VP, Tech Control Engineering

The VP, Tech Control Engineering role is a highly collaborative role. The incumbent will be responsible for working with partners in Risk, Cyber Security and Audit to help design and implement infrastructure configurations that meet our emerging tech control standards and align with our corporate IT risk & governance posture.

This individual will have influence across all engineering deliverables on prem, spanning compute, database and storage. They will be responsible for ensuring that all technical controls are met and to monitor & address deviations within our (emerging) SLAs. You will be responsible for gatekeeping all audits, ensuring that all evidence is provided from reliable, authoritive sources and is delivered within agreed timelines.

This is a senior Individual Contributor role who will manage most efforts through a matrixed organization – adhering to our principal of functionally aligned infrastructure engineering teams.

Responsibilities :

• Work with risk and security to understand the corporate risk posture, the tech control framework and the underlying controls.
• For each service basis work with the control owners and engineers to agree technical implementations of the controls, how control compliance will be logged and how defects will be reported and remediated.
• Work with control owners to agree recertification schedules and work with the SMEs to re-certify each control, each year within the allotted time
• Ensure all control complaint infrastructure patterns are created by engineering teams and are easy for application teams to consume; Available as either Service Now catalogue items or via IaC (Terraform) patterns depending on platform.
• Run point for all audits on behalf of infrastructure engineering, responsible for coordinating with the team to gather evidence, configuration standards and other data and deliver them to audit within SLA
• Keep track of all audit requests and formalize a process to provide evidence of delivery.
• Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables / drives business strategy
• Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery
• Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements :

Core Competencies :

Pay Range : $133,125-$221,875 / year

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq : LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace.

LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institution, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 million Americans.

The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business.

LPL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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