VP, Functional Design Engineering

Job summary

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees. If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL*** invites you to apply today.

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• At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights.
• You are both a people leader for a small, senior team across the US and LPL's India GCC and a hands-on senior engineer who produces reference patterns, code, and proof-of-concept builds when ambiguity is highest.
• 5+ years of hands-on production AWS at scale in a multi-account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions
• 5+ years experience as a direct people manager of engineering teams of 5+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, compensation, and difficult personnel decisions
• 5+ years experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on-call rotations in a fast-paced, security-conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred)
• Core Competencies:
• Operates as the credible "translator" between architects and engineers — equally at home in both rooms
• Strong systems-thinking across security, network, container, data, finance, and developer experience before recommending a path
• Bias for shipping reference patterns and code — not slideware
• Calm, opinionated, and evidence-driven in design conversations
• Player-coach who is comfortable in code reviews, architecture sessions, and people 1:1s in the same day
• Continuous learner, especially in cloud-native, IaC, platform engineering, and applied AI

Responsibilities

• At LPL, you'll partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and FinOps to translate big-picture designs into opinionated, well-architected reference patterns that engineers actually build.
• Take high-level designs from architects and produce detailed, opinionated, build-ready engineering specifications aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and LPL standards
• Define and curate the cross-CCOE reference pattern library: domain-tagged Terraform module bundles, reference architectures, anti-patterns, and architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Partner closely with the Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead so that tooling, IaC, and self-service platform strategy stay aligned with enterprise design direction
• Hands-on contribute to reference patterns, Terraform modules, and proof-of-concept builds, especially in the highest-ambiguity areas where engineering is still discovering the right answer
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a globally distributed team of senior cloud engineers across LPL's US offices and India Global Capability Center (GCC)
• Own all people-management
• for the pod including hiring, onboarding, weekly 1:1s, performance management, compensation planning, career development, and certification-path execution per the CCOE certification matrix
• Operate as a player-coach: spend meaningful time hands-on in Terraform code, design reviews, peer reviews, and incident response while leading people and delivery
• Lead and personally participate in 24x7 on-call rotations as senior incident commander and technical escalation point for the pod
• Champion AWS Well-Architected Framework adoption across all six pillars and drive continuous improvement against operational, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability outcomes
• Contribute to and curate the private Terraform module library that powers self-service infrastructure for application teams, including module standards, versioning, deprecation, and contribution patterns

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