Principal Solution Architect

Join to apply for the Principal Solution Architect role at LPL FinancialWhat if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence.Job Overview:The Principal Solution Architect is responsible for the leadership, analysis, design, and execution of Enterprise Solution Architecture (ESA) initiatives. This role supports our extraordinary company growth projections and digital experiences vision, while also managing short-term projects with defined deliverables.Responsibilities:Lead enterprise solution architecture modeling and design by collaborating with cross-domain architects and leadership to deliver domain-driven, scalable, service-based solutions.Partner with engineering teams to collaborate and drive design and architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.Implement and enforce architecture governance to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality across solutions.Develop blueprint architectures, including multi-year transition plans and recommendations to drive transformation and modernization for enterprise-wide initiatives.Collaborate with business, product, and technology teams early in the product lifecycle to infuse end-to-end architecture thinking—covering both functional and non-functional aspects.Craft high-level designs early in the lifecycle and elaborate them into detailed designs as conversations progress.Partner with Lean Portfolio Management to provide a high-level vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives.Assist the Agile Program Management Office (ACDC) in identifying and designing development value streams.Participate in strategy development for building and maintaining the modern architectural runway via Enabler Epics.Promote Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevSecOps capabilities.Facilitate reuse of code, components, and proven patterns supporting modern architecture.Deliver architecture aligned with Enterprise Architecture standards and advocate for models and patterns that guide solution decisions.Define the scope of projects in collaboration with senior management.Create detailed work plans and schedules for project completion.Determine resources required to complete projects and allocate them effectively.Coordinate and manage financial operations related to projects, including payment processing, ACH transactions, and money movement.Ensure compliance and alignment with financial functions such as corporate actions, retirement workflows, and banking standards.Requirements:8+ years of hands-on design and implementation experience in IT.3+ years of experience in application development, middleware, database management or operations, security, or integration.Prior cloud experience.Previous experience as a Solution Architect.Strong understanding of financial markets, especially wealth management.Strong understanding of financial markets, especially wealth management, banking and or Fintech.Experience with domain-driven architecture, microservices, and API design.Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, Glue, Lambda, and RDS.Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka or Kinesis.Proficiency in defining current and future state architecture models.In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud platform, with strong understanding of AWS security best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.Experience migrating monolithic on-prem applications to the cloud using refactoring, re-architecting, and re-platforming approaches, including 12-factor methodology.Familiarity with DevOps tools, automated deployments, and containerization.Coordinate and manage financial operations related to projects, including payment processing, ACH transactions, and money movement, with experience in cash management workflows, banking or lending solutions (such as securities-based lending or insured cash accounts), corporate actions, or move money operations.Excellent communication skills to translate business problems into technical solutions.Ability to consult with customers to solve business problems by adapting current technology or leveraging emerging technologies for competitive advantage.Skilled in conducting demonstrations and presentations to executive management of prototypes and proof-of-concepts.Understanding of agile methods (SAFe) and the ability to support agile product teams by advising on opportunities, impact, and risks, while managing technical and architectural debt.Core Competencies:Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principlesOutstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skillsHas knowledge of compliance. Materially contributes to ensuring work is compliant with regulatory and internal standards.Has knowledge of prioritization. Is able to prioritize own work and to contribute to the prioritization of work of the team.Has knowledge of solution architecture and contributes to process.Preferences:AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectPay Range: $151,388-$252,313/yearCompany Overview:LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S.LPL Financial is an equal opportunities employer. EOE. #J-18808-Ljbffr