Platform Principle Tech Lead

LPL Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Fort Mill, SCCharlotte, NC
Salary
$155,300–$258,800 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $194k
This role $207k
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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$217,862 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $207k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

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About LPL Financial

LPL Financial is the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States, providing brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial institutions. Industry: Financial Services & Wealth Management

LPL Financial currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $140,959–$234,882 across 54 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Platform Principle Tech Lead

The Platform Principle Tech Lead leads technical initiatives for Move Money capabilities, focusing on critical workflows such as Checks, ACH, Journals, Wires, and Complex Retirement transactions. This role involves driving platform modernization, establishing engineering standards, mentoring talent, and collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver scalable solutions. The candidate will work with the iPipeline IFS platform while utilizing Microsoft technologies, SQL Server databases, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures. Preferred skills include experience with .NET, JavaScript, Git, Visual Studio, and AWS services. Additionally, the role involves integrating with financial technology solutions like BetaNXT or Bottomline to solve complex payment processing and money movement challenges. The position requires a leader capable of managing enterprise technology ecosystems while ensuring high performance, reliability, and security for advisor-facing financial tools.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design, development, and enhancement of Move Money workflows including Checks, ACH, Wires, and Journals.
  • Provide technical leadership for integrations across platforms, vendors, and enterprise payment systems.
  • Establish engineering standards, architecture patterns, coding best practices, and software development processes.
  • Mentor and develop engineering teams through coaching, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
  • Translate business requirements from stakeholders into scalable technical solutions.
  • Drive the execution of strategic technology initiatives and platform modernization efforts.
  • Support the adoption of cloud-native architectures, automation, and CI/CD practices.
  • Monitor platform performance, reliability, and scalability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience implementing, supporting, or leading development efforts on the iPipeline IFS platform.
  • 5+ years of experience in technical leadership, solution delivery, or software engineering leadership roles.
  • Experience leading technical teams and collaborating across engineering, product, business, and operational stakeholders.
  • Experience working with Microsoft technologies, SQL Server databases, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise application development frameworks.
  • Experience designing and developing service-oriented architectures and applying software design, refactoring, and testing best practices.
  • 8+ years of experience working with .NET, JavaScript, SQL Server, Git, Visual Studio, and related technologies (preferred).
  • Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application architectures (preferred).
  • Experience supporting payment processing, money movement, financial services, or workflow automation platforms (preferred).

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