This role pays more than
87%
of similar roles. Most pay
$177,075–$211,342
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$228k
versus about
$194k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
As VP, Lead Software Engineer, you will lead a high-performing engineering organization to drive the modernization and strategic evolution of critical Wealth Management and Brokerage platforms. You will oversee more than 20 application teams, managing large-scale transformation initiatives for Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending functions. Your daily responsibilities include defining multi-year technology roadmaps, establishing architecture standards for scalability and security, and championing AI-assisted software development practices across the lifecycle. You will build cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures while overseeing DevSecOps, CI/CD, and quality engineering. The role requires expertise in .NET, Angular, AWS, Kafka, microservices, and data platforms like Snowflake. You will solve complex technical challenges by transitioning legacy systems into modern, resilient infrastructures to support essential business operations within the financial services sector.
Kong Gateway
API Management
Kafka
EKS
AWS
Azure
Microservices
Service Mesh
DevSecOps
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Site Reliability Engineering
Agile
Event-Driven Architecture
Distributed Systems