VP, Cloud Delivery Architect

**Where Ambition Meets Innovation** Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. **Job Overview:** Seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, which allows them to be considered a subject matter expert and lead for designing reliable, scalable, and secure AWS technical infrastructure solutions. This individual must be able to work in a fast paced, start up like environment, identify requirements and facilitate implementation, while following appropriate change control and release processes. **Responsibilities:** - Collaborate with customers/project teams to understand business requirements and capture technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design - Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform - Be a subject matter expert in AWS security; identity access management; users, roles, policies, permissions, etc. - Be a subject matter expert and be able to provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services: focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc. - Define and develop new cloud Reference Architectures - Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams and engineering groups - Contributes to policies, procedures, and standards - Collaborate with project team members as part of an agile well-formed team - Utilize Jira consistently to track work and provide project status and updates - Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments - Performs capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments. - Recommends changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance. - Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains - Participates in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics - Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward **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:** - 8+ years of experience of cloud architecture design - 7+ years hands on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications - 7+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation - 7+ years of experience developing / documenting build specifications using Excel - 7+ years of designing, and developing utilizing common AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, Any RDS, Streaming (Kafka), Messaging (SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis, Ignite, Redshift, Elasticache), NO-SQL and API Gateway **Core Competencies:** - Hands on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform - Experience utilizing AWS AMI’s with Amazon Linux and Windows Server - Experience connecting On-Prem Active Directory with AWS services - Experience with AWS Network protocols and diagnosing connection-related issues - Firewalls Rule Management, Port Translation, Quality of Service, and Network Protocol Routing **Preferences:** - Bachelor’s Degree - Certifications are a plus (AWS Solutions Architect) - Network Security Best Practices and Implementation across diverse technologies and hardware infrastructure. - SSL Certificate Requests, Installation and PKI Management - Technical Project Management experience a plus ##…