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Job Overview
The leader of the Advisor Experience Rapid Response Team is an experienced technology leader accountable for ensuring the stability, resiliency, and operational excellence of LPL’s Advisor Platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations — driving near-term reliability and stability.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, systems-thinking leader who thrives in complex environments, can mobilize teams around urgent priorities, and brings both discipline and innovation to enterprise-scale stability challenges.
Responsibilities:
Oversee the Advisor Experience Rapid Response Team (RRT) — an elite “tiger team” of senior engineers dedicated to resolving production incidents, advisor escalations, and other high-priority stability issues.
Partner with business and operations leaders to translate advisor impact into actionable technology improvements.
Provide leadership to deliver tactical production changes to remediate root causes of incidents.
Establish OKRs and measurements of success related to overall Advisor Experience resilience and Rapid Response Team effectiveness.
What are we looking for?
We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.
Requirements:
10+ years of progressive experience in technology leadership roles, with significant experience in enterprise-scale platform operations or engineering.
5+ years managing high-severity incidents and rapid response efforts.
Core Competencies:
Leadership Under Pressure: Ability to make quick, informed decisions during high-stakes incidents.
Systems Thinking: Understands interdependencies across platforms and anticipates downstream impacts.
Collaboration: Works effectively across engineering, operations, and business teams.
Problem-Solving: Skilled at root cause analysis and implementing sustainable fixes.
Continuous Improvement: Drives process enhancements and automation to reduce future incidents.
Preferences:
Financial Services Experience or wealth management technology.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, ITIL, or SRE-related certifications (preferred).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
Managing executive updates during outages.
Proven track record introducing modern reliability practices (e.g., chaos engineering).
Pay Range:
$155,288-$258,813/yearCompany Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity
At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.
Why LPL?
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Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
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