AVP, Lead Data Engineer

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad.

Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

Job Overview

We are seeking talented and experienced Data Engineers to join the Investor Data Technology team. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a platform serving ~4 million users.

The team is responsible for delivering high‑quality, scalable and reliable data solutions to consumers. The ideal candidate is expected to have hands‑on experience, thrives in a fast‑paced environment and is passionate about building and maintaining data‑driven platforms while collaborating with a motivated and high‑performing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hands‑on development efforts while mentoring and inspiring engineers to design, build, deploy and support high‑quality software and data solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews and code reviews, ensuring alignment with LPL SDLC standards and best practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional partners including Product, Architecture, Operations, QA, Release Management and DevOps to deliver cohesive, end‑to‑end solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs, ETL pipelines, and cloud‑native services.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation covering system architecture, components, and workflows.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance existing systems to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Actively participate in and help drive day‑to‑day POD activities using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience designing and developing ETL processes and data pipelines on AWS, utilizing Glue, S3, Python, RDS/Aurora, Athena and Event Bridge.10+ years of software development experience building scalable APIs and services using .NET/C#, Angular and AWS.
• Strong experience with Kafka and implementing event‑driven architectures.
• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure automation and data lake development is a plus.
• 8+ years of experience with source control and CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as GitHub, TeamCity, Octopus, Jenkins or Jules.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a team‑oriented environment.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Copilot Chat, Cursor, or similar technologies.

Core Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, estimation, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Proven capability to plan, prioritize and execute effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
• Team‑oriented mindset with a strong commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, wealth management, or asset management.
• Familiarity with external‑facing platforms and customer‑centric systems.
• AWS Certifications (Developer Associate and/or Solutions Architect Associate).
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented programming (OOP) principles, data modeling, and industry‑standard design patterns and frameworks.

LPL Global Business Services, LLP - PRIVACY POLICY