VP, Principal Data Engineer

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: LPL Financial is seeking a highly accomplished VP, Principal Data Engineer to drive the modernization of the investor experience across the Reporting, Statements and Letters platforms, serving more than 2.4 million investors.

This role will provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership in designing, building, and modernizing enterprise-scale data platforms. The VP, Principal Data Engineer will architect high-performance data pipelines, real-time streaming solutions, and cloud-native data services while establishing engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that support business growth and operational excellence. Working closely with business leaders, architects, product teams, and engineering organizations, this individual will influence technical strategy, accelerate cloud transformation initiatives, and deliver innovative data capabilities that enhance the investor experience.

Lead the delivery of scalable, high-quality, and cost-effective data solutions aligned to business priorities. Own end-to-end execution across engineering pods, balancing employee and vendor resource