AVP, Team Lead - Web App

Company: LPL Financial
Location: Monroe
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!LPL Financial is one of the nation's leading financial services companies and a publicly traded company under ticker symbol LPLA. We support over 18,000 financial professionals-including over 14,000 independent advisors, more than 700 financial institutions, and over 4,000 institutional clearing and technology subscribers. We enable advisors to focus on their clients by reducing the complexity of running their practice and we support their business by offering enabling technology, comprehensive clearing and compliance services, practice management programs and training, and independent research. At LPL, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients. And Technology is at the center of our mission.Job Overview:At LPL Financial we consider it our mission to take care of our advisors so they can take care of their client. Joining as an AVP Team Lead - Web App, Investor Team, which is within the Technology business unit, you will be responsible for planning, directing projects to help design, build and maintain the sustainable, scalable capabilities that support delivery of the highest standards of software products, processes. This role will also include responsibility for leading special projects to drive more quality, scope, and scale in the offering.Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction.
• Collaborate with other Development teams, Enterprise Architecture and Support teams to design, develop, test and maintain the various platforms and their integration with other systems
• Exposure to API policies, frameworks/components, error handling, transaction tracing
• Setup security models and policies for consumers and producers of API and catalog assets
• Work across various platforms and the associated stakeholders/business users
• Understand and follow company policies surrounding data governance, security, and API development
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvements and prepare documentation outlining platform road map.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance existing systems.
• Communicate with technical and non-technical groups on a regular basis as part of product/project support.
• Work collaboratively with a geographically dispersed teamWhat 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:
  • 10-12 years of Enterprise Application/SPA development experience.
  • Strong Angular 7, 8, 9 experience for trading application/brokerage application
  • Extensive knowledge in developing applications in a single page (SPAs) using various JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Flutter
  • Experience in working with RESTFUL Web Services and implementing RESTFUL API's.
  • Experience in applying the latest software development approaches including MVC, event driven applications using AJAX, Object Oriented (OO) JavaScript, JSON and XML.
  • Experience in front - end tooling workflows Node JS (NPM), Bower, Gulp and Grunt
  • Experience working with testing tools like Jasmine, Selenium, Jest, Firebug, Protractor, Chrome/safari web inspectors and IE Developer Toolbar.
  • Excellent experience in GitHub, SVN and ClearCase for source code management and for version control.
  • 5+ years of .NET, JavaScript developmentCore Competencies:
    • Strong understanding and experienced with all the phases of SDLC and agile development methodologies including SCRUM, involved in daily SCRUM meetings to keep
    • Experience with SDLC development processes (Waterfall, Agile, Lean) and tools (e.g., Jira, Git)
    • Experience with Service Oriented Architectures
    • Excellent skills of designing and developing the micro APIs and consuming the APIs.
    • Must have experience integrating the system over HTTP, JMS or other distributed technologies.
    • Expertise with MS SQL. Should be able to write efficient queries in MS SQL Should be well verse with query troubleshooting and optimization tools available in SQL Server platform.
    • Experience working with remote teams and contingent workers/SOW
    • Experience working with Java or Microsoft Technologies like C#, .Net framework tools.
    • Experience working with MS Visio, word and Excel.Preferences:
      • Experience in Database Technologies including RDMBS like Oracle, MySQL and NoSQL like MongoDB.
      • Good Understanding of Document Object Model (DOM) and DOM Functions.
      • Experience of working on CSS Preprocessors like LESS and SASS.
      • Development skills/tools: Java EE, Eclipse, Unix Shell Scripting, ANT, Jython/Python, .Net, PowerShellWhy LPL?At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation's leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees. We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.Want to hear from our employees on what it's like to work at LPL? Watch this!We take social responsibility seriously. Learn more hereWant to see info on our benefits? Learn more hereJoin 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 (800) 877-7210.

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