AVP, Technology Program Manager – M&A & Integrations

 

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:

 

This role serves as the technology lead for advisor affiliate acquisitions and integrations, partnering closely with Corporate Development, Integration Management, Product, Technology, and Project Management teams to drive successful deal execution. The individual will lead technology due diligence, governance, risk assessment, solution design, sign-off, and end-to-end delivery for L&S and advisor affiliate acquisitions.

The position is highly client-facing, requiring regular interaction with advisors and partner firms to understand their technology environments and develop integration strategies tailored to each acquisition. Responsibilities include conducting site surveys, assessing infrastructure readiness, identifying risks, and coordinating implementation activities through post-conversion support.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of technology leadership, program delivery, and stakeholder management experience, with exposure to M&A, acquisitions, onboarding, or complex integration programs. While they do not need to be a deep technical expert, they should be comfortable discussing infrastructure and workplace technologies, including networks, telephony, circuits, unified communications, and end-user technology environments.

 

Responsibilities:

• Be a primary technology point of contact for Advisor Affiliate acquisitions and participate in due diligence, financial planning, orchestration, execution, governance, signoff, and support of technology solutions of incoming partner institutions, and advisors.
• Understand requirements and concerns, navigate it to the right owners like infrastructure, network, escalate issues to domain accountable and drive commitments and resolutions from product owners and domain accountable.
• Responsible for managing the intake and planning of resources for the L&S pipeline including funding, hardware, and software.
• Perform site visits to perform advanced discovery with infosec, network and infrastructure to mitigate risk and avoid tech debt. Serve as technical lead onsite during high risk/complexity conversions.
• Definition of high-level scope, dependencies, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs for every acquisition.
• Provide inputs into a tuned repeatable process to optimize processes to increase efficiency and throughput.
• Assist in the management of the initiatives through the establishment of metrics and promote high degree of transparency on execution.
• Create best-in-class reports and prepare presentations related to LPL’s strategic plays and growth initiatives that are SVP+, C-Suite, and Board ready.
• Develop sound understanding of LPL technology ecosystems including advisor and investor facing products/platforms and infrastructure dependencies.
• Develop sound understanding of partner institution technologies and their integrations with LPL applications, infrastructure dependencies and capability requirements.
• Drive decision-making and demonstrate persistence in raising issues to the proper levels for attention and driving transparency at all levels surrounding program execution.
• Coach and mentor workstream team members with direct and indirect responsibility to deliver on the objectives.
• Review operational reports periodically with the business teams and drive continuous improvements to strengthen the partnerships.

 

What does your success look like in the first 90 days?

• Meet with key product & technology, and advisor affiliate stakeholders and establish relationships.
• Shadow advisor affiliate technology leaders, participate in discovery and design activities, assume responsibility for assigned site visits and deals.
• Familiarize and internalize LPL technical standards associated with advisor affiliate locations and personnel

 

What are we looking for?

We want visionary leaders who collaborate effectively across the departments and obsess on delivering delightful experiences at scale for our Advisors and Investors. We are looking for people who thrive in a demanding environment, are client-focused, collaborative, and able to execute in a way that encourages creativity, continuous improvement and a collaborate spirit.

 

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience leading complex technology programs, infrastructure initiatives, technology integrations, and/or enterprise transformation efforts.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience serving as a technology lead, program lead, or integration lead responsible for planning, governance, risk management, and end-to-end delivery across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading technology due diligence, integration planning, conversion activities, or large-scale onboarding programs associated with acquisitions, mergers, institutional transitions, or enterprise technology transformations.
• Working knowledge of enterprise technology environments, including networking, telecommunications/telephony, infrastructure, end-user computing, messaging platforms, and information security considerations.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent technology initiatives with responsibility for scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, issue resolution, and stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to travel 25-50% within the United States to support technology discovery, site assessments, advisor onboarding, and integration activities.

 

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience presenting technology plans, risks, dependencies, status updates, and recommendations to senior leaders, executives, clients, or external partners.
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of desktop infrastructure, networking, messaging, and Finance technology and platforms.
• Proven experience on advisor and investor facing technologies and platforms.
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology programs involving multiple teams.
• Empathetic leader who is an active listener and effective collaborator
• Ability to build and foster enduring relationships with clients and cross functional teams.
• Data driven leader who establishes OKRs, KPIs and inspires the delivery of customer centric solutions.
• Excellent people leader who leads by example and has demonstrated experience building highly effective teams.
• The ability to work in a cross-functional team and drive outcomes without having direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to evaluate business opportunities and evaluate results against established objectives.
• Actively anticipates, identifies, and manages risks within position scope and at the company.
• Expert consensus-builder who drives change across initiatives within and outside direct accountability and evaluates solutions to the most complex business challenges.

Pay Range:

$111,240.00 - $185,400.00Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company 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.

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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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