Principal, Solution Architect

Principal Architect

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Job Overview:

LPL Financial is seeking a Principal Architect to provide architecture leadership for the Account Lifecycle Management (ALM) domain, with a primary focus on data architecture, domain modeling, and lifecycle-aligned platform capabilities.

Account Lifecycle Management (also referred to as Client Lifecycle Management) encompasses the end-to-end management of a client and account relationship—from initial acquisition and onboarding, through active usage and servicing, ongoing monitoring and compliance, retention, and ultimately compliant offboarding.

In this role, you will define target-state architectures, guide solution designs, and partner closely with product, engineering, data, and risk stakeholders to ensure ALM capabilities are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned to business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Domain Architecture Leadership

• Serve as an architecture leader for the Account Lifecycle Management domain, defining how systems, data, and integrations support each stage of the lifecycle.
• Establish and evolve target-state architectures, reference models, and transition roadmaps that balance near-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
• Provide architectural guidance across initiatives spanning onboarding, servicing, compliance, lifecycle events, and account closure.

Data Architecture & Information Modeling (Primary Focus)

• Define and govern canonical data models, lifecycle entities, and key events that represent client and account state changes.
• Establish architectural direction for:
• Data ownership and system-of-record decisions
• Data flows, contracts, and integration patterns between ALM capabilities and adjacent domains
• Data lineage, quality, retention, and auditability
• Partner with engineering and data teams to ensure architectures support regulatory expectations, operational transparency, and analytics needs.

Solution Architecture & Delivery Enablement

• Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear architectural guidance, including reference architectures, design patterns, and decision records.
• Review and influence solution designs to ensure alignment with domain architecture, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Enable delivery teams by providing guardrails that accelerate execution while reducing architectural risk and rework.

Risk, Compliance, and Operational Readiness

• Embed architectural patterns that support risk management, regulatory compliance, and auditability throughout the account lifecycle.
• Ensure designs account for operational needs such as resiliency, observability, scalability, and supportability in production environments.

Collaboration & Stakeholders

• Partner with product leaders, engineering teams, and delivery organizations responsible for ALM capabilities.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture peers across domains and shared platforms.
• Engage with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure architectural decisions meet regulatory and governance expectations.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

What 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+ years of experience in architecture roles (e.g., domain, enterprise, solution, or data architecture) within complex technology environments.
• 5+ years strong expertise in data architecture, including:
• Conceptual and logical data modeling
• Integration and data contract design
• Data governance concepts such as lineage, quality, stewardship, and retention
• 5+ years experience designing architectures that support end-to-end lifecycle workflows (e.g., onboarding, servicing, compliance, and closure).
• 5+ years experience influencing without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Core Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate architectural intent, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

Preferences:

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries, particularly with client or account lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with domain-oriented architecture approaches (e.g., bounded contexts, event-driven patterns).
• Experience balancing business agility with regulatory, risk, and operational constraints.

What Success Looks Like:

• Clear, well-adopted ALM domain architecture that enables consistent design decisions across teams.
• Shared data models and lifecycle patterns that reduce duplication and improve integration quality.
• Faster, more predictable delivery outcomes due to strong architectural guardrails and early engagement.
• Improved alignment between business outcomes, regulatory needs, and technology execution.

Pay Range:

$155,942.00 - $259,869.00 Actual 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, 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

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.

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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?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team.
• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential.
• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients.
• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact.
• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same.
• Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home.

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:

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