Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead

LPL Financial

Principal Engineer leading cloud strategy and technical architecture for LPL Financial's Cloud Center of Excellence. Setting multi-year technical strategies for cloud tooling and infrastructure.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeFort Mill • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $149,350 - $248,848 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and evolve the multi-year technical strategy for cloud tooling, IaC, and developer experience across all five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the five Foundations pods (Security & Governance, FinOps, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring)
Define and govern Terraform code architecture standards: module library curation, versioning, deprecation, contribution patterns, and module quality gates
Architect and operate the self-service infrastructure vending platform, including Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), Service Catalog, golden paths, and Internal Developer Platform (Backstage-class) integration
Establish enterprise standards for IaC quality: pre-commit, policy-as-code (Sentinel / OPA), security and compliance scanning, drift detection, and automated remediation
Act as the primary technical liaison between CCOE and Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Application Engineering
Drive engineering excellence across CCOE: code review standards, pairing culture, on-call quality, post-incident review discipline, and continuous improvement of the developer experience
Embed agentic AI capabilities into the team's engineering practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, MCP servers, agentic IaC and review workflows) and into the platform's self-service experience for internal customers
Drive the technical strategy for embedding agentic AI capabilities into the self-service platform: agentic IaC generation, automated PR review, MCP-backed agents for internal data, and conversational interfaces that let internal customers self-serve common requests
Operate as a senior individual contributor with dotted-line technical leadership to all five CCOE teams (Foundations, Platforms, Containers, Support, Delivery) and the five Foundations pods (Security & Governance, FinOps, Functional Design Engineering & Strategy, Network Engineering, Monitoring) — leading cloud strategy and technical architecture across the organization
Mentor and uplift senior engineers, AVPs, and VPs across CCOE through code review, design partnership, technical pairing, architecture guidance, and certification-path technical advice per the CCOE certification matrix — acting as a force multiplier without direct reports
Personally participate in 24x7 on-call rotations as senior incident commander and cross-CCOE technical escalation point

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of progressive technical experience including 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering leadership
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent work experience)
5+ years of hands-on production AWS at scale in a multi-account landing zone, with 4+ years of authoring production Terraform in a private module ecosystem delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions
5+ years experience operating as a senior individual contributor (Principal Engineer or equivalent), influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority — including hiring-loop technical interviewing, architecture review participation, and technical mentorship of staff and senior engineers
Experience leading and personally participating in 24x7 production on-call rotations in a fast-paced, security-conscious, regulated environment (financial services strongly preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

401K matching
Health benefits
Employee stock options
Paid time off
Volunteer time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud toolingInfrastructure as Code (IaC)TerraformAWSGitHub Actionspolicy-as-codesecurity scanningdrift detectionautomated remediationagentic AI

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationinfluence without authoritycontinuous improvementcode reviewdesign partnershiptechnical pairingincident managementcommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in EngineeringCCOE certification matrix