Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead

Job Overview:

As the Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead, you set and drive the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for LPL's Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE). This is a senior individual contributor role — not a team or pod leader — that leads cloud strategy and technical architecture across CCOE, with a dotted line 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) so that strategy and technical architecture stay aligned across the organization. You own the engineering direction for our cloud tooling, Terraform code architecture, and self-service platform, and you are the primary technical liaison between CCOE and Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, and Application Engineering. LPL is an AWS-first CCOE: a multi-account landing zone with 100+ private reusable Terraform modules that enab...