Job Overview:
The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Release Train Engineer (RTE) & Program Manager, will serve as a strategic leader within the Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) organization. This role combines Agile leadership with Technical Program Management expertise to drive enterprise-scale delivery of technology initiatives. The AVP will partner closely with Senior Vice Presidents and cross-functional stakeholders to align roadmaps with business priorities, provide transparent executive-level status reporting, and coach delivery teams to achieve operational excellence.
Release Train Engineer (RTE) Leadership:
Facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) events (e.g., PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, Scrum of Scrums), ensuring alignment to organizational goals.
Drive continuous improvement across delivery teams, embedding Agile best practices in Technology Infrastructure & Operations.
Remove delivery impediments by coordinating across teams, leaders, and external stakeholders.
Serve as a servant leader and coach for ART members, leaders, and stakeholders.
Program Management & Execution:
Manage large-scale programs and portfolio deliverables, ensuring scope, timeline, budget, and risk are effectively governed.
Partner with SVPs and senior stakeholders to develop and maintain program roadmaps that align with strategic objectives.
Deliver clear and concise executive-level updates, dashboards, and status reporting for technology and business leadership.
Coordinate across multiple initiatives to ensure dependencies are understood, managed, and communicated effectively.
Understand how individual projects affect the program & portfolio and exercise judgement in raising issues and risks to the program/portfolio level
Monitor team velocity and burn rates, identifying trends and areas for improvement.
Adherence to System Development Lifecycle and SDLC artifact compliance.
Coordinate with Quality Assurance teams to ensure successful testing and deployment of new features
Provide status updates to stakeholders throughout the software delivery lifecycle
Facilitates agile ceremonies: Pre-PI Planning, retrospectives, refinement and PI Events
Understands and uses a variety of techniques to continuously optimize ceremonies and team participation and engagement
Identifies and helps to remove impediments, escalates impediments to the product and tech manager, recommends ways to resolve impediments, and influences leadership to take action on these recommendations
Helps team inspect and adapt process through retrospectives, data / metrics tracking, and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow
Track Epics, Features, Stores and ensure team is using the tools for updates. Maintain Governance Dashboard always on compliance
Coordinate with release’s, follow up on change’s approvals, take ownership on release communications and support production deployment
We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
8+ years of experience in program management, release management, or Agile delivery leadership within a large enterprise, preferably financial services.
Core Competencies:
Proven experience facilitating Agile Release Trains (SAFe RTE certification strongly preferred).
Strong working knowledge of JIRA, JQL, Confluence or similar tools and has advanced Excel skills
Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and provide insight to SVPs and C-level leaders.
Relationship builder with ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
Coaches the Agile delivery team on Agile mindset and methodologies, and relevant processes. Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
Has knowledge of prioritization. Is able to prioritize own work and to contribute to the prioritization of work of the team.
Guides team members in understanding their role. Helps team identify and resolve conflicts, with help from others. Helps the team break down and deliver incremental work.
Effectively partners / coaches Product Owner and Dev Team to deliver value. Tracks progress and visualizes work by measuring progress and velocity through defined processes including generating a burn-down chart.
Partner internally and externally to make effective decisions solving complex problems, escalating high priority issues or impediments as appropriate, monitoring progress and results, and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
Be proactive and exercise initiative in identifying, tracking, and removing impediments to program success.
Preferences:
MBA or master’s degree
Experience handling Hybrid team of Multi vendors and complex projects.
PMP, PgMP, SAFe certifications
Pay Range:
$110,588-$184,313/yearCompany 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 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institution, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 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.
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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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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