Head of Technology, India

Key Responsibilities

Lead world-class technology delivery

• Oversee delivery of enterprise grade technology solutions across LPL’s business lines including advisory platforms, trading systems, client-facing applications, and data platforms.
• Establish strong operating rhythms between onshore and offshore teams to ensure seamless collaboration, shared accountability, and predictable outcomes.
• Implement risk frameworks for delivery disruption, including redundancy, resilience testing, and disaster recovery programs.
• Ensure service levels for uptime, reliability, and customer experience meet or exceed global benchmarks

Attract and retain top technology talent

• Build a strong employer brand for LPL India to attract top tier technology talent in cloud engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, and cybersecurity.
• Foster a diverse, inclusive, and high-performance culture with recognition frameworks and leadership development pipelines.
• Drive succession planning for critical roles, ensuring resilience in leadership and delivery capabilities.

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Define and execute a multi year technology roadmap aligned with LPL’s vision of being the most trusted leader in wealth advisory technology.
• Champion Innovation
• Keep LPL abreast with industry trends and advancements in wealth advisory technology.
• Provide strategic direction for all technology and product initiatives, ensuring alignment with global standards and local market needs.
• Collaborate with LPL’s global teams to ensure India is a strategic location for next-generation products.

Maintain High Standards Of Data Integrity And Security

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technology and product-related risks, including cybersecurity threats, data privacy concerns, and regulatory compliance, ensuring robust governance frameworks are in place.
• Establish and enforce best practices for security by design and operational resilience.

Drive a Culture Of Continuous Improvement

• Create and execute strategic programs for process improvement and cost optimization.
• Integrate automation best practices from industry and accelerate adoption of agile development methodologies

Financial Stewardship And Resource Optimization

• Manage comprehensive budgets for technology and product development.
• Ensuring financial discipline and implement cost-optimization levers such as cloud cost governance, vendor negotiations, and right-shoring strategies.
• Ensure maximum return on investment (ROI) through disciplined portfolio management and alignment of spend with business priorities.

Qualification & Requirements

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.

Sector

• Proven global experience within financial services, wealth management, or adjacent sectors, ideally with exposure to technology led organizations.
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale technology delivery functions that are directly tied to business outcomes, innovation, and client value.
• Appreciation of the regulatory, security, and compliance landscape in financial services.

Team Leadership

• Experienced in leading 2000+ member technology-oriented teams across products with onshore-offshore interaction models
• Inspiring people leader, able to attract and build high performing teams and institute a high-performance culture
• Strong track record in establishing a high-performance culture, driving accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Skilled at scaling organizations by building self sustaining leadership teams and future ready talent pipelines.

Functional Expertise

• End to end ownership experience of product and technology roadmaps: from conceptualization and design through build, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Proven ability to deliver large scale, mission critical systems with measurable impact on business performance, customer experience, and operational resilience.
• Skilled at embedding governance, risk management, and compliance practices seamlessly into the delivery model.

Technology Depth

• Strong expertise in new age technology products, including digital platforms and modern architectures.
• Building and managing scalable, high-quality data models; enabling data driven decision making and personalization at scale.
• Solid grounding in data security and privacy protocols, with hands-on experience embedding contemporary cybersecurity practices into product development.
• Track record of driving productivity and efficiency through automation, AI, and intelligent practices

Global Experience

• Experience working in the US market or within an MNC headquartered in the US, with a strong understanding of global organizational dynamics.
• Proven ability to operate across multiple geographies, leading diverse, multicultural teams and delivering solutions for global stakeholders.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to influence and align global stakeholders across business, product, and technology.
• Strong strategic leadership skills with a focus on clarity in goals, prioritization of initiatives, and alignment with business objectives.
• A collaborative leader who builds trusted partnerships across functions and fosters seamless onshore offshore integration.

Benefits

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