AVP, Disaster Recovery

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Job Overview The AVP, Disaster Recovery is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of LPL Financial's enterprise disaster recovery program. This role provides leadership across technology and business teams to ensure critical systems, applications, infrastructure, and data can be recovered within established business and regulatory requirements.

The AVP will lead enterprise recovery strategy, testing, risk identification, governance, and organizational readiness while partnering with infrastructure, application development, security, business continuity, risk, and business teams. This role also provides leadership during significant technology disruptions and communicates disaster recovery capabilities, risks, and performance to senior stakeholders.

What are we looking for? 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.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of LPL Financial's enterprise disaster recovery program and strategy.
• Establish disaster recovery standards, governance, testing practices, and recovery expectations aligned with business objectives, technology strategy, and regulatory requirements.
• Review business impact analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments to identify critical systems and applications and establish appropriate RTO and RPO requirements.
• Lead the enterprise DR testing program, including tabletop exercises, functional recovery tests, technical exercises, and large-scale simulations.
• Assess DR testing results, identify material risks and recovery gaps, establish remediation priorities, and drive accountability for resolution.
• Partner with technology architecture, infrastructure, application development, security, risk, and business teams to incorporate recoverability and resilience into technology solutions.
• Provide oversight and direction for DR capabilities spanning data centers, cloud environments, applications, infrastructure, databases, networks, and third-party services.
• Provide leadership during significant outages and disaster events, coordinating recovery activities, priorities, escalation, and stakeholder communications.
• Establish metrics and reporting to measure DR readiness, recovery performance, testing outcomes, risks, exceptions, and remediation.
• Prepare and present DR program status, material risks, recovery capabilities, and performance to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with third-party vendors supporting disaster recovery services, technology, and recovery capabilities.
• Monitor regulatory requirements, industry standards, emerging risks, and technology trends and incorporate relevant changes into the DR program.
• Partner with risk, compliance, audit, and technology teams to support regulatory examinations and address DR-related findings.
• Develop organizational awareness, training, and guidance to ensure appropriate teams understand their responsibilities during recovery events.
• Provide leadership and technical/program guidance to DR engineers and partner technology teams.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure, business continuity, or related enterprise technology disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale disaster recovery programs within large, complex technology environments.
• Extensive knowledge of disaster recovery strategy, architecture, RTO/RPO, risk assessment, recovery testing, and enterprise technology resilience.
• Experience leading disaster recovery capabilities across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, including AWS and/or Azure.
• Demonstrated experience leading major DR exercises, technology recovery events, risk remediation, and executive-level communication.

Core Requirements

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture, including networks, compute, storage, databases, virtualization, cloud platforms, and application environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery frameworks and regulatory expectations.
• Experience reviewing BIAs and translating business requirements into technology recovery strategies.
• Experience establishing and overseeing enterprise DR testing programs.
• Ability to identify, assess, prioritize, and communicate technology recovery risks.
• Experience establishing program metrics, KPIs/KRIs, reporting, and remediation tracking.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills during high-impact technology incidents.
• Ability to influence technology and business leaders across organizational boundaries.
• Experience partnering with risk, compliance, audit, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application organizations.
• Excellent executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational and program leadership skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience managing third-party technology or recovery service providers.
• Strong understanding of technology risk management and control environments.
• Ability to translate complex technical recovery concerns into clear business risk and impact.

Preferred

• Experience within the financial services industry, particularly within a highly regulated financial institution.
• Advanced knowledge of FFIEC, NIST, ISO 22301, and related disaster recovery/business continuity frameworks.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications such as CBCP, MBCP, AWS, Azure, CISSP, or comparable technology/resilience credentials.
• Experience supporting regulatory examinations or internal/external audits involving disaster recovery and operational resilience.
• Experience with large-scale cloud transformation and cloud resiliency programs.
• Experience leading disaster recovery programs supporting geographically distributed, highly available enterprise technology environments.

This is a hybrid role, requiring onsite presence at our Fort Mill SC office 2–3 days per week, as much of the team and leadership are based there.

Pay Range:

$111,755.00 - $186,224.00

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(6) , 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 www.lpl.com.

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.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

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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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