Engineer II, Data

About this job

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad.

Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

Job Overview

LPL Financial is seeking a Data Services Developer to join our Reference Data Master team within the Data & Analytics organization. This role is ideal for a highly skilled, hands-on engineer with strong expertise in party reference data, cloud-native data platforms, and enterprise data engineering. You will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable party data solutions that support key business initiatives including client onboarding, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, and operational efficiency.

As a Data services developer, you will work closely with technical leads, architects, and business stakeholders while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain party reference data services and pipelines supporting clients, counterparties, issuers, and legal entities.
• Build and enhance cloud-native data solutions using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, RDS (Aurora/Postgres), and MSK/Kinesis.
• Develop and maintain APIs and data services to deliver party data to downstream systems such as CRM, trading, compliance, and reporting platforms
• Contribute to modernization efforts by migrating legacy party data systems from on-premise platforms to scalable, cloud-based architectures.
• Integrate and manage third-party data providers (e.g., S&P Global Markit, Dun & Bradstreet, KYC/AML vendors) to ensure accurate ingestion, enrichment, and synchronization of party data.
• Implement data mastering capabilities including deduplication, survivorship rules, identity resolution, and golden record creation.
• Develop and maintain APIs and data services to deliver party data to downstream systems such as CRM, trading, compliance, and reporting platforms.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and lineage through validation frameworks, monitoring, and metadata management.
• Build resilient, observable systems with appropriate logging, alerting, and fault-tolerant design patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and governance teams to ensure compliance with data privacy, regulatory, and cybersecurity standards.
• Participate actively in Agile delivery processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, code reviews, and production support.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to coding standards, design reviews, and engineering best practices.

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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or software development with a strong focus on enterprise data platforms.
• 3+ years of experience building data pipelines, APIs, and event-driven architectures (using Python – preferred)
• Hands-on experience working with party or entity reference data domains.
• Strong proficiency with AWS services, including Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, RDS (Aurora/Postgres), and MSK/Kinesis.
• Experience with data mastering…