$123K – $204KExecutiveFull Time
Where Ambition Meets Innovation
Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.
Job Overview:
LPL’s Security Architecture & Engineering team is seeking a senior level AVP, DLP & AI Data Protection Engineer to lead and evolve our enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program with a specific focus on AI‑driven data flows, machine‑learning platforms, and next‑generation data protection controls. This role is responsible for engineering and operationalizing data protection capabilities that safeguard sensitive financial, customer, and employee data across traditional enterprise environments and AI‑enabled platforms. The AVP will work closely with LPL AI, cloud, and application engineering teams to support AI data‑protection proof of concepts (POCs), production AI initiatives, and regulatory‑aligned controls. The role requires strong technical depth in DLP engineering, AI data governance, and data‑security architecture. This position plays a key role in shaping the future‑state data protection and Responsible AI security posture at LPL.
Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and maintain DLP controls across endpoints, email, SaaS, cloud platforms, APIs, and AI/ML data pipelines.
Engineer DLP solutions that address AI‑specific risks, including:
Training‑data leakage
Prompt and response data exposure
Model input/output inspection
Sensitive data misuse in AI experimentation and inference
Partner with AI engineering teams to embed security‑by‑design controls into AI platforms and workflows.
Integrate DLP solutions with SIEM, CASB/CSPM, endpoint protection, cloud security, and AI observability platforms.
Develop automation and scripting to support policy enforcement, exception handling, redaction, and data classification across dynamic environments.
Evaluate emerging technologies for AI data protection, DSPM, and next‑generation DLP capabilities.
Tune DLP policies to minimize false positives while maintaining strong data‑exfiltration and misuse controls—especially in AI‑driven workflows.
Assess existing DLP coverage and identify gaps across legacy systems, cloud platforms, AI tools, and third‑party services.
Stay current with emerging threats, AI security patterns, and regulatory developments, recommending updates to DLP and AI data‑protection strategy.
Partner with data owners, legal, privacy, compliance, AI teams, and business units to understand data flows and protection requirements.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a hands‑on security engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of DLP, AI, and enterprise data protection. The ideal candidate is comfortable influencing architecture decisions, working with senior technical stakeholders, and driving innovation in a fast‑paced, highly regulated environment—while always keeping the client and data trust at the center.
Requirements:
8+ years of experience in data security, security engineering, or risk management.
5+ years of hands‑on experience engineering enterprise DLP solutions (e.g., Proofpoint, Forcepoint, Microsoft Purview, Netskope).
5+ years delivering cybersecurity initiatives involving requirements definition, engineering, testing, and production implementation.
5+ years collaborating with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and program managers in complex enterprise environments.
4+ years of experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Curl, Glue).
Preferences:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Experience designing DLP or data‑protection controls for AI/ML platforms or data pipelines.
Strong experience with Regular Expression creation, tuning, and structured/unstructured data classification.
Familiarity with AI data governance, data lineage, and sensitive‑data detection techniques.
Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft O365.
Strong foundation in networking, cloud infrastructure, and modern application architectures.
Pay Range:
$122,570.00 - $204,249.00Company 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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