SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.
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About the team
The Digital Registry team is on a mission to streamline the process of managed fund investment for Investors and Advisors by leveraging our advanced digital solutions. Our commitment is to provide an efficient and user-friendly platform that simplifies the investment process.
What is the opportunity?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our team, within the Managed Funds Administration business of SS&C, responsible for our investment management and fund administration front ends, used primarily by investors and financial advisers.
This is a key role in enabling the successful execution of our Digital Strategy to become an industry-leading Fund Administration service in Australia.
You will help build and manage products that solve key problems in the managed fund investment space by championing and demonstrating modern software engineering principles and practices, promoting a Product-led mindset and rolemodeling critical-thinking and maturity within and outside your team.
Key accountabilities:
- Contribute to delivering key strategic product and technology roadmap initiatives.
- Create high quality and scalable software and influence others to do the same.
- Contributes to developing and improving Digital Registry team’s engineering standards and frameworks.
- Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of software engineering best practices within and outside the team.
- Deeply care about Customer problems and technical excellence
- Proactively participates in team’s Discovery and Refinement activities and feels comfortable leading technical design and estimation workshops.
- Effectively identifies opportunities to remove waste and automate manual processes.
Role Responsibilities:
- Engineering
- Driving force for technical excellence in team
- Comfortable leading / driving solution design workshops
- Keen to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems.
- Takes ownership of problems and doesn’t rest until the most efficient solutions found.
- Familiar with DevOps concepts and keen to share his/her experience with others
- Delivery
- Familiar with Agile / Lean ways of working, and how to deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently.
- Drives and contributes to Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Product
- Shows curiosity about the problem-space, asks great questions to create more clarity.
- Demonstrates Customer empathy.
- Deep thinker, never satisfied with the first answer received.
- People
- Collaborative problem-solving skills (Huddles/Pair programming)
- Not afraid to provide and request feedback from others.
- Genuinely curious, keen learner and understands that Software delivery is a team sport
- Skills and Competencies:
- Demonstrated experience of front and back-end development skills and technologies including 1 or more of the following:
- o React / Typescript / JavaScript / CSS
- o Java / Kotlin / Spring Boot
- Expert in building web applications using AWS services / technologies.
- Experience with relational and non-relational DBs
- Experience with AWS and container architectures including Kubernetes highly desired
- Experience with Message broker technologies (e.g. AWS SQS) and streaming process platforms (e.g. Kafka)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals - OO and/or functional programming, Design Patterns and Domain Driven Design
- Demonstrated experience in Microservice and Micro-Frontend Architectures
- Test automation experience, including Unit, Integration and End-to-End UI automation
- Experienced with modern software tooling such as CI/CD platforms (e.g. Jenkins), Github, Datadog, code scanning tools such as Sonarqube.
- Solid understanding of the Agile Methodology and working experience in Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban
- Experience in utilizing Continuous Delivery concepts to deliver software into Production environments.
- We strongly encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every single requirement of this role
- Education and qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent industry experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer)
- Minimum 6 years' experience in similar role(s)
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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
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