As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane, Australia || Hybrid
Job Description
Get To Know Us:
SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
- Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
What You Will Get to Do:
As part of the Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) APAC Data Platform team, you will play a key role to join the team for the design, development, and optimisation of our enterprise data platform. This role is pivotal in shaping our data platform strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across our data ecosystem.
- Contribute to the architecture and design of scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms.
- Responsible for the design and implementation of the Data platform using modern data stack technologies including but not limited to:
- Event-driven and batch data-based data ingestion and pipelines (e.g., Debezium, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Data Lab)
- Data visualisation & reporting (e.g. SSRS, Pentaho, Data Lens)
- Data governance (e.g. DataHub)
- Collaborate with data architect, principal/lead engineer, analysts, and other engineers to deliver robust data solutions.
- Lead the implementation of automations by using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure data platform reliability, performance, and security.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
- Responsible for the incident response and root cause analysis for data platform issues.
What You Will Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in a data engineering related role for senior-level candidates
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proficiency in modern data platform engineering
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end data platform engineering design and implementation
- Experience with automation across engineering
- Familiarity with modern data platform technology stack with open source tools preferred
- Experience with GitHub, PR process, CI/CD pipeline, and code/release management
- Proficiency in public and private cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Proficiency in streaming technologies and ETL/ELT data pipelines (e.g. Debezium CDC, Kafka, Flink, Spark, NiFi, etc.)
- Proficiency in database technologies and data lake storage (e.g. MSSQL, Postgres, Iceberg, etc.)
- Proficiency in Data analytics and reporting (e.g. SSRS, Pentaho, Data Lens, Trino, etc.)
- Proficiency in Data Governance by using tools like DataHub
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python and Java
- Knowledge of AI/MCP is an advantage but optional
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
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 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.
