Manager, Software Engineering

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

Manager, Software Engineering

Locations: Remote (must be available EST hours)

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

Reporting to the Software Development Director, this is a unique opportunity to be part of a team of highly skilled engineers in a multi-platform, multicultural environment spread across multiple countries.

You will be comfortable working in a phenomenally fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment while developing yourself and the team around you. As a manager in our Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in our business and in our customers’ journey.

You should have a good understanding of how modern package-based and cloud-first enterprise-scale software is architected. This includes practices such as event driven architecture, microservices, containerisation, and APIs. Any experience of working with LLMs, Generative AI, AI-driven workflows and MCPs is beneficial.

The successful candidate will be a strong collaborative team player who thrives on technical challenges within a fast-paced environment, applies sound judgment and focuses on delivering at scale.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• You will have delivery management responsibilities for individuals and teams working across multiple product lines. You will work with other Engineering dept leads, internal and external, to plan, execute and deliver across multiple product releases.
• Drive a collaborative working relationship between local and remote team members (through KPI/OKRs, etc.)
• You will work with peers to own the software delivery across the entire SDLC with a collaborative mindset to ensure an end-to-end joined-up thinking approach is taken.
• Work with management, stakeholders and peers to move the software development process forward in terms of agility, quality and speed of delivery with a cloud-first mindset.
• Take ownership of system design and decisions on current generation and green-field projects you are responsible for, involving and collaborating with teams inside and outside of engineering.
• Your direct reports will be Developers and / or Development Team Leads who are in Sprint Teams. You will work closely alongside your in-sprint Team Leads, Product Owners, Developers, QA, etc., to ensure epics/user stories are delivered to high quality and pragmatically.
• Research and validate emerging technologies for suitability against the technology ecosystem.
• Highlight requirements for Development Team infrastructure and tooling.
• Promote opportunities for process and working practice improvements.
• Take the initiative to define key objectives based on broad outcomes, assisting with the generation of new ideas or approaches within a specialty area.

What You Will Bring:

• Major language experience (Python / Typescript/C# .NET) +5 years
• Proven team leadership and mentorship skills.
• OO, Clean Code, Code Complete, TDD practices
• GRPC / REST API knowledge
• Unit & Integration Testing knowledge
• Agile development practices
• Git/Github/Gitlab source code repositories
• Experience in managing experienced development staff
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery

• Docker / Containerisation technologies
• You are an ambitious high-achiever who strives for technical excellence from yourself and the team.
• Your key skill will be delivery of high quality product increments on premise and in the cloud, and will have experience in object-oriented development, unit testing, clean coding, etc.
• You will have experience in working with LLMs, RAG and a keen interest in where this technology is evolving.
• You will be able to balance your passion for technology with commercial awareness and be able to communicate with business stakeholders in a professional manner.
• You will be qualified to degree level in a computer-related (or applicable) discipline.
• You will coach and mentor team members in various coding methodologies, patterns & practices, testing practices, and tools that complement the software development process.

Desirable:

• Exposure to AWS / Azure / Other Cloud technologies
• K8S
• Experience of implementing and using commercial LLM APIs (OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic, Claude etc) in an enterprise setting.
• AI/Machine Learning
• Proven experience in leading projects across an engineering function
• Proven experience in delivering enterprise solutions

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.

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