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

SS&C GIDS – Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

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.

Reports to:

Delivery Lead / Scrum Master Production Support

Opportunity snapshot:

The Senior Software Engineer Production Support provides an opportunity for experienced software development professionals to be part of a fast growing and successful software manufacturer in the Wealth Management environment.

The role focuses on the maintenance and support of applications that underpin critical business functions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you may also contribute to new client projects and the continuous improvement of internal development tools. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions that drive efficiency and innovation.

The Senior Software Engineer role is a key part of the development organisation with a potential career path to Technical Lead, Senior Technical Lead, Principal Technical Lead and Architecture streams as individuals gain experience in the Bluedoor system.

Direct reports:

Not applicable

Key Responsibilities:

Work as part of a a cross-functional delivery team, Identify and resolve production issues in conjunction with Business Analysts, testers and business stakeholders.Apply Bluedoor coding standards and best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.Perform analysis and troubleshooting to resolve software defects and improve performanceDevelop, execute, and document functional unit tests for software, ensuring test automation aligns with development best practices.Assist and guide Testers in the development of functional test cases for developed software.Create detailed designs with minimal guidance from the Technical Leads.Monitor effort expended against assigned activity and regular update both the effort expended and the estimate to complete a task. Continuously improve the time taken to completion by introducing innovations and efficiencies.Attend, organise and contribute to all cross-functional team activities, including but not limited to team planning, demonstrations, retrospectives.When required work with the BA/QA team members as well as internal and external stakeholders to elaborate features and user stories.

Technical Skills and Competencies:

Solid hand on experience in designing and developing software systems using:

ASP.NET CoreC#MVCSQLJavaScriptAngularTypeScriptMVVMWeb APIRESTEntity FrameworLINQWCFHTMLCSS3BootstrapJSON,XML 

MS SQL Server experience is essential. Advanced skills in SQL programming and performance tuning of SQL and C#.

Proficient in all pillars of the .Net development environment, and preferable to be a full stack software engineer.

Capable of debugging complex Production code.Capable of articulating workarounds for immediate Production fixes.Capable of applying a pragmatic approach to development undertakings.Being expert in nominated fields of technical specialisation.Strong written and oral communications skills.

Prior knowledge and skills:

Strong experience with TFS and Visual Studio products.Have extensive coding, testing and documentation experience.Experience in creating complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development.Experience in analysing existing SQL queries for performance improvements.Knowledge of financial & investment products including Superannuation, Unit Trust and Pension products is desirable.Experience working in a geographically distributed team environment.

Key behaviors:

Instils Trust – contribute to building a safe learning environment in the business where the team can be listened to and understood.Collaborate – Must be able to work in a co-operative manner with both internal and external teams and take all views and interests into account when formulating outcomes.Ensure Accountability – Must take full ownership of their assigned responsibilities and the outcomes that are generated and pursuedCustomer Focus – Must understand customer and partner needs from both a functional and operational perspective.Communicate Effectively – Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms, across all levels of an organisation and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they have understood the needs communicated appropriately

Good to have technical skills:

Hands on experience in microservices, containerization, design patterns and Test-Driven Development.

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.