Technical Lead (Pa45271301)

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.

Job Description

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, 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.

Job Description

The candidate will become part of an exciting transformation programme with opportunities to showcase your skills and help modernize technology within the Wealth Management industry. We are looking for driven individuals with experience using Micro Services Architecture to join a multi-year modernization program to componentize our highly regarded wealth management system. Initially the role will entail learning our existing VB.NET products and become part of the teams that will extract functions onto our new Micro Services wealth platform.

About the Role

This role will play a key part of the modernization and simplification of the software and requires the successful candidate to effectively communicate the key development principles for the successful transition to a componentized solution. Once in the organization individuals can look forward to a career pathway into for senior Technical Lead and Architecture roles as individuals gain experience and grow within their roles.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following abilities;

Ability to operate independently and communicate microservice principles to the development team.

Willingness to learn our existing system to aid in the transition to microservices architecture.

Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional delivery team and collaborate with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Technical Leads and Developers, Testers and Architects.

Ability to independently problem solve and lead the software solution implementation end to end by working with the Scrum team.

Your Responsibilities

Participate in a cross-functional delivery team and play a key role in the development and maintenance of product functionality.

As a part of a client project team, develop new functionality or modify existing functionality under the guidance of Solution Architects.

Embrace and enforce SS&C coding standards and best practices

Collaborate with testers to develop functional test cases to protect software quality

Ensure quality be meeting or exceeding unit and integration test code coverage expectations

Work with the BA/QA team members as well as internal and external stakeholders to elaborate features and user stories.

Attend client-facing workshops as required.

Assist with the technical analysis and investigation tasks as required with a microservices focused approach.

Identify the high impact software issues and solutions, escalating to Technical Leads and Architects to ensure key details are shared.

Responsible for continuous improvement of development efficiencies.

Attend and contribute to all cross-functional team activities, including but not limited to team planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

Lead, develop and support junior development team members – be the mentor you wish you had.

Your Experience

Essential

Desirable (good to know)

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of 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.

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.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.

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.