Senior Software Engineer (Core registry)

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

Company Overview 

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries employs more than 27,000 people in offices in 35 countries across the globe. 

In Australia, SS&C is predominately located in Melbourne and Sydney and has 600+ employees. Most of the Australian division are working on Unit Registry (referred to as Transfer Agency around the world) technology and services. SS&C Managed Funds Administration (MFA) is the largest provider of Unit Registry services in Australia, providing Fund Manager, Custodians and end to end service offering. 

Reports to:   

Engineering Team Lead (AU) 

About the team 

The Core Registry team’s goal is to provide the best possible tools to internal users as they provide administration services for our Fund Manager clients.  Our commitment is to provide an efficient and user-friendly platform that simplifies the administration process for high quality service outcomes.

What is the opportunity? 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Registry team. 

The Core Registry team is one of two engineering teams within the Managed Funds Administration business of SS&C and is 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 Core Strategy to become an industry-leading Fund Administration service in Australia. 

What you’ll do

• 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 Core 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 Discovery and Refinement activities and feels comfortable leading technical design and estimation workshops.

• Effectively identifies opportunities to remove waste and automate manual processes.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated experience of front and back-end development skills and technologies including one of the following:

VB6, vb.net, c#

Java

Kotlin

• Experience in large monolithic legacy systems

• Experience with relational databases (MS SQL Server desired)

• Experience with Cloud and container architectures highly desired

• Strong software engineering fundamentals – Object Oriented and/or functional programming, Design Patterns and Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development

• Test automation experience, including Unit, Integration and End-to-End User Interface 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 full SDLC (Problem to Solution)

• Experience in utilizing Continuous Delivery concepts to deliver software into Production environments

Education and qualification: 

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent industry experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer)

• Minimum 6 years' experience in similar role(s)

Key behaviours:  

• 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 pursued. 
• Customer Focus – Must have empathy for Customer problems, which will help him/her to match technical solutions to business and customer needs. 
• Communicate Effectively – Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms, across all levels of an organization and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they have understood the needs communicated appropriately.
• Grow and develop – be committed to growing the next generation of Seniors around them. Become a force multiplier and an enabler.
• Continuous Learning & Improvement mindset – Continually seek opportunities for improvement – personal & organizational -, believe that things can better, have the desire and willingness to set aspiring goals and commitment to see it through to completion. 

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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.