Sr. Director, Software Engineering

SS&C Technologies•Boston, MA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

SS&C is a leading financial services and healthcare technology company headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, with over 27,000 employees in 35 countries. Approximately 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. The Software Engineering teams are considered among the best globally. This role offers opportunities for collaboration with multiple teams across the company, including Architects, Project Managers, and QA, providing challenges and avenues for career scaling. The ability to learn and communicate with leadership is key to a positive, world-class career experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related degree)
10+ years of technical Architect experience
5+ years of managing software engineering teams
5+ years of experience in Cloud solutions
Solid command of Agentic AI stack
Excellent conceptual and critical thinking capabilities
Self-directed and self-motivated with the ability to build, motivate and drive technical teams
Strong understanding of product development
Clear written and verbal communications skills (English), including presentation skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with agentic AI platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

Drive the strategic technology roadmap for the ILP Business by working closely with ILP Business leaders.
Drive development teams to conceive, architect, and deliver innovation across the ILP Business that align with their business use cases.
Collaborate with Product Owners to architect solutions based on key functional and non-functional requirements.
Prototype and create high-level technical solutions to address business needs.
Architect technical solutions and create development roadmaps for current and future application growth for development teams to follow.
Collaborate with stakeholders and business partners, build teams, QA, and other development partners.
Actively lead discussions, presentations, and make decisions about overall development efforts, scope of work, and provide direction.
Participate in initial builds to provide developmental guidance for the development teams to follow.
Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and experience; experience with agentic AI platforms is a plus.
Manage teams for bug fixing and improving application performance.