Principal Data Engineer

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 Title: Principal Data Engineer

Location: Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane, Australia || Hybrid

Role Type: Full Time

Get To Know Us SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model

Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance

Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave

Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance

Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity

Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University

Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get to Do: As part of the Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) APAC Data Platform team, you will play a key role to lead the design, development, and optimisation of our enterprise data platform. This role is pivotal in shaping our data platform strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across our data ecosystem.

Architect and lead the development of scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms

Own the design and implementation the Data platform using modern data stack technologies including but not limited to:

Event-driven and batch data-based data ingestion and pipelines (e.g., Debezium, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Data Lab)

Data visualisation & reporting (e.g. SSRS, Pentaho, Data Lens)

Data governance (e.g. DataHub)

Collaborate with data architect, analysts, and engineers to deliver robust data solutions

Champion automations by using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines

Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance across all data systems

Mentor and guide junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence

Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities

Lead incident response and root cause analysis for data platform issues

What You Will Bring:

Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

10+ years of experience in a data engineering related role for senior-level candidates

Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal

Proficiency in modern data platform engineering

Hands-on experience with end-to-end data platform engineering design and implementation

Experience with automation across engineering

Familiarity with modern data platform technology stack with open source tools preferred

Experience with GitHub, PR process, CI/CD pipeline, and code/release management

Proficiency in public and private cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Expert in streaming technologies and ETL/ELT data pipelines (e.g. Debezium CDC, Kafka, Flink, Spark, NiFi, etc.)

Expert database technologies and data lake storage (e.g. MSSQL, Postgres, Iceberg, etc.)

Expert in Data analytics and reporting (e.g. SSRS, Pentaho, Data Lens, Trino, etc.)

Expert in Data Governance by using tools like DataHub

Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python and Java

Knowledge of AI/MCP is an advantage but optional

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse 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.

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 @ ************************************* 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.

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