Lead Software Engineer (Micro Services)

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

Opportunity snapshot

The Sr. Software Engineer is a key member of the Development Team responsible for the day to day implementation of projects to clients of SS&C Bluedoor. As part of a project team, the Technical Lead role is responsible for the development of technical design solutions that meet project requirements and are aligned to the overall product vision and roadmap for the Bluedoor product.

The Sr. Software Engineer role is also required to ensure that the solutions are developed in line with designs and coding standards are adhered to

Role Responsibilities

• Technical input to and sign off of Functional Specifications (FSDs) as part of the DST Bluedoor design process
• Production of High Level Designs (HLDs) and Design Principles
• Production of build estimates based on HLDs – in collaboration with Technical Project Managers Solution Architects and Developers
• As part of a project team responsible for delivery of overall technical solution to schedule and time and in alignment with HLDs
• Work with testing team for any issues and questions during peer test and QA phase
• Coaching and mentoring Developers and Senior Developers during the build phase to ensure best practice build techniques are employed and DST Bluedoor coding practices are adhered to
• Support and guide Developers and Senior Developers in the production of Detailed Designs.
• Liaise with other Technical leads, BA’s and Solution Architects to discuss implementation issues and solutions.
• Leading and championing software component reuse and reuse of existing patterns and methods
• Collaborating with customer stakeholders during the design and build phase to ensure the technical solution meets the functional requirements while maintaining alignment to the overall Bluedoor architectural principles
• Undertaking design reviews (for detailed designs) and code reviews for assigned projects to ensure alignment of these deliverables with FSDs, HLDs and overall Bluedoor architectural principles
• Raising, presenting and discussing high impact items, HLDS and Design Principles with the Architecture Review Board to seek approval
• As part of the broader architecture and development community, participate in development of future architectural and platform designs that support the evolution of the Bluedoor product

Experience and Skills

Technical skills

• Programming experience using the .Net framework – including ASP.Net, VB, C#, LINQ, WPF, WCF, MVC, XML.
• Experience with Microservices architecture
• Technical design experience – translating functional requirements into technical designs in a complex .Net (or similar) technical environment
• Ability to develop accurate build estimates based on technical designs
• Experience in SQL Server (or similar) database design and optimisation
• Experience with TFS and Visual Studio products
• Experience with researching and understanding an underlying application functionality and patterns to develop technical designs
• Experience with large scale waterfall development in a highly complex environment
• Experienced with Agile development methodologies is desirable but not mandatory
• Experience in the development of Financial Services application – particularly Wealth Management is desirable
• Experience with development of web based systems (web, mobile) and integration experience is desirable

Personal skills

• Ability to operate independently and self start on new projects and assignments
• Ability to work effectively in a project team and collaborate with Business Analysts, Technical Project Managers and Developers
• Ability to develop innovation solutions to complex technical issues – taking into account existing architectures, performance requirements and project time lines
• Ability to mentor and coach more junior team members in development practices and advanced programming techniques

Education

• A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Any Microsoft Certification is a plus.