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CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 8 - 11 yrs

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SS&C Financial Services GroupLead Software Engineer P4 (Toronto Permanent)

Location: Choice: Spadina Ave, Toronto, Orbitor Drive, Mississauga plus other Canadian locations

At SS&C we are building the global future of financial services transaction processing and recordkeeping systems on the latest open-source technology and event sourcing architecture. We are looking for curious minds to join us and be an integral part of our exciting journey!

About SS&C Technologies:

At SS&C we are building the global future of financial services transaction processing and recordkeeping systems on the latest open-source technology and event sourcing architecture. We are looking for curious minds to join us and be an integral part of our exciting journey!

About the company: SS&C Technologies Holdings (NASDAQ: SSNC) is the worlds largest hedge fund and private equity administrator, as well as the largest mutual fund transfer agency. SS&Cs unique business model combines end-to-end expertise across financial services operations with software and solutions to service even the most demanding customers in the financial services and healthcare industries. SS&C owns and operates the full technology stack across securities accounting, front-to-back-office operations, performance and risk analytics, regulatory reporting, and healthcare information processes.

About the position: The SS&C Financial Services Development Group is looking for talented Full Stack Software Engineers to join our cross functional global team.

Position Overview:

The SS&C Financial Services Development Group is looking for a talented Lead Software Engineer to join our cross functional global team. This individual will be a do-er leader that codes and task manages a group of full stack software engineers that will be responsible for analyzing, designing, coding and modifying our cloud native microservices based financial services software.

Understand and communicate product vision and requirements to internal stakeholders and team members.

Manage engineers in a fast-paced and fluid development environment.

Influence, mentor and motivate engineering team members

Work with the project manager on project schedules allowing for management and reporting of program status.

Communicate program status to team members in a clear, effective, and timely manner.

Manage scope with an evaluation of impacts; document and communicate decisions.

Your code will be used in commercial and end-user applications, such as materials management, financial management, mobile apps or desktop applications products. Using current programming languages and technologies, leveraging BDD (Behavior Driven Development)/TDD (Test Driven Development) methodologies, cloud-native, you will be writing code, and perform testing and debugging of applications.

You will complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. You may interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications. You will adhere to Software Engineering and Information Security Controls, and align with enterprise architectural strategies.

You will close existing software defects and ensures maintenance of architectural diagrams

Requirements:

Able to lead or demonstrate an eagerness to step-up from being an individual contributor to a do-er coder/software leader as well reviewing, mentor and lead the developers in the team.

Able to communicate a technical vision to team members.

An interest in business architecture.

Able to design, build, and maintain modern applications for use by internal and external customers

Develop REST APIs and microservices to integrate with internal and external client systems

Able and/or keen to work with event based architectures, GraphQL, Apache Kafka, Java Spring boot, OpenWhisk, Apache and Nifi just to get us started.

Work with a product owner within an agile team to define, develop, and estimate user stories and epics.

Work with BA and QA to create and implement automated BDD tests

Ensure the ongoing scalability, security, and maintainability of our products

Qualifications:

Computer Science/Engineer related Bachelors degree; or Masters degree (recent graduate); or 8 years of equivalent work-related experience

Developing and maintaining SaaS applications

Hands on extensive experience on Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch and JUnit

Continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, Gitlab)

Web, GraphQL, RESTful Services Development

Decoupled Microservice Development with Event Sourcing/CQRS.

Experience in RDBMS and NoSQL databases

Working in an agile environment using Scrum/Kanban

A passion for continuous learning as well as the ability to learn quickly and apply new skills

Flexibility/Ability to be proactive, possesses good problem solving skills and the capability to find solutions and the ability to successfully meet deadlines

Able to work with a global team