Lead Java Developer

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

Why Join This Team?

• Shape how engineering evolves - Work with AI-assisted development and emerging agentic workflows
• Strong, collaborative engineers - Learn from technically capable peers
• Leadership that listens - Senior leaders actively improve tools and practices
• Flexible environment - Focus on outcomes, not rigid process
• Career mobility - Move across technologies, teams, and disciplines

Role Specification

SS&C is seeking a hands-on Lead Java Engineer who wants to do more than deliver features, someone motivated to lead, influence, and continuously improve how modern software engineering is practiced within a large-scale financial technology environment. The role will be an individual contributor.

SS&C is actively investing in AI-driven and agentic solutions designed to simplify complex financial operations at scale within a global organization delivering mission-critical systems across the financial services industry.

In this role, you will work with high-performing engineering teams building enterprise-grade systems while helping introduce AI-assisted development, automation, and modern engineering practices.

You will operate in a collaborative, low-ego environment where engineers share knowledge and continuously raise the bar. Leadership is supportive and committed to keeping teams modern, effective, and technically strong.

We care not only about what we build, but how we build it, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills

Leadership Skills

• Leadership Skills

• Lead development efforts through hands-on coding, design, and technical decision-making
• Break down complex work into clear technical designs and implementable components
• Act as a key technical point of contact for design discussions and delivery alignment
• Resolve technical challenges and align stakeholders through architecture and solution clarity
• Coach and mentor developers via code reviews, design reviews, and day-to-day collaboration
• Ensure adherence to development standards and best practices through active participation and technical oversight

Technical Skills

• 12-17 yrs of Strong Java experience (Spring, Kafka, containers)
• SQL expertise
• Frontend exposure (Angular, React, or Vue)
• Version control (Git, SVN)
• Understanding of AI concepts and automation Knowledge of SDLC methodologies
• Commitment to engineering standards

Demonstrated Capabilities

• Strong communication skills
• Ownership mindset
• Effective problem solving
• Team collaboration
• Continuous learning mindset
• Focus on high-quality delivery

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.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.