GenAI 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

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today's and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those who embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation, to name a few.

GenAI Data Engineer

Locations: London, Essex | Hybrid

The Opportunity

As a GenAI Data Expert at SS&C, you will play a key role in the Data Platform, shaping hedge fund administration technology, streamlining daily workflows, and enhancing reporting for fund accountants, investment managers, clients, and investors. You’ll be part of a dedicated and passionate team driven by intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and a commitment to delivering impactful solutions. We seek capable leaders eager to learn new technologies, embrace best practices, and foster a collaborative, fun work environment.

This role is with SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies is one of the world’s largest administrators with core competencies in private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds and managed accounts. SS&C has been providing outsourcing and fund administration services since 1995.

Join us to grow and learn while practising continuous integration and delivery, leveraging the agile methodology, and building high-quality, valuable features using a test-driven approach.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of high-performance Java-based applications and microservices for digital investment products.
• Collaborate closely with product management, UX/UI designers, and other developers to deliver high-quality software that meets client requirements.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in coding, testing, and software architecture to ensure high standards of code quality, performance, and scalability.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers, promoting continuous learning and professional development within the team.
• Conduct code reviews, ensuring adherence to established coding standards and architectural guidelines.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve SS&C's digital product offerings.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the application stack, ensuring minimal disruption to the business.
• Contribute to the strategic planning of the Digital Development function, identifying opportunities for innovation and process improvement.
  
  

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in AI & Python development, with expertise in Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Ability to design and build end-to-end applications and API integrations.
• Proven experience with large language models (LLMs) and AI model development
• Experience with developing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Experience with GenAI tools like Langchain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, and open-source Vector DBs.
• Exposure to prompt engineering principles and techniques like the chain of thought, in-context learning, tree of thought, etc.
• Exposure to SLMs.
• Experience with supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), prompt tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA, adapters), and knowledge distillation.
• Experience with relational databases such as MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Expertise in DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed computing principles.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices in software development.
• Familiarity with data analytics and visualisation tools such as Snowflake, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and within a team.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  
  

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
  
  

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 @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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.

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.