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About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a leading financial services and healthcare technology company, headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, with 27,000+ employees across 35 countries. Over 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

As a leading provider of digital investment solutions, SS&C seeks an Integration Architect to design and orchestrate scalable, secure integration solutions. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring straight‑through processing (STP) data flow and system interoperability with our enterprise architecture.


Reporting to

CTO


Locations

London, Bristol, Stirling, Basildon, Lichfield, Warrington – Hybrid


The Opportunity

We are seeking an Integration Architect to help us deliver scalable and secure integration solutions in the digital investments space. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in development, enterprise architecture, and integration challenges, with proven knowledge of tokenisation, blockchain, and emerging technologies.


Why This Role Matters

At SS&C, we’re engineering the backbone of global financial technology. As an Integration Architect, you’ll design and orchestrate the technical fabric that powers seamless data flow and interoperability across a multi‑system, regulated environment, influencing enterprise architecture at scale.


What You Will Get To Do
Integration Strategy & Blueprint

  • Define and implement an end‑to‑end solution architecture to achieve business outcomes.
  • Maintain integration maps, dependency matrices, and readiness plans.

Cross‑Domain Alignment

  • Ensure application and infrastructure architectures align with business objectives and NFRs.
  • Facilitate trade‑offs between domains (e.g., performance vs. cost) without dictating implementation details.

Delivery Coordination

  • Orchestrate cross‑team dependencies and integration milestones.
  • Partner with Product Owners on roadmap alignment and sequencing.
  • Lead implementations and client interactions.

Governance

  • Lead the cross‑functional Design Authority.
  • Oversee change governance and integration readiness gates.
  • Ensure operational handover plans (runbooks, observability, support boundaries) are in place.

What You Will Bring

  • Domain‑specific knowledge in asset management, capital markets, and fund administration.
  • MS tech background, knowledge of blockchain/tokenisation and modern technology.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and integration challenges.
  • Experience in multi‑system solution design and program‑level coordination.
  • Ability to translate business objectives into high‑level architectural blueprints and integration strategies.
  • Skilled in stakeholder management, facilitation, and risk mitigation.
  • Deep knowledge of NFRs (performance, reliability, security).
  • Exposure to regulated environments and complex multi‑system landscapes.
  • Understanding of modern delivery practices (DevOps, CI/CD) at a conceptual level.

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 Well‑being: Competitive benefits designed to support staff well‑being
  • 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.


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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