[Hiring] Senior Engineer, Ontology Platform @SS&C Technologies

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Ontology Platform team, reporting to the Ontology Platform Lead, and covering the full engineering lifecycle of the ontology platform:

• Stewarding the ontology model and building reconciliation/rules logic
• Connector and platform engineering
• Data and warehouse work
• Production operations

This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants broad ownership across the platform rather than a narrowly scoped specialization.

The ontology platform is built on top of the enterprise's foundational data platform (Airflow, Iceberg, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Nessie, Trino, StarRocks).

Your focus is the layer above it:

• Translating business ontology definitions into concrete structures
• Building connectors and mapping/rules logic
• Maintaining the ontology-specific data model and pipelines
• Operating the platform in production, including onboarding new sources and supporting business users day to day

Qualifications

• 5-9 years of software/data engineering experience
• Exposure to data modeling, data pipelines, and production support for a data platform or similar system
• Comfortable working across the full lifecycle of a feature or capability
• Solid data engineering fundamentals: SQL, ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling (relational and/or graph)
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines at scale
• Experience building integrations or connectors to external/source systems
• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical structures
• Experience with production operations: monitoring, incident response, and troubleshooting for data systems
• Comfortable working on top of a shared foundational data platform
• Practical, hands-on experience using AI coding agents as a core part of your development workflow
• Experience in or working with financial services data environments is a plus

Requirements

• Prior exposure to ontology, knowledge graph, or master data management (MDM) concepts
• Experience with rules engines or validation/reconciliation frameworks
• Familiarity with graph databases or semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, SPARQL)
• Experience onboarding new data sources or users onto a platform as a repeatable, documented process
• Familiarity with the underlying foundational data platform's technologies (Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Trino, or similar)
• Experience mentoring others on effective use of AI coding agents or agentic development workflows

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave
• Professional development reimbursement opportunity

Actual base salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant skills, prior experience, education, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

New Jersey: The expected base salary for the position is between 165000 USD to 175000 USD.

Other States expected base salary for the position is between 165000 USD to 175000 USD.

Massachusetts: The expected base salary for the position is between 165000 USD to 175000 USD.

In addition, employees in this role may be eligible for consideration on an annual basis for a discretionary bonus and/or equity awards.

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.