Ssctech
Principal Data Engineer
Waltham MA - 10 CityPoint, USA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
PythonJavaNode.jsSpringDistributed SystemsGitPostgreSQLRedshiftAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringAPI DevelopmentRESTKafkaData EngineeringLeadership
About the role
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams while driving best practices, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design optimized relational and analytical data models using Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, and Aurora, including performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST API development, and Microservices Architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, and AWS MSK
- Solid expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, ECS, and EKS environments
- Strong knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Aurora databases
- Experience with data modeling, database optimization, query tuning, indexing, and performance improvement strategies
- Strong expertise in monitoring, logging, and observability tools including CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and related operational frameworks
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- 8+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures
- 4+ years of experience with Apache Flink and real-time stream processing
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Python is preferred
- experience with Node.js is a plus
Compensation
- The expected base salary for the position is between 160,000 USD to 170,000 USD.
- Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Benefits
- SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations.
Company info
- 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.
- We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Principal Data Engineer to lead the design, and development of scalable real-time data platforms and distributed data processing systems.
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