Principal Data Engineer

Job description

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: Principal Data Engineer Locations: Waltham, MA - Hybrid: About the Role: 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. This role requires deep expertise in Java-based backend engineering, microservices architecture, event-driven systems, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, cloud-native platforms, and AWS technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building enterprise-scale streaming platforms, developing resilient microservices, optimizing large-scale data pipelines, and driving engineering best practices. This role will collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Application Development, Analytics, SRE, and DevOps teams to deliver highly scalable, reliable, and high-p...