Systems Integration Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Systems Integration Engineer

Location: Romania (with collaboration across global teams)

Department: SS&C Digital Solutions

Reports To: Head of Digital Engineering

Type: Full-time Permanent

Overview

SS&Cs Digital team delivers modern customer-centric financial applications across Funds Wealth and Life & Pensions. As we scale our next-generation digital products seamless integration with complex financial platforms is critical.

We are seeking a Systems Integration Engineer who will own the design mapping documentation and validation of integrations between our front-end digital applications and core financial services platforms used across the business.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering product and architecture ensuring that data flows APIs and integration touchpoints are clearly defined scalable and robust.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Design & Mapping

• Analyse current and target-state systems to define integration requirements.
• Map data structures payloads and message flows between front-end applications and back-end financial systems.
• Produce detailed interface specifications including:
  • API endpoints
  • Request/response schemas
  • Authentication and security requirements
  • Error-handling patterns
  • Event or message triggers

Documentation & Technical Specifications

• Create high-quality technical documents for engineering teams to implement integrations.
• Maintain API and system interface documentation using industry-standard formats (e.g. Swagger/OpenAPI sequence diagrams architecture diagrams).
• Ensure integration specs align with SS&Cs internal standards and architectural guidelines.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with front-end engineers back-end platform teams architects and product owners.
• Serve as a technical bridge between Digital delivery teams and SS&Cs broader platform ecosystem.
• Participate in refinement sessions to clarify integration behaviours and edge cases.

Technical Validation

• Support engineering teams during development to ensure integrations are built as designed.
• Assist with troubleshooting integration-related issues during testing and production rollout.
• Validate API behaviours against specifications including performance reliability and error responses.

Governance & Quality

• Ensure integrations meet regulatory security and compliance requirements for financial services.
• Contribute to the development of integration standards and best practices across the Digital organisation.

Skills & Experience Required

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of API design principles (REST JSON XML Webhooks OAuth 2.0 JWT).
• Experience mapping integrations involving complex financial systems core platforms and/or third-party providers.
• Familiarity with back-end financial systems (e.g. transfer agency wealth platforms pensions systems) beneficial.
• Ability to read and interpret system logs API traces and error payloads.
• Knowledge of common integration patterns (synchronous asynchronous event-driven messaging queues).

Tools & Frameworks

• Experience with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI Postman).
• Ability to produce technical diagrams (sequence diagrams flowcharts architecture diagrams).
• Understanding of integration middleware or iPaaS tools (e.g. MuleSoft Boomi Workato) is a plus.

Soft Skills

• Strong communicator able to translate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Comfortable working across multi-national engineering teams (UK India Romania Australia).
• Detail-oriented organised and able to drive alignment between teams.
• Problem-solving mindset especially around ambiguous integration scenarios.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Professional certifications in integration technologies or cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) are advantageous but not required.

Why Join SS&C Digital

• Work on modern financial products used globally across funds wealth and pensions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across multiple geographies.
• Influence the integration architecture of next-generation fintech applications.
• Opportunities for growth into architecture API design authority or systems engineering leadership.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks including 5-year employment history proof of eligibility to work in hiring location proof of address credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.

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.

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.