Sr Engineering Manager, Ontology Platform
About the role
SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. We are seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead a team (initially 5-6 engineers) responsible for architecting, building, and operating our enterprise ontology platform. This is a hands-on management role: you will manage and grow the team, set technical direction, and remain deeply hands-on in architecture and implementation decisions rather than operating purely at a planning/oversight level. You'll drive the build-out of a platform that ingests data from a wide variety of source systems, maps it to a canonical ontology, surfaces discrepancies ("breaks") between source data and ontology definitions, and gives business and technical users configurable tools to manage those mappings and exceptions, all in a financial services data environment where scale, correctness, and auditability matter. The ontology solution is built on top of the enterprise's foundational data platform, so close partnership with that platform team is central to this role.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & People Management: Build, lead, and grow a team of 5-6 engineers, including hiring, performance management, career development, and day-to-day people leadership; set team structure, priorities, and delivery roadmap in partnership with product/business stakeholders; establish team engineering culture