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.

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Functional and Solution Architect

Locations: Dublin, Ireland | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

• Act as the bridge between business requirements and technical delivery on a financial services wealth platform
• Translate complex wealth management business needs into clear functional specifications and solution designs
• Produce high-quality documentation including functional specifications, solution design documents, process flows and data dictionaries
• Facilitate requirements workshops and collaborate with stakeholders to define user stories, acceptance criteria and designs
• Design integration approaches between platform components and third-party services (e.g. custodians, data providers, payment rails)
• Define data flows, entity relationships and reporting requirements across the platform
• Collaborate with development, QA and architecture teams to ensure solutions are implementable, scalable and aligned with platform strategy

What You Will Bring:

• Deep analytical ability; capable of decomposing complex business processes into precise functional specifications
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; able to present and defend designs to both business and technical audiences
• Proactive in identifying opportunities to simplify, modernise and improve platform design
• Collaborative approach; works effectively across business, development, QA and architecture teams
• Commitment to continuous learning across both wealth domain knowledge and emerging technology patterns
• 5+ years’ experience in functional or solution architecture, business analysis, or a combined role within financial services
• Deep knowledge of wealth management products and client journeys: investment portfolios, pensions, ISAs, savings products, suitability and appropriateness assessments, and client reporting
• Proven ability to produce high-quality functional specifications, solution design documents, process flows and data dictionaries
• Experience facilitating requirements workshops and translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria and functional designs
• Strong understanding of multi-tier application architecture: front-end portals, API layers, back-end services and relational databases, sufficient to assess technical feasibility and impact
• Experience designing integration patterns between wealth platform components and third-party services
• Knowledge of data modelling; ability to define data flows, entity relationships and reporting requirements
• Familiarity with regulatory obligations in wealth management: client suitability, product governance, transaction reporting and audit trail requirements
• Experience working in agile delivery environments; comfortable authoring epics, features and stories alongside product owners and development teams
• Experience on a multi-tenant wealth platform serving multiple client business units or brands from a single environment
• Exposure to Angular-based investor and advisor portal design from a functional perspective
• Knowledge of open banking, API-first platform design and RESTful service specifications
• Familiarity with GDPR, data residency requirements and regulatory outsourcing obligations within EU financial services
• Experience with ArchiMate, TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture frameworks
• Exposure to AI-assisted design tooling and the use of large language models to accelerate documentation and specification authoring
• Experience using Jira for requirements traceability, story management and design review workflows; SharePoint for specification management and team collaboration

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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.

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.

Functional and Solution Architect

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