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Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 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.\nJob Description\nDirector, AI Platform Engineering\nLocations: San Francisco, CA / Boston, MA / Waltham, MA / NY, NY | Hybrid\nGet To Know Us:\nSS&C Advent's financial solutions are going Agentic! And we're growing the team to get us there. Our best-of-breed products that span the investment firm's front-to-back office will be part of the journey to digital transformation, which started with our cloud-native, award-winning Genesis Platform used by clients around the globe.\nWe are building a next-generation Agentic AI Framework that integrates Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, Machine Learning, and advanced orchestration on top of our enterprise big data platform.\nWe are seeking a Director of AI Platform Engineering to lead the design, development, and scaling of our enterprise AI agent platform. This role owns the technical vision and execution for a production-grade, multi-tenant platform that enables the organization to build, deploy, and operate AI agent workflows at scale - across investment management, data analytics, and operational domains.\nYou will lead a team of platform engineers, architect critical infrastructure, and drive the strategy for multi-agent orchestration, LLM integration, observability, and developer experience.\nWhy You Will Love It Here! \nFlexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans\nYour Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement\nWork/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays\nYour Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave\nWide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees\nTraining: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University\nExtra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!\nWhat You Will Get To Do:\nPlatform Strategy & Architecture\nDefine and execute the technical roadmap for the AI agent platform (multi-agent orchestration, LLM routing, tool integration, observability)\nArchitect for enterprise-grade multi-tenancy, security, and scalability\nDrive platform standardization across agent frameworks (LangGraph, MCP protocol, AG-UI protocol)\nEvaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies (new LLM providers, inference optimization, agentic frameworks)\nTeam Leadership\nBuild, lead, and mentor a team of 8-15 platform engineers (backend, infrastructure, AI/ML)\nEstablish engineering best practices: code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation\nCreate a culture of technical excellence, ownership, continuous learning, prototyping and delivering\nFoster cross-functional collaboration with product, data science, and business stakeholders\nDelivery & Operations\nOwn platform reliability, availability, and performance SLAs\nDrive production readiness: observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning\nDeliver iterative platform capabilities through discovery-driven development processes\nManage dependencies across multiple consuming teams and agent developers\nTechnical Decision Making\nLead architectural decisions using structured frameworks (DACI, ADR etc)\nEvaluate build vs. buy vs. integrate trade-offs for platform components\nChampion developer experience: APIs, SDKs, documentation, self-service tooling\nEnsure AI agent platform security, compliance, and audit requirements\nWhat You Will Bring:\n10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership and management roles (managing managers or large teams)\nDeep experience building and operating production platforms (API platforms, data platforms, or ML platforms)\nExperience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen)\nStrong knowledge with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool-integration standards\nHands-on expertise with modern AI/ML ecosystem: LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock), agent frameworks, prompt engineering\nStrong systems design: distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture\nProduction cloud native infrastructure at scale (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform)\nPython as primary backend language (FastAPI, async patterns)\nProven track record of shipping platform products used by multiple internal or external teams\nExperience leading technical strategy at the organizational level (not just team-level)\nNice-to-Have Qualifications:\nBackground in financial services or regulated industries (compliance, audit trails, data governance)\nExperience with real-time streaming protocols (SSE, WebSocket, AG-UI)\nKnowledge of data mesh / data platform architectures (GraphQL, dbt, data catalogs)\nExposure to Module Federation / micro-frontend architectures\nOpen source contributions or community leadership in AI/ML space\nExperience scaling from 0→1 platform through growth stages\nThank 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.\nUnless 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.\nSS&C Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. 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