Director, AI Platform Engineering

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, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Director, AI Platform Engineering Locations : San Francisco, CA / Boston, MA / Waltham, MA / NY, NY | Hybrid Get To Know Us: SS&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. We 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. We 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. You will lead a team of platform engineers, architect critical infrastructure, and drive the strategy for multi-agent orchestration, LLM integration, observability, and developer experience. Why You Will Love It Here! Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more! What You Will Get To Do: Platform Strategy & Architecture Define and execute the technical roadmap for the AI agent platform (multi-agent orchestration, LLM routing, tool integration, observability) Architect for enterprise-grade multi-tenancy, security, and scalability Drive platform standardization across agent frameworks (LangGraph, MCP protocol, AG-UI protocol) Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies (new LLM providers, inference optimization, agentic frameworks) Team Leadership Build, lead, and mentor a team of 8-15 platform engineers (backend, infrastructure, AI/ML) Establish engineering best practices: code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation Create a culture of technical excellence, ownership, continuous learning, prototyping and delivering Foster cross-functional collaboration with product, data science, and business stakeholders Delivery & Operations Own platform reliability, availability, and performance SLAs Drive production readiness: observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning Deliver iterative platform capabilities through discovery-driven development processes Manage dependencies across multiple consuming teams and agent developers Technical Decision Making Lead architectural decisions using structured frameworks (DACI, ADR etc) Evaluate build vs. buy vs. integrate trade-offs for platform components Champion developer experience: APIs, SDKs, documentation, self-service tooling Ensure AI agent platform security, compliance, and audit requirements What You Will Bring: 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership and management roles (managing managers or large