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Description

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.

Job Description

Locations: South Africa

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services, and software solutions for the financial services and healthcare industries. We partner with many of the world's leading financial institutions to help them streamline operations, reduce risk, and deliver exceptional client outcomes. Our people play a critical role in driving innovation, solving complex business challenges, and delivering high-quality solutions for clients around the world.

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today's 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.

• 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

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of data migration activities across strategic transformation, platform implementation, and legacy system decommissioning programmes.
• Define and execute migration strategies, including data profiling, mapping, transformation, mock migrations, dress rehearsals, production cutovers, and post-migration validation.
• Analyse complex source and target data models, develop transformation rules, and ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Design and perform reconciliation processes across financial, policy, and client data, investigating discrepancies and driving resolution of migration defects.
• Collaborate closely with Technology, Operations, Finance, Actuarial, Delivery, and Client stakeholders to ensure successful migration planning and execution.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate data migration risks while maintaining governance, auditability, and compliance with regulatory and business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement by enhancing migration processes, automation, tooling, and best practices across programmes.

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end data migration projects within large, complex technology or business transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of ETL processes, data extraction, transformation, mapping, reconciliation, and migration methodologies.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills, with experience using data migration and validation tools.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets, legacy platforms, and modern target systems.
• Financial services experience, ideally within Life & Pensions, Wealth Management, Asset Management, or Insurance.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, governance, audit requirements, and financial reconciliation processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into clear business impact.
• A proactive, delivery-focused mindset with the ability to work effectively in fast-paced, programme-critical environments.

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! To further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website at 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.