Senior Performance Engineer

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
Title:
Senior Performance Engineer
Location: Australia [Preferably Melbourne/Sydney] || Hybrid
Job Type: Full Time || Permanent
Job Description
Get To Know Us:*
SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company's operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
• Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
• Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more

Please note that this role can be based in Parramatta, Sydney, Melbourne, Wollongong or Hobart
What You Will Get to Do:
As a Senior Performance Engineer with strong .NET development and SQL server expertise, you will lead the design and execution of performance engineering strategies across complex enterprise systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and optimal user experience. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify bottlenecks, analyse system behaviour under load, and drive performance improvements through data-driven insights and automation.

We are seeking a senior performance engineer with strong .NET development and SQL server expertise with proven 10+ years of overall IT experience to join our growing team of performance engineers and testers. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem solver, capable of optimizing systems and collaborating effectively across teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Partner with performance testers to triage test results, investigate issues and identify root causes.
• Troubleshoot and resolves complex performance problems in .NET application and SQL Server:
• Design and optimize relational databases (MSSQL) with a focus on performance.
• Tune SQL queries, indexes, filegroups and database schema for performance improvements.
• Implement and manage DB objects: indexes, stored procedures, triggers, views, CTEs.
• Analyze and improve query execution plans and performance metrics.
• Develop robust applications using C#/VB.Net with strong OOP principles.
• Apply multi-threading, LINQ, TPL, and ASP.Net for efficient processing.
• Contribute to microservices architecture and apply SOLID principles.
• Enhance monitoring, logging and metrics for better detection and diagnosis oof performance issues.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to provide input on performance risks and design considerations.
• Review and drive the incorporation of performance best practices and optimizations from mature UK program into the AU program, guided by performance risk profiles.

What You Will Bring:
*Technical Skills*

• Strong .NET development background: .NET: C#/VB.Net, OOP, multi-threading, LINQ, TPL, ASP.Net.

• Expert MSSQL server knowledge including:

• DB design, normalization/de-normalization, performance tuning.

• Query optimization and execution plan analysis.

• Index and filegroup design/management

• Schema and stored procedure optimization

• Understanding of database internals (locking, blocking, deadlocks, transactions)
• Preferred experience within superannuation, wealth management or other financial services domain.
• Experience working with large enterprise environments, with complex, high volume systems.
• Desirable: Exposure to microservices and SOLID principles, Design Patterns, SOA-based architecture. RESTful Web APIs

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical, statistical, and presentational skills and critical thinking to identify and solve complex problems.
• Exceptional attention to detail. Understanding task objectives and expected outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with both technical and non-technical audiences at all organizational levels.
• Clear, concise, consistent written and verbal communication, demonstrating understanding of target audiences and stakeholders.
• Strategic and critical thinker to anticipate risks, resolve complex blockers, drive effective delivery.
• Growth mindset and rapid learning ability to adapt to complex, fast-changing program.
• Maintain awareness of external activities/schedules, factors, events, etc. that may influence or impact deliverables. Manage impact and stakeholder expectations on deliverables.
• Ability to work independently and in team environments.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies.

If you're ready to bring your expertise to a collaborative team and lead impactful QA initiatives, we'd love to hear from you

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 @

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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.