Sr. Principal Architect, AI Solutions

AI Solutions Lead – Global Contact Centre

Locations:
New York

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

This could be a global role, e.g. based from UK or US or AUS – so unsure how we would tailor the above?

What You Will Get To Do:

• Own the AI vision for the contact centre:
  Define and lead the global AI strategy across millions of customer interactions per year across voice, chat and digital channels. Serve as the organisation's subject matter expert on Contact Centre AI, identifying opportunities to enhance customer and colleague experiences through practical, scalable application of AI technologies. Champion a customer-first approach, using insight, journey analytics and customer feedback to redesign and continuously improve the end-to-end customer experience, reducing friction across the cradle-to-grave journey while balancing customer, colleague and business outcomes.
• Lead solution design and AI delivery:
  Take an active role in the design, configuration, development and optimisation of AI solutions across virtual agents, agent assist, knowledge automation and conversational AI platforms. Work alongside technology teams and vendors to translate business requirements into deployed solutions, contributing directly to bot design, conversation flows, prompting strategies, testing, tuning and continuous improvement.
• Identify and prioritise AI opportunities:
  Build and manage a roadmap of AI initiatives (virtual agents, agent assist, analytics, routing optimisation, quality automation, etc.) aligned to business outcomes, operational priorities and regulatory requirements. Evaluate opportunities based on value, feasibility and customer impact.
• Select and leverage the right toolsets:
  Act as the senior subject‑matter expert on contact centre AI tools, advising on platform selection, architecture, implementation approaches and best-practice deployment. Provide informed recommendations on where AI can deliver measurable value and where alternative solutions may be more appropriate.
• Drive AI-led transformation and innovation:
  Identify opportunities by combining customer needs, operational challenges and emerging industry best practice. Translate global AI innovations into practical, scalable solutions across complex and diverse customer populations, challenging existing ways of working and driving measurable business improvement.
• Bring external best practice to accelerate change:
  Continuously monitor market trends, competitor activity and advances in AI. Maintain a strong understanding of the contact centre AI landscape and apply proven practices to improve customer journeys, optimise operations and create competitive advantage.
• Integrate with existing infrastructure:
  Work closely with technology teams to design and integrate AI capabilities with our NICE telephony/infrastructure and wider contact centre ecosystem. Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Partner with operations and compliance:
  Collaborate with global operations leaders, Risk and Compliance, HR and Legal to ensure AI solutions are safe, ethical and compliant with financial and people regulations.
• Establish governance and standards:
  Define and maintain frameworks for AI use in the contact centre, including policies, guardrails, performance metrics and review cycles to support effective adoption.
• Deliver measurable business and…