Senior Python Developer

Our partner is looking for a multifaceted Python Developer to play a critical role with the Data Engineering team. You will be part of the team working to deliver paginated reports, data through API driven request, data element visualizations and grid-based reports in a near real time manner. You will work with a team of internal and external resources in design and objectives, and drive overall platform performance.

The ideal candidate will have solid experience in a technical position and be adept at interpreting customer deliverables and platform opportunities.

Key Areas of responsibility:

• Actively participating in creation (or facilitation) of specifications
• Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements
• Work with the team to brainstorm the technical solution
• Arrive at a consensus for solution architecture and design
• Ensuring quality of the end deliverable

● Establishing and executing the deployment strategy

● Communicate status updates

Requirements

• Comfortable with iterative development
• A thorough understanding of software processes (development, configuration, testing, and deployment)
• Be a motivated self-starter who is also a team player with great cross-group collaboration skills
• Excellent oral and communication skills
• Track record of successfully delivering high quality projects on time in a fast-paced/rapidly changing environment
• Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices
• 5 to 8+ years of relevant work experience in software development using Python

o (Extensive background in Python development methodologies)

• 3 to 5+ years of relevant work experience in SQL and AWS Services

● Experience with large, cross-functional technical projects

• Experience delivering production‐grade software
• Experience with data movement across multiple database platforms
• Extensive experience troubleshooting internal and externally developed code.
• Experience with Spark and Parquet a plus
• Comfortable handling scope change and uncertainty
• Ability to assist others in their work and assess the quality of other’s work.
• Excited to learn new technologies
• Enjoys solving problems / finding new solutions to technical challenges

● CI/CD practices

• Atlassian JIRA experience a plus

Benefits

• 5 extra days off per year (not available for contractors).
• Participation in professional events, workshops and hackathons.
• Provision of a modern company laptop.
• Flexible working hours with the opportunity to achieve a work-life balance.
• Team building programmes where building community and strengthening relationships is a priority.