Hybrid with four days onsite and one day remote.
Duration: (12 Months)One-year contract
Schedule: Monday-Friday, core business hours; no overtime or travel.
Job Description
Client is seeking an Application Developer - Sr Python Engineer to support a project-based vendor integration initiative. The engineer will design and maintain secure, scalable Python microservices and APIs, connect platforms and data through REST/gRPC and event-driven patterns, and modernize data solutions across Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Azure SQL, Unity Catalog, and SQL. This role offers a long-term one-year contract, meaningful exposure to cloud-native engineering and data-platform modernization, and collaboration with experienced technology, platform, security, and business partners.
Experience: 10+ years of software engineering, including enterprise Python.
Responsibilities:
Application and platform engineering
- Design, develop, test, document, and maintain secure Python microservices using Fast API.
- Build RESTful, gRPC, internal platform, data-ingestion, event-driven, batch-processing, and authentication/authorization APIs.
- Deploy and operate services using Docker and Kubernetes, with Redis and Kafka where appropriate.
- Create reusable frameworks, automation, and orchestration patterns that improve delivery quality and reliability.
- Translate complex requirements into practical, production-ready solutions with technology and business partners.
Data engineering and operational excellence
- Build and optimize data solutions using Python, PySpark, Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, ADLS, Clienture Data Factory, Airflow, Clienture SQL, Unity Catalog, and SQL.
- Troubleshoot production issues, tune performance, and support releases and readiness activities.
- Implement testing, monitoring, authentication, authorization, compliance, and reliability practices.
- Partner with security, platform, engineering, and business teams to deliver governed capabilities.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer and technical documentation.
Required Skillsets
- Python: Senior hands-on enterprise development.
- Fast API: Production microservice development.
- API design: REST/gRPC and multiple API patterns.
- Docker/Kubernetes: Containerized deployment and orchestration.
- Redis/Kafka: Caching, messaging, and event-driven architecture.
- PySpark: Distributed data processing.
- Azure data platform: Databricks, Delta Lake, ADLS, Data Factory, Azure SQL, and Unity Catalog.
- Airflow/SQL: Workflow orchestration and relational querying.
- Security and quality: Authentication, authorization, testing, monitoring, compliance, and reliability.
- Enterprise delivery: Troubleshooting, release support, documentation, and cross-team execution.
Preferred Skillsets
- High-volume enterprise services or pipelines.
- Reusable internal frameworks and shared services.
- Internal developer-platform capabilities.
- AI-assisted development, testing, or documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Experience partnering with security and governance teams.
- Performance tuning and production-readiness ownership.
- Vendor-integration or complex platform-integration experience.
Education: University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
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