Company Overview
Driven by people, data and technology, First Derivative unlocks the value of insight, hindsight, and foresight to drive organisations forward. Counting many of the world’s leading investment banks as clients, First Derivative helps its clients navigate the data-driven, digital revolution that is both disrupting and transforming the Financial Services sector. We currently employ approximately 1800 people across our global offices.
About the job
Are you a technologist who has a hunger to dig deep and get involved in providing first-class solutions to real-world problems?
First Derivative is a people-first company. We are powered by our ever-growing teams of specialist problem-solvers and process-evolvers. Our extensive capabilities offer agile solutions and exciting career opportunities – whether you’re in the early stages of your career, looking for a new direction, or wanting to continue in a position of leadership.
Joining the world’s largest Capital Markets dedicated consultancy, you will have the opportunity to gain exposure to a range of mission-critical projects, tech stacks, clients and a company that prides itself on career development, variety, and flexibility.
Senior Python Developer
Responsibilities/Skills:
Experienced Python Developer to be part of a team working on strategic and tactical projects for the Wholesale Lending business.
Bigdata technologies in use: Hive, Impala, Amazon ECS
Strong knowledge and development experience using Advanced Python, Python based streaming development is preferred, API development, Fast API and web frameworks like Django/Flask.
Hands on software engineer who will be writing code daily
Demonstrate knowledge on code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD. Experience in using confluent Kafka streaming.
Heavy ETL processing in place end to end
Understanding of both relational and non-relational databases
Experience with MongoDB and/or Oracle preferred
Mango DB in scope now and another RDBMS in future
Experience in the financial services industry preferred
Able to write shell & batch programs
Python based streaming and batch jobs
Ability to work independently with end users to gather requirements and design solutions
Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills
Experience in version control tools like GIT, SVN and Bitbucket
Enthusiasm for learning and pursuing development of new skills
FD provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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