Software Engineer Lead

Software Engineer Lead

Location: Pittsburgh, PA/Cleveland, OH

Initiatives/Projects: Optimizing the existing application to reduce spend year over year.

Industry background: Banking/financial is preferred.

Team Dynamic: Working in a crew of 11-12.

Roles and Responsibilities: Interact with Business to understand the requirement on a daily evolving need and adapt to the needs. Able to understand the business requirements, tech stack involved and guide the team towards an integral solution approach. Dedicated and committed approach, with good communication skills and participation in agile ceremonies. Experience with Object Oriented Programming including limitations. Familiarity with cross-platform development. Able to handle all the database storage and retrieval mechanisms on Data Lake Platforms and extensive experience in handling. Extensive Unix/FTP/File Handling. Strong hands-on experience with SQL databases.

Must Have Technical Skills: A deep understanding and multi-process architecture and the threading limitations of Python. Pyspark data engineering skills. Experience using libraries like Pandas, NumPy and MatPlotLib. With experience working with file based systems (supporting csv/parquet/). Extensive knowledge in understanding data and creating data pipelines. Hands on experience designing and implementing APIs. Hands on experience building microservices using FastAPI or related technologies. Experience writing unit testing and ensure code coverage. Experience with Agile Methodology/JIRA/Confluence. Experience in version control using Git.

Flex Skills/Nice to Have: Added advantage if worked on Big Data, PySpark libraries.

Soft Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Team player.

Education/Certifications: Bachelors required. Python or Spark certifications are a plus.

Ref: #404-IT Pittsburgh