Python/Spark Developer
3 days ago
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Axelon Services Corporation
Full-time
$70 - $75/hour
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Pay rate range: $ 70 .00 - $ 75 .00 Negotiable based upon years of experience
Global Financial Firm located in MISSISSAUGA, ON has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Python/Spark Developer.
Work Mode: Hybrid
Location: Mississauga, ON
This role is for an existing vacancy.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, optimize, and maintain scalable data pipelines for processing and analyzing large-scale financial data.
- Lead projects for developing batch pipeline processes for credit risk analytics, including stress loss and expected credit loss.
- Ensure efficient storage and retrieval of all risk data in big data platform systems such as Hadoop, Hive, Impala, and Spark.
- Implement best practices for Spark performance tuning, including partitioning, caching, and memory management.
- Maintain code quality through high-efficiency testing, CI/CD pipelines, and version control.
Requirements:
- Minimum 7 years of software development experience with at least 5 years of hands-on Python and Apache Spark development in enterprise environments.
- Experience building backend applications and services using Python, not solely data engineering or analytics solutions.
- Proficient in OOP, OOD, exception handling, concurrency, and functional programming concepts.
- Minimum 5 years of experience with strong SQL skills using enterprise databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL. Experience with NoSQL platforms is a plus.
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading/owning software development projects from beginning to end with multiple team members.
- Experience working in financial market and credit risk enterprise software systems, including scenario analysis and stress testing.
- Experience with GitHub, Tekton, Harness, and other CI/CD pipeline technologies.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced TechFin environment.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity.