Python/Spark Developer

Global Financial Firm located in TAMPA, FL has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Python/Spark Developer

Pay Rate: $84.00 - $89.00 Negotiable based upon years of experience

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Tampa, FL

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 (GSST, CCAR) and expected credit loss (CECL, IFRS9, ICAAP).
• Ensure efficient storage and retrieval of all risk data in big data platform systems (Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Spark, etc.).
• Implement best practices for Spark performance tuning including partitioning, caching, and memory management.
• Maintain code quality through high-efficiency testing, CI/CD pipelines (Tekton, Harness), and version control (GitHub).

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.
• Proficiency in OOP, OOD, exception handling, concurrency, and functional programming concepts.
• Strong SQL skills with 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.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Devin, or similar technologies to improve engineering productivity.