Python & Database Developer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Python & Database Developer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New York, NY.

Responsibilities:
Seeking a highly motivated Python & Database Developer to join the Data Quality (DQ) Engineering team.

• The role focuses on building and enhancing enterprise-scale data quality solutions that enable data governance, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and risk management across the organization.
• The candidate will design and develop data quality frameworks, APIs, automation solutions, and database-driven applications that support onboarding, validation, monitoring, alerting, remediation, and reporting of data quality issues across multiple business domains.
• The role will contribute to the evolution of the DQ platform and related data management initiatives.

Required Skills:

• 5-7 years of Python & Database experience
• Strong proficiency of Python with experience developing production-grade data processing pipelines
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming (OOP)
• Good knowledge of Database concepts and writing SQL queries and Stored Procedures and query optimization
• Expertise in FastAPI framework for building service endpoints and asynchronous processing systems
• Working knowledge of Unix
• Experience with version control tools (preferably Git)
• Writing unit tests (e.g. using pytest)
• Self-starter with ability to work in a fast paced environment and be able to work on multiple projects
• Experience of working in Agile Squads is good to have
• Finance data domain knowledge is also desired

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of model performance monitoring, model debugging, and logging systems within AI applications
• Experience with containerization and deployment of ML services in enterprise environments
• Experience with anomaly detection algorithms and techniques, particularly isolation forest, clustering, time series analysis, and pattern mining
• Design and deploy generative AI solutions using LLMs and multimodal models to solve business problems
• Expertise in pandas and familiarity in scikit-learn libraries for data manipulation and machine learning model implementation

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