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Senior Software Engineer, Python, PySpark
Posted 4 months ago
About the role
- Senior Software Engineer tackling complex data challenges for a major social media client. Join Capgemini Engineering to leverage big data technologies in an innovative environment.
Responsibilities
- Receive tasks from the Project Lead or Team Lead (TL), prepare functional and design specifications, and align them with all stakeholders
- Ensure assigned areas are delivered on time and meet quality expectations
- Provide effort estimations, agree on timelines with the manager, and contribute to project planning
- Evaluate existing data systems and identify improvement opportunities
- Develop best practices for data coding to ensure system-wide consistency
- Update and optimize local and metadata models
- Assess implemented data systems for discrepancies, variances, and performance efficiency
- Troubleshoot and optimize data infrastructure and pipelines
- Understand business drivers and analytical use cases, translating them into reliable data products
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based pipelines that deliver business-critical data efficiently
- Identify area-level risks and implement mitigation plans
- Report readiness/quality status and escalate critical issues appropriately
- Take responsibility for resolving crisis situations within the assigned area of responsibility (AOR)
- Initiate and conduct code reviews, and help establish coding standards, conventions, and guidelines
- Propose technical and functional improvements to enhance the product
- Continuously upgrade professional knowledge and skills
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with strong Python development skills, including hands-on PySpark and Apache Spark implementation
- Mid-level Java proficiency (minimum 2.5/5), with practical experience writing, debugging, and maintaining Java code
- 3+ years of experience building, operating, and supporting large-scale, scalable Big Data platforms or infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of Big Data technologies, including: Apache Spark, Hadoop ecosystem, Parquet / ORC file formats, Apache Flink (or similar stream-processing frameworks)
- Proven troubleshooting and production support skills, including the ability to handle SEV-1 / critical production incidents under pressure
- Strong ability to organize, document, and communicate solutions, including technical design, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational runbooks
- A passion for streamlining systems and processes to make the difficult trivial
- Strong OOP skills
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), and Docker.
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
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