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Python Data Engineer | Outside IR35 | London | £700pd | 6 months

VirtueTech Recruitment Group
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Python Data Engineer | Outside IR35 | London | £700pd | 6 months

Our client is a leading global cross asset management house, recently they have had a wider transformation initiative with their Japanese office and are launching several projects to streamline data access and automation. One of the key projects involves the development of a scraper tool that extracts the data from various sources some structured and some unstructured sources such as API's, PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV etc.

In order to build this they are looking for a seasoned Python Engineer who has a good understanding of data engineering as well to help build this from scratch. You will be joining a small team with clearly defined scopes of what needs to be done, however you will need to be confident within problem solving and being comfortable independently owning parts of the project. In addition to this there will be involvement with the stakeholders across the business so being able to confidently hold technical conversations in meetings is essential.

Requirements:
Professional experience as a

Python developer

in a software engineering context
Strong knowledge of

web scraping techniques

and tools (e.g. BeautifulSoup, Requests, Selenium, or Scrapy)
Understanding of website structures, and how to extract data
Knowledge of modern cloud-based data architectures, including Data Lakehouse on Databricks. Experience with Databricks and Azure is highly desirable
Source code management e.g. Azure DevOps, Git
Agile delivery methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban
Knowledge and work management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
Experience building tools or reports in

data-focused trading or reporting environments (nice to have)

Contract Role:
6 months rolling contract
Outside IR35
Up to £700pd
Hybrid working 2 days a week in office (Liverpool Street)
3 days a week from home start time 8am for at least 2-3 days for interaction with offshore stake holders (this can be flexible on days based on personal commitments etc)

If you are interested in the role then please apply with your latest version of your CV!

Python Data Engineer | Outside IR35 | London | £700pd | 6 months

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