Senior Pyspark Developer (with Banking/Capital Markets)
Project description
We need a Senior Pyspark Developer to work for a leading investment bank client in Trade Surveillance Team.
Responsibilities
- Develop software applications based on business requirements
- Maintain software applications and make enhancements according to project specifications
- Participate in requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation activities
- Propose new techniques and technologies for software development.
- Perform unit testing and user acceptance testing to evaluate application functionality
- Ensure to complete the assigned development tasks within the deadlines
- Work in compliance with coding standards and best practices
- Provide assistance to Junior Developers when needed.
- Perform code reviews and recommend improvements.
- Review business requirements and recommend changes to develop reliable applications.
- Develop coding documentation and other technical specifications for assigned projects.
- Act as primary contact for development queries and concerns.
- Analyze and resolve development issues accurately.
SKILLS
Must have
- 6+ years of experience in data intensive Pyspark development
- Experience as a core Python developer
- Must have current project experience in Banking/Capital Markets industry
- Basic experience in Gen/Agentic AI
- Experience developing Classes, OOPS, exception handling, parallel processing
- Strong knowledge of DB connectivity, data loading , transformation, calculation
- Extensive experience in Pandas/Numpy dataframes, slicing, data wrangling, aggregations
- Lambda Functions, Decorators
- Vector operations on Pandas dataframes /series
- Application of applymap, apply, map functions
- Concurrency and error handling data pipeline batch of size [1-10 gb]
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Ability to design architecture of data pipeline for concurrent data processing
- Familiar with creating/designing RESTful services and APIs
- Familiar with application unit tests
- Working with Git source control Service-orientated architecture, including the ability to consider integrations with other applications and services
- Debugging application
Nice to have
• Knowledge of web backend technology - Django, Python, PostgreSQL. • Apache Airflow • Atlassian Jira • Understanding of Financial Markets Asset Classes (FX, FI, Equities, Rates, Commodities & Credit), various trade types (OTC, exchange traded, Spot, Forward, Swap, Options) and related systems is a plus • Surveillance domain knowledge, regulations (MAR, MIFID, CAT, Dodd Frank) and related Systems knowledge is certainly a plus
