Python Developer

Adaptive Solutions Group is a premier provider of information technology personnel. We provide a variety of technical professionals available for contract, contract to hire, or direct placement positions to companies in and around the Kansas City and St. Louis areas.

We are currently looking for a Python Developer to join our team.

Responsibilities

• The IT Data Services team is responsible for curating and providing access to data assets to internal and external data consumers.
• As the Data Services team implements a cloud-based modern architecture to support its data ingestion and transformation processes, it is also seeking to create a next-generation services layer to provide a platform to expose that data in a scalable, secure way.
• We are expanding our team to include an integration engineer well-versed in AWS serverless components for RESTful API development to implement this next-generation services layer.
• Your areas of expertise include implementing software engineering best practices in design, development, and utilization of APIs in cloud platforms.
• You must have a strong and continuously evolving technical mastery of RESTful API development focused on Python, Lambda, and API Gateway.

This includes hands-on programming, participating in design sessions, code reviews, and system testing during various phases of development.

• You have a passion for hands-on coding, putting quality first, delivering an exceptional experience to customers and driving efficiency through the creation of extendable and re-usable service components.
• As a key member of our team, you will focus on providing viable recommendations for new solutions and refining processes to ensure application development and security standards are met.
• Exercising leadership to enable the team to analyze issues and implement solutions is a main component of your role.
• As subject matter expert for our team, you will be the first point of contact for application product owners integrating with our data assets and will partner with various business, IT, and external teams on a variety of inquiries.
• You will collaborate with management to ensure security compliance during periodic external and internal audit processes.

On-call responsibilities as part of shared team rotation are required.

Required Qualifications

• Must have at least 3 years experience in Python
• Proficient experience with RESTful web services, AWS Lambda and API Gateway
• Knowledge in API security frameworks, token management and user access control including AWS Cognito / Azure, OAuth, JWT, OpenAI, etc.
• Proficient in querying various data sources including APIs, RDBMSs, document stores, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Java
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field
• AWS Certifications : Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect (Associate), Developer (Associate)
• Experience in CI / CD framework to create / modify CI pipelines using GIT (Bitbucket preferred)
• Experience working on event-based services like SQS, SNS for data integration patterns with applications

Adaptive Solutions Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes medical, dental, STD / LTD, life insurance coverage, 401k, paid vacation and holidays.

Adaptive Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.

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