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Senior Python Engineer
CFC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureLinuxPostgresPythonSQL
About the role
- Work within the Cyber Data Services team supporting CFC's Proactive Insurance product offering
- Play a key role in developing competitive advantage in aggregating, presenting, and analysing large datasets
- Contribute to development of proprietary data platform and solve problems to protect policyholders
- Design and implement new data capabilities: ingesting large datasets, building robust high-performance APIs, consuming high-frequency event streams
- Contribute using standard tech stack: Python, Linux (WSL), PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Databricks, Azure and AWS
- Participate in design and implementation of advanced mechanisms for data ingestion and transformation and mass-parallel orchestration of network I/O
- Maintain Infrastructure as Code and work with infrastructure teams to develop engineering platform features
- Model data for operational and analytical purposes and collaborate with other teams and analytical data customers
- Work on indicators of data quality and improve data quality across key metrics
- Evaluate completeness and accuracy of potential new data sources
- Contribute to CI/CD quality automation, test automation, and maintain good documentation
- Participate in a pairing-first development team and mentor/coach less experienced members
- Assess application security compliance with CFC standards and evaluate APIs for compliance
Requirements
- Able to grasp, articulate, and advocate for technological solutions in both technical and non-technical settings and apply agile principles
- Able to interrogate and present data and data analysis and willingness to present results
- Demonstrable experience as a senior software developer or engineer with a focus on Python
- Love SQL (Postgres, SQL Server, Databricks)
- Comfortable working without an ORM
- Familiar with the challenges of working with data at scale
- Prefer the command line use of git, bash/zsh, and (optionally) vim
- Undergraduate degree or demonstrable knowledge and experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Logic, Applied Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, or related discipline
Benefits
- Love what you do: We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
- Challenge everything: We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
- Have fun, be good: Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonSQLPostgreSQLSQL ServerDatabricksAzureAWSInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDdata modeling
Soft skills
communicationmentoringproblem-solvingdata analysisadvocacycollaborationagile principlespresentation skillsinterrogation of datateamwork
