Python Developer - Glasgow - Inside IR35 - Hybrid
Day Rate - Up to £550
Duration - 12 months
Harvey Nash's Financial Service Client are looking to bring in a contract Python Developer, you will be required onsite 3 days per week, in their Glasgow office. You will be responsible for:
Primary responsibilities:
You will be working with a global team of programming-language subject matter experts, as well as developers, data scientists and technical leads across the entire firm.
Contribute to the team in devising common language/framework usage blueprints, bringing in industry-standard development tools as well as engineering internal tools and libraries where necessary. In particular, we are looking for a candidate who is
Have the opportunity to become the firm's primary point-of-contact for our R language user community, which is predominantly comprised of data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists and business analysts.
You will help team set up and troubleshoot their development environments, evaluate and onboard 3rd party libraries, and author documentation.
Author tooling and automation to make this experience as productive and low-touch as possible.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Core Python development
* Prior R experience (or willingness to learn on the job)
* Understanding of common development patterns such as IDE usage and interactive notebooks (e.g. Jupyter)
* Familiarity with the enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
* Familiarity with Linux
* Good communication/organisation skills
* Prior track record of leading technical delivery at feature level and/or serving as a key escalation point of contact
Skills desired:
* Prior experience with OCI containerisation tools/platforms (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
* High-level understanding of Windows development
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