Lead Pyspark Developer [Strong in Python / Pyspark / trading system] - immeidate joiner

Luxoft India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft India is seeking an experienced data engineer to advance a surveillance platform. The role emphasizes PySpark development, Python expertise, and building scalable data pipelines to handle large data batches with robust error handling.

You will guide a development team, work with SQL/NoSQL data stores, and implement modern techniques including Gen AI awareness. The position is full-time and based in Hyderabad, India.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data intensive PySpark development
• Experience in leading a development team
• Proven experience as a Core Python developer
• Good understanding of Gen AI
• Strong knowledge of DB connectivity, data loading, transformation
• Extensive experience in Pandas/Numpy dataframes
• Knowledge of Lambda Functions and Decorators
• Vector operations on Pandas dataframes/series
• Experience with apply/map functions
• Ability to design data pipelines for concurrent processing
• Working with Git and service-oriented architectures

Responsibilities

• Develop software applications based on business requirements
• Maintain software applications and implement enhancements
• Participate in requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment
• Propose new techniques and technologies for software development
• Perform unit and user acceptance testing
• Ensure tasks are completed within deadlines
• Follow coding standards and best practices
• Provide guidance to junior developers
• Review code and suggest improvements
• Review requirements and translate into technical designs
• Create documentation and technical specs
• Serve as primary contact for development queries
• Analyze and resolve development issues

Skills

PySpark dev

Python core

Lead a team

Gen AI awareness

DB connectivity

Pandas/Numpy

Spark optimization

Lambda functions

Decorators

Data pipelines

Concurrency handling

Git

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

Jira

Git

Job description

Surveillance Enhancement Program (SEP) is a multi-year program (MYP) to build and enhance the surveillance platform to detect potential instances of market misconduct, market manipulation and market abuse. The Bank met its commitment to FCA (Financial Conduct Authority, FCA) to meet Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") requirements for critical data sources in September 2017. Following that, subsequent projects were initiated to further enhance, expand and complement the current coverage of the automated surveillance platform. This project will focus on Alerts enhancements, Strategic data sourcing from FM order and trade lakes, UI / workflow enhancements to meet regulatory obligations (i.e. Market Abuse Regulation, Dodd Frank). This also includes Control Room & Suitability Monitoring related data, UI and scenario enhancements.

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.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in data intensive Pyspark development ,Window Functions , Performance Optimization ,Spark Architecture,Salting ,Column Pruning
• Must have experience in leading a Development Team
• Proven experience as a Core Python developer
• Good understanding of Gen AI
• 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 apply map, 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
• Working with Git source control Service-orientated architecture, including the ability to consider integrations with other applications and services
• Debugging application

Preferred Skills

• Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
• Knowledge of web backend technology - Django, Python, PostgreSQL.
• 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