Python Data Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native

Franklin Templeton; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health Coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)

LEAP education assistance

Employee Investment Benefits

Job summary

Franklin Templeton in Baltimore is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Data, Governance & Integration Platforms Engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain cloud-native data services using Python and AWS, delivering scalable data pipelines and platforms.

This role emphasizes collaboration with architects, data and AI engineers, and product teams, with a hybrid work schedule three days per week at our Baltimore location.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience in data platforms or cloud-native apps.
• Strong Python development with OO design and testing.
• 2+ years AWS experience with S3, Lambda, Glue, EMR, ECS/EKS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Step Functions.
• Experience building reusable frameworks, APIs, libraries, SDKs, or shared platform services.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven data processing.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, IaC and deployment automation (GitLab, Terraform).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain data engineering frameworks, APIs, SDKs, and platform services in Python and AWS.
• Build scalable cloud-native components for batch, real-time, and event-driven data processing.
• Develop configurable data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery pipelines.
• Contribute to data lake and event-driven platform capabilities enabling self-service patterns.
• Create automated delivery pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and IaC.
• Apply best practices for testing, security, observability, and production support.
• Produce technical docs, patterns, and onboarding guidance for engineers.
• Collaborate with architects, data/AI engineers, product teams, and others.

Skills

Python

OO design

AWS

CI/CD

APIs/SDKs

Distributed systems

Testing & observability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Git

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenSearch

Job description

Franklin Templeton in Baltimore is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Data, Governance & Integration Platforms Engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain cloud-native data services using Python and AWS, delivering scalable data pipelines and platforms.

This role emphasizes collaboration with architects, data and AI engineers, and product teams, with a hybrid work schedule three days per week at our Baltimore location.