Senior Python Developer

Primary Talent Partners, LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 112,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Primary Talent Partners is seeking a Senior Python Developer in Charlotte, NC, to join the Torque Team on a 12-month contract with potential extension. The role focuses on platform engineering to enable secure, governed data access and scalable APIs across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate will combine hands-on coding in Python with technical leadership, building platform services and driving standardization, automation, and self-service capabilities.

Qualifications

• Must be a Software Engineer with Platform Engineering experience - not a traditional Data Engineer.
• 5+ years in Software, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and support secure, governed, API-driven data access capabilities.
• Build APIs, automation services, and self-service tooling for platform consumers.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve observability.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and consuming product teams to balance speed with long-term platform health.

Skills

Python

Platform engineering

APIs

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

IAM

Job description

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Senior Python Developer with our large power and utilities client in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12-month contract with a potential for extension.

Pay:

$81.00 - $91.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Description:

The Torque Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer operating at or near a Lead Engineer level to help deliver, support, and strategically evolve the enterprise platform that enables secure, governed, data access across company.

We are prioritizing Software Engineers with Platform Engineering experience over traditional Data Engineers. The ideal candidate builds and operates secure, scalable platform services (APIs, access management, infrastructure automation).

• This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership.
• The successful candidate will not only build and support platform capabilities but will also help determine the most effective and efficient way to deliver them - thinking beyond individual tickets or teams to the enterprise-wide scale, security, governance, and sustainability of these platforms.
• A technical coding assessment is part of the interview process, and candidates must be able to code hands-on - this is non-negotiable.

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery & Support

• Design, build, test, and support - secure, governed, API-driven data access capabilities.
• Build APIs, automation services, and self-service tooling for platform consumers.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve observability.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.
• Contribute to reusable engineering patterns and platform standards.

Communication, Engagement & Availability

• The Torque Team is primarily NOT co-located, and the majority of collaboration happens through virtual meetings and chat. As a result, strong communication and engagement habits are considered a core job requirement. These skills are as important as technical ability when screening candidates.
• Must be an active, engaged participant in virtual meetings - camera on, prepared, and contributing rather than passively attending.
• Must proactively participate/communicate rather than waiting to be asked, since there is no hallway conversation to catch issues informally.
• Must be comfortable driving and participating in technical discussions, design reviews, and troubleshooting sessions over Teams/virtual channels.

Strategic & Leadership Expectations

Beyond day-to-day delivery, this engineer is expected to act as a technical leader for the platform portfolio:

• Evaluate solution options for scalability, security, supportability, and enterprise-wide impact
• Identify the most effective and efficient way to deliver, favoring standardization, automation, and self-service over one-off fixes.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and consuming product teams to balance speed with long-term platform health.

Requirement:

• Minimum Bar
• Engineering Profile
• Must be a Software Engineer with Platform Engineering experience - not a traditional Data Engineer
• Overall Experience
• 5+ years in Software, Cloud, or Platform Engineering

Required Technical Skills:

• AWS Services
• Category
• Services
• Access & Security
• IAM, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Lake Formation (access policy enforcement), Entra AD
• Compute & Containers
• Lambda, Kubernetes, EKS, Docker
• Storage & Data
• Open Table Format S3 (Iceberg), RDS/PostgreSQL, Redshift, Glue (Catalog, ETL, Crawler), Athena
• Platform & Software Engineering

Skills:

• Coding
• Strong hands-on coding in Python
• Infrastructure
• Terraform Enterprise, Infrastructure as Code, Git
• Delivery
• CI/CD pipelines, API design, GitHub

Preferred / Nice-to-Have: Skills

• Streaming & Messaging
• Kafka, Kafka Schema Registry
• Additional AWS
• Step Functions, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Tooling
• Vault/Secrets Management platforms

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affinitive Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail]

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