Senior Python Engineer - Privacy & Data Pipelines (Remote)

E Logic; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

E-Logic, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer to support the IRS RAAS SOI division with Python-based analytics, privacy-preserving tools, production pipelines, and dashboards.

Remote, United States, Part-Time Contract Assignment with ~375 hours/year. Responsibilities include developing modular analytical applications, verifying data integrity, and delivering reproducible software within IRS-approved environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in software development supporting analytical, statistical, data-processing, or technical applications.
• Strong experience developing maintainable, transparent, and reproducible code.
• Experience with Python-based development and analytical applications.
• Experience developing software tools, pipelines, dashboards, or applications supporting data analytics.
• Experience with testing, debugging, validation, and production software deployment.
• Experience supporting secure or regulated data environments is highly relevant.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving computation, differential privacy, disclosure avoidance, or statistical data protection is highly desirable.
• Experience working with Federal datasets and applicable confidentiality, security, and governance standards.
• Ability to collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, project managers, statistical analysts, and Government stakeholders.
• Ability to produce comprehensive technical documentation and support user training and knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities

• Develop modular, reusable, and maintainable analytical applications supporting privacy-preserving QOZ statistical reporting.
• Develop Python-based code and applications used for statistical analysis, testing, disclosure avoidance, and automated reporting.
• Support development and implementation of applications that can be adapted for future IRS and Treasury statistical reporting efforts.
• Develop software components that support production analytical workflows and statistical output generation.
• Support implementation of differential privacy and disclosure-avoidance functionality using Tumult Analytics or comparable frameworks.
• Develop and support an evaluation application capable of estimating error rates and bias metrics across different epsilon levels and reporting granularities.
• Support privacy-budget management and validation across analytical outputs.
• Build software that enables SOI analysts to evaluate privacy-utility trade-offs and make informed privacy-parameter selections.
• Integrate software applications with data-processing and analytical pipelines.
• Support end-to-end ETL, statistical analysis, automated output generation, and production workflows.
• Validate analytical codebases and production pipelines upon receipt of TY 2026 data.
• Develop reliable and reproducible software components capable of executing within IRS-approved environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software defects and technical issues.
• Support development of visualizations, dashboards, statistical tables, and other analytical outputs.
• Develop software capabilities supporting internal SOI review and public-facing statistical reporting, as required.
• Ensure software-generated outputs accurately implement approved methodologies and privacy parameters.
• Conduct software testing and validation to ensure functionality, accuracy, reproducibility, and reliability.
• Support validation of code execution within IRS-approved environments.
• Document testing procedures, results, defects, corrective actions, and software changes.
• Develop transparent and reproducible codebases consistent with Federal statistical and technical standards.
• Support quality assurance and resolution of material deficiencies before Government acceptance.
• Optimize software and analytical code for performance, reproducibility, maintainability, and scalability.
• Refine software and analytical processes based on stakeholder feedback, data characteristics, and evolving project requirements.
• Ensure improvements preserve approved statistical outcomes and privacy requirements.
• Fully document software architecture, technical changes, workflows, and operational procedures.
• Develop technical documentation, user guides, troubleshooting procedures, instructional materials, and code walkthroughs.
• Support training workshops and hands-on knowledge-transfer sessions for SOI analysts and data scientists.
• Explain software functionality, analytical workflows, operational procedures, and technical dependencies to Government personnel.
• Support delivery of the final technical environment and artifacts necessary for SOI to sustain independent production.

Skills

Python

Software development

Differential privacy

Data analytics

Testing & QA

Documentation

Collaboration

Tools

None

Job description

E-Logic, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Developer to support the IRS RAAS SOI division with Python-based analytics, privacy-preserving tools, production pipelines, and dashboards.

Remote, United States, Part-Time Contract Assignment with ~375 hours/year. Responsibilities include developing modular analytical applications, verifying data integrity, and delivering reproducible software within IRS-approved environments.