SENIOR TECHNICAL ENGINEER – PYTHON / .NET / DATABRICKS
Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid role - Must reside in or near Irvine, CA)
Pay Rate: $60–$70 per hour
Duration: 18+ Month Contract
Our financial services client is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Engineer with strong expertise in Python, C#/.NET Core, Databricks, cloud technologies, and modern data engineering. This role combines hands‑on software development, solution architecture, and technical leadership to support complex investment management and financial technology platforms.
Description – Senior Technical Engineer – Python / .NET / Databricks:
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable cloud-native applications and data engineering solutions.
- Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines and processing frameworks using Python, Databricks, SQL, and cloud-based technologies.
- Develop microservices, REST APIs, and enterprise integration solutions using C#/.NET Core and Python.
- Apply AI-first engineering approaches, including generative AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, and data‑driven solutions.
- Design and integrate structured and unstructured data across enterprise applications and platforms.
- Support financial services applications, including investment management, fixed‑income solutions, reporting, and data integration.
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions involving scalability, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Implement software development best practices, including test‑driven development (TDD), code reviews, CI/CD, containerization, and production monitoring.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and hands‑on guidance to software development and engineering teams.
- Troubleshoot complex application, integration, and data‑processing issues across distributed systems.
Qualifications – Senior Technical Engineer – Python / .NET / Databricks:
- Strong hands‑on experience with Databricks, including data pipeline development, optimization, and distributed data processing.
- Advanced programming experience with Python and C#/.NET Core.
- Strong experience developing REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration frameworks.
- Proficiency with SQL, relational databases, and modern data engineering technologies.
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, containerization, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience or strong working knowledge of generative AI, machine learning, and AI‑driven automation.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, application modernization, data integration, and engineering best practices.
- Experience leading technical workstreams, mentoring developers, and contributing to architecture decisions.
- Strong communication, problem‑solving, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated, data‑intensive industry.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Snowflake, dbt, SQL Server, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch.
- Knowledge of investment management systems, fixed‑income technology, or financial data platforms.
- Experience integrating with Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS) or similar investment platforms.
- Familiarity with React, Next.js, or other modern front‑end technologies.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Kibana, or Grafana.
- Exposure to large language models (LLMs), retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), enterprise AI platforms, or MLOps.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise financial applications and cloud‑based data architectures.
Benefits:
- Competitive pay rate of $60–$70 per hour.
- Available health, life, vision, and dental insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- Long‑term contract opportunity (18+ months).
- Opportunity to work with modern cloud, AI, and data engineering technologies.
- Collaborative engineering environment with opportunities for technical leadership and professional growth.