Day Rate - Up to 550

Duration - 12 months

Harvey Nash's Financial Service Client are looking to bring in a contract Python Developer, you will be required onsite 3 days per week, in their Glasgow office. You will be responsible for:

Primary responsibilities:

• You will be working with a global team of programming-language subject matter experts, as well as developers, data scientists and technical leads across the entire firm.
• Contribute to the team in devising common language/framework usage blueprints, bringing in industry-standard development tools as well as engineering internal tools and libraries where necessary.
• In particular, we are looking for a candidate who is
• Have the opportunity to become the firm's primary point-of-contact for our R language user community, which is predominantly comprised of data scientists, researchers, quantitative strategists and business analysts.
• You will help team set up and troubleshoot their development environments, evaluate and onboard 3rd party libraries, and author documentation.
• Author tooling and automation to make this experience as productive and low-touch as possible.

Required Skills & Qualifications:
. Core Python development
. Prior R experience (or willingness to learn on the job)
. Understanding of common development patterns such as IDE usage and interactive notebooks (eg Jupyter)
. Familiarity with the enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
. Familiarity with Linux
. Good communication/organisation skills
. Prior track record of leading technical delivery at feature level and/or serving as a key escalation point of contact

Skills desired:
. Prior experience with OCI containerisation tools/platforms (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
. High-level understanding of Windows development