Senior Python Engineer, Tech Lead - Data Intelligence Gateway (DIG)

Description

A&M Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG) has an exciting opportunity to join a growing team. A&M DIG is a proprietary technology that utilizes the active collection of unstructured data through open-source intelligence and leverages machine learning to create private company insights. A&M DIG works in conjunction with Alvarez & Marsal, an established leader in providing global leadership and advisory services to a variety of diverse industries.

A&M DIG is seeking a Python Engineer to bring their energy, passion and expertise to help our clients get the insights needed to discover and explore private company data. You will help our M&A clients validate investment theses, find companies in fragmented industries and explore potential market opportunities.

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Python Engineer and Tech Lead, you will have the opportunity to work with the A&M DIG team on a variety of interesting projects. You will be interacting with internal stakeholders to build a truly unique offering to the private equity market.

Responsibilities Include: 

• Take part in technical leadership, system architecture, and the iterative development of the DIG team's code base

• Mentor juniors in engineering best practices, including code reviews, good testing practices, design, and implementation

• Help design, build and maintain scalable, available, and robust systems to acquire, ingest, process and analyze data 

• Elevate experimental machine learning applications and features developed by our analytics team to production grade.

• Continuously improve upon our tooling architecture via improvements of the existing systems.

• Communicate work to and receive feedback by technical and non-technical audiences.

• Occasionally participate in the interview process of future DIG engineers, including coding and system design interviews

 Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (computer science, engineering, etc.)

• 3+ years of relevant experience, including having participated in system design interviews

• experience providing technical leadership and/or mentorship

• Solid experience with at least one modern programming language (Python, Scala, Java, Go, R)

• Good knowledge and understanding of HTML/CSS/JS in the modern web

• Experience working and interfacing with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

• Experience with distributed systems

• Experience with web crawling and scraping

• Some experience using cloud computing platforms to build processes (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)

• Test-driven development (TDD), test automation, CI / CD experience

• Knowledge of DevOps principles

• Exceptional project management skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Flexibility to work as both a team member in a collaborative setting and as an individual contributor

• Ability to thrive and be effective in fast-paced settings

• Ability to work independently in remote and hybrid workplace settings

The annual base salary range is $160,000 - $200,000, commensurate with experience. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.  Please ask your recruiter for details. 

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