Senior Python Developer

Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact.

At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your Role and Responsibilities We are seeking a Senior Software Developer with advanced Python expertise to join our team and drive high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll focus on building robust data processing pipelines and cloud-native applications while maintaining engineering excellence and delivery speed.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high-quality Python applications with clean architecture and design patterns
• Build and optimize large-scale data/document processing pipelines with a focus on resilience and performance
• Implement event-driven architectures using messaging services (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and delivery
• Deploy and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes with Helm charts
• Design solutions for observability, monitoring, and pipeline status tracking
• Implement rate limiting, retry logic, and failure recovery mechanisms
• Optimize system performance and eliminate bottlenecks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to push delivery speed without compromising quality
• Mentor team members on Python best practices and software engineering principles
• Ensure code quality through reviews, testing, and adherence to engineering standards

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Advanced Python - Strong software engineering background with a deep understanding of code quality, design patterns, and best practices
• AWS Cloud - Hands-on experience with cloud environments and services
• DevOps Principles - Expertise in CI/CD automation, containerization, and orchestration
• Kubernetes - Solid understanding of deployments, Helm charts, and container orchestration

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Event/Messaging Systems - Developer experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar technologies
• Large-Scale Data Pipelines - Proven track record building resilient, observable processing pipelines
• Pipeline Architecture - Experience with rate limiting, retry mechanisms, failure handling, and bottleneck optimization

About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market-leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration.

We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners, and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career; you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth-minded, always staying curious, open to feedback, and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide ongoing feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team-focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions every day is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude, and always striving for an outcome-focused approach within everything that they do.

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