Senior Python Consultant @ NYC, NY (Locals or nearby)

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Title: Senior Python Consultant

Location: NYC, NY (Locals or nearby)

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: DOE

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement a modern data and forecasting platform that powers critical Firm functions, leveraging Python pipelines, robust schemas, and secure APIs to deliver governed, highquality inputs for model execution.
• Collaborate closely with senior Finance leaders, platform engineers, and data owners to transform business requirements into innovative technical solutions and deliver value through incremental, highimpact releases.
• Apply AIdriven techniques and agentic approaches to accelerate development, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance the intelligence of forecasting workflows.
• Contribute to components that orchestrate model runs, manage dependencies, and standardize inputs/outputs across forecasting workflows.
• Ship wellstructured Python code and unit/integration tests; ensure performance, reliability, and numerical consistency of model results.
• Investigate data and execution issues endtoend (pipelines, mappings, orchestration) and implement durable fixes and safeguards.
• Use version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD to maintain quality and traceability across the platform.
• Provide thoughtful, constructive feedback; uphold standards for readability, performance, and data governance.
• Produce technical specs, API contracts, and runbooks that make services easy to understand, operate, and audit.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cycle time (e.g., caching, schema normalization, reusable libraries) and strengthen controls for regulated processes.
• Engage in training and upskilling (Python, data engineering, platform tooling, Agentic AI) and share learnings with the team.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong Python skills for building data pipelines, orchestration services, and automation; experience with libraries such as Pandas or NumPy is a plus.
• Foundational data science knowledge ability to work with structured data, apply basic statistical concepts, and understand data quality principles.
• Ability to engage with the broader team, communicate goals, tasks, and deliverables effectively in 11 and team settings.
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of databases, data structures, and query languages (SQL preferred).
• Willingness to learn new technologies and tools, including AIdriven development approaches.
• Knowledge of Java is a plus (experience with Java or other objectoriented languages will be considered an asset).
• Typically, 2+ years of relevant experience to demonstrate the skills required for this role.
• Prior exposure to the finance or investment banking domain.

Additional Skills (Good to Have):

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a global team environment.
• Dynamic, flexible, and eager to learn new technologies; solution-oriented and adaptable to changing priorities.