{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"c903e82c654417e21f18b7ec","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c903e82c654417e21f18b7ec","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/c903e82c654417e21f18b7ec","title":"Data Engineer (Python, AWS Glue, Airflow, Lambda)","description":"Fort Mill, SC, United States (On-site)\nContract (6 months 16 days)\nPublished 2 days ago\nMonitoring & Logging\nREST API development\nroot cause analysis\nproblem - solving and communication skills\nDevOps & CI/CD\nPython\nterraform\nproduction support\nAWS lambda\nThe Senior API Engineer (Python / AWS) is a critical member of the Data Modernization & Integration organization. This role is responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating high quality, cloud native REST APIs that power LPL’s core business platforms and integrations.\nThis engineer will focus primarily on Python-based API development on AWS, leveraging services such as API Gateway, Lambda, and related AWS components, with all infrastructure managed through Terraform. The role plays an important part in modernizing legacy integrations and defining engineering standards for reliable, secure, and scalable API services.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep hands-on Python API engineering expertise with strong cloud architecture skills, a passion for automation, and the ability to collaborate across platform, data, security, and application teams.\n\nResponsibilities:\nAPI Engineering & Application Development:\nDesign, develop, and maintain Python based REST APIs that support business critical workflows.\nBuild APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, following API first and REST best practices.\nImplement clean, testable, and well documented Python code suitable for enterprise production environments.\nOptimize API performance, reliability, scalability, and error handling.\nEnsure proper API versioning, contract stability, and backward compatibility.\n\nSecurity & Access Management:\nImplement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, and IAM based access.\nEnforce API security controls including request validation, throttling, rate limiting, and auditing.\nPartner with security teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise security and compliance standards.\n\nAutomation & Infrastructure Engineering:\nProvision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform.\nCreate and maintain reusable Terraform modules for:\nAPI Gateway\nLambda\nIAM roles and policies\nCloudWatch logging and monitoring\nEnsure environment consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD.\n\nCI/CD & Operational Excellence:\nDesign and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment of Python APIs.\nSupport automated testing, packaging, versioning, and release management.\nImplement observability through logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing.\nParticipate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support activities.\n\nCross Team Collaboration:\nCollaborate closely with application teams, platform engineering, cloud, and security teams.\nAlign API design and implementation with enterprise architectural standards.\nActively contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.\nPromote best practices and a culture of engineering excellence.\nStrategic Influence:\nInfluence API engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.\nContribute to architectural reviews and modernization efforts.\nHelp drive consistent, scalable, and maintainable cloud native API solutions.\n\nWhat Are We Looking For:\nWe are looking for strong collaborators who deliver reliable, secure, and high quality API solutions in fast paced, team oriented environments. Ideal candidates pursue technical excellence, act with integrity, and are motivated to build scalable platforms that enable business growth. We value continuous improvement, curiosity, and individuals who take ownership and pride in their work.\n\nRequirements:\n7+ years of experience in software engineering, API engineering, or cloud application development.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).\nDemonstrated hands-on experience with:\nPython for backend and API development\nREST API design and implementation\nAWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway\nTerraform for Infrastructure as Code\nExperience building and operating APIs in large scale, production environments.\nStrong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.\nExperience with CI/CD, Git based workflows, and automated testing.\nAbility to troubleshoot production issues and support on call rotations when required.\n\nCore Competencies:\nAPI Design Mindset — builds clean, consistent, and consumer friendly APIs.\nBuilder Mindset — emphasizes automation, reuse, and simplicity.\nSystems Thinking — understands how APIs integrate with distributed systems.\nCollaboration — works effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams.\nOwnership & Accountability — takes responsibility for design, delivery, and reliability.\n\nPreferences:\nExperience with OAuth providers and identity platforms.\nFamiliarity with AWS SAM or Serverless Framework (tooling experience).\nExposure to event driven architectures (EventBridge, SNS/SQS).\nExperience operating APIs in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services preferred).\nKnowledge of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.\nExperience designing reusable API frameworks or shared libraries.\n\nWhy This Role Is Different:\nThis position is not a Data Engineer role. It is focused entirely on Python API engineering on AWS, supported by Terraform based cloud infrastructure, and ownership of secure, scalable, and production ready API services.\nThe pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $34.67/hour - $54.18/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.\nTundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.","company":"Capgemini","rawCompany":"capgemini","city":"Fort Mill","state":"SC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-27T13:40:09.907Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Data Engineer (Python, AWS Glue, Airflow, Lambda)","description":"Fort Mill, SC, United States (On-site)\nContract (6 months 16 days)\nPublished 2 days ago\nMonitoring & Logging\nREST API development\nroot cause analysis\nproblem - solving and communication skills\nDevOps & CI/CD\nPython\nterraform\nproduction support\nAWS lambda\nThe Senior API Engineer (Python / AWS) is a critical member of the Data Modernization & Integration organization. This role is responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating high quality, cloud native REST APIs that power LPL’s core business platforms and integrations.\nThis engineer will focus primarily on Python-based API development on AWS, leveraging services such as API Gateway, Lambda, and related AWS components, with all infrastructure managed through Terraform. The role plays an important part in modernizing legacy integrations and defining engineering standards for reliable, secure, and scalable API services.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep hands-on Python API engineering expertise with strong cloud architecture skills, a passion for automation, and the ability to collaborate across platform, data, security, and application teams.\n\nResponsibilities:\nAPI Engineering & Application Development:\nDesign, develop, and maintain Python based REST APIs that support business critical workflows.\nBuild APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, following API first and REST best practices.\nImplement clean, testable, and well documented Python code suitable for enterprise production environments.\nOptimize API performance, reliability, scalability, and error handling.\nEnsure proper API versioning, contract stability, and backward compatibility.\n\nSecurity & Access Management:\nImplement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, and IAM based access.\nEnforce API security controls including request validation, throttling, rate limiting, and auditing.\nPartner with security teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise security and compliance standards.\n\nAutomation & Infrastructure Engineering:\nProvision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform.\nCreate and maintain reusable Terraform modules for:\nAPI Gateway\nLambda\nIAM roles and policies\nCloudWatch logging and monitoring\nEnsure environment consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD.\n\nCI/CD & Operational Excellence:\nDesign and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment of Python APIs.\nSupport automated testing, packaging, versioning, and release management.\nImplement observability through logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing.\nParticipate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support activities.\n\nCross Team Collaboration:\nCollaborate closely with application teams, platform engineering, cloud, and security teams.\nAlign API design and implementation with enterprise architectural standards.\nActively contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.\nPromote best practices and a culture of engineering excellence.\nStrategic Influence:\nInfluence API engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.\nContribute to architectural reviews and modernization efforts.\nHelp drive consistent, scalable, and maintainable cloud native API solutions.\n\nWhat Are We Looking For:\nWe are looking for strong collaborators who deliver reliable, secure, and high quality API solutions in fast paced, team oriented environments. Ideal candidates pursue technical excellence, act with integrity, and are motivated to build scalable platforms that enable business growth. We value continuous improvement, curiosity, and individuals who take ownership and pride in their work.\n\nRequirements:\n7+ years of experience in software engineering, API engineering, or cloud application development.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).\nDemonstrated hands-on experience with:\nPython for backend and API development\nREST API design and implementation\nAWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway\nTerraform for Infrastructure as Code\nExperience building and operating APIs in large scale, production environments.\nStrong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.\nExperience with CI/CD, Git based workflows, and automated testing.\nAbility to troubleshoot production issues and support on call rotations when required.\n\nCore Competencies:\nAPI Design Mindset — builds clean, consistent, and consumer friendly APIs.\nBuilder Mindset — emphasizes automation, reuse, and simplicity.\nSystems Thinking — understands how APIs integrate with distributed systems.\nCollaboration — works effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams.\nOwnership & Accountability — takes responsibility for design, delivery, and reliability.\n\nPreferences:\nExperience with OAuth providers and identity platforms.\nFamiliarity with AWS SAM or Serverless Framework (tooling experience).\nExposure to event driven architectures (EventBridge, SNS/SQS).\nExperience operating APIs in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services preferred).\nKnowledge of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.\nExperience designing reusable API frameworks or shared libraries.\n\nWhy This Role Is Different:\nThis position is not a Data Engineer role. It is focused entirely on Python API engineering on AWS, supported by Terraform based cloud infrastructure, and ownership of secure, scalable, and production ready API services.\nThe pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $34.67/hour - $54.18/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.\nTundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. 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