Area(s) of Responsibility Senior Application Developer - Python Developer Grade

Reports To: Senior Technical Lead (Python)

Program: FP&A; Reporting Automation & AI Forecasting

Experience: 4-6 years

Location: [To be filled]

Engagement: Full-time

Role Expectations

- Build production-grade Python modules for Excel ingestion, template parsing, data transformation, validation, and consolidation of Data sets.
- Develop backend services, APIs, and Azure Function-based pipelines to move data from Excel uploads (SharePoint/ADLS) into Database for downstream reporting.
- Implement business rules, exception reporting logic, version control, and audit trails as per the technical design authored by the Technical Lead.
- Write clean, testable, well-documented code with high unit test coverage; participate actively in peer code reviews.
- Collaborate with the Data Scientist to operationalize ML models - building inference APIs, batch scoring jobs, and result-persistence layers.
- Troubleshoot production issues, contribute to hypercare during go-live, and continuously improve pipeline resilience and performance.

Must-Have Skills

- Python (Strong): 4 years hands-on with Python 3.10 , pandas, NumPy,



and standard library; comfortable with OOP and modular design.
- Excel Handling: Solid experience with openpyxl, pandas, xlrd/xlwings, and handling complex Excel structures (merged cells, formulas, pivot tables, named ranges).
- APIs: Building Streamlit Applications and experience in consuming REST APIs using FastAPI or Flask.
- Version Control & DevOps: Git, branching strategies, pull requests, participation in CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
- Testing: pytest, unit testing, and integration test practices.
- Agile: Comfortable working in Scrum sprints, story estimation, JIRA/Azure Boards usage.

Preferred / Positive-to-Have Skills

- Familiarity with Finance/FP&A; concepts (P&L;, forecasting, budgets) and Excel-heavy finance workflows.
- Exposure to Streamlit / Plotly Dash for internal utility dashboards or admin UIs.
- Basic understanding of ML model integration - calling scikit-learn models from Python services.

Locations

- Country/Region: IN
- Requisition ID: 39436
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- Location: INDIA - PUNE - BIRLASOFT OFFICE - HINJAWADI

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