Python Senior Technical Lead - DevOps
United States
Job Description
Python Senior Technical Lead - DevOps
District of Columbia, District of Columbia

Job Summary

  • Minimum 5 years of professional Python development experience delivering secure, scalable, and production-quality backend applications or calculation services.
  • Strong proficiency in modern Python, object-oriented design, modular architecture, reusable libraries, type validation, dependency management, and coding standards such as PEP 8.
  • Hands-on experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI or an approved equivalent framework, including request validation, API versioning, authentication, structured error responses, and OpenAPI documentation.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including data modelling, queries, functions, indexing, transaction management, and performance optimization.
  • Proven ability to identify opportunities for engineering automation and productivity improvements using AI, Generative AI, intelligent agents, scripting, and developer tooling; experience delivering practical solutions that reduce manual effort, improve code quality, accelerate testing, and enhance team effectiveness.
  • Experience with Pydantic, PyTest, importlib, caching, configuration management, and development of reusable Python utilities and packages.
  • Experience translating complex formulas, business rules, dependency graphs, or scientific models into deterministic, traceable, and testable software components.
  • Experience designing automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests, with disciplined defect analysis and test evidence.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure services, App Service or approved container platforms, Azure DevOps, continuous integration and deployment pipelines, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and application support.
  • Strong understanding of secure software development, data protection, auditability, resilience, performance, and production support practices.
  • Working knowledge of building science, energy and water efficiency, materials, embodied carbon, cost calculations, or sustainability standards is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, enhance, and support modular Python services and REST APIs for the EDGE V4 Calculation Engine.
  • Translate validated building science formulas, rules, assumptions, and dependency flows into accurate, maintainable, and testable Python components.
  • Develop and integrate calculation capabilities for energy, water, materials, embodied carbon, baseline standards, scenario simulation, explainability, anomaly management, and cost-related functions as prioritized by the product backlog.
  • Build reusable calculation libraries, data models, validation rules, configuration services, and version-controlled datasets using Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQL, and PostgreSQL or approved equivalent technologies.
  • Integrate calculation services with the EDGE V4 application through well-defined API contracts, structured inputs and outputs, secure authentication, and reliable error handling.
  • Optimize calculation performance, database queries, caching, asynchronous processing, and service scalability for global usage and high-volume calculation scenarios.
  • Create and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests using PyTest or approved equivalent frameworks; support system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
  • Maintain technical documentation, API specifications, calculation traceability, data dictionaries, setup guides, deployment notes, and support runbooks.
  • Participate in solution design, code reviews, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, release planning, deployment, defect resolution, and post-deployment support.

Implement production-grade logging, monitoring, auditability, exception handling, retries, configuration management, and operational support procedures

Skill Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of professional Python development experience delivering secure, scalable, and production-quality backend applications or calculation services.
  • Strong proficiency in modern Python, object-oriented design, modular architecture, reusable libraries, type validation, dependency management, and coding standards such as PEP 8.
  • Hands-on experience developing REST APIs using FastAPI or an approved equivalent framework, including request validation, API versioning, authentication, structured error responses, and OpenAPI documentation.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including data modelling, queries, functions, indexing, transaction management, and performance optimization.
  • Proven ability to identify opportunities for engineering automation and productivity improvements using AI, Generative AI, intelligent agents, scripting, and developer tooling; experience delivering practical solutions that reduce manual effort, improve code quality, accelerate testing, and enhance team effectiveness.
  • Experience with Pydantic, PyTest, importlib, caching, configuration management, and development of reusable Python utilities and packages.
  • Experience translating complex formulas, business rules, dependency graphs, or scientific models into deterministic, traceable, and testable software components.
  • Experience designing automated unit, integration, regression, and API tests, with disciplined defect analysis and test evidence.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure services, App Service or approved container platforms, Azure DevOps, continuous integration and deployment pipelines, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and application support.
  • Strong understanding of secure software development, data protection, auditability, resilience, performance, and production support practices.
  • Working knowledge of building science, energy and water efficiency, materials, embodied carbon, cost calculations, or sustainability standards is preferred.

Other Requirements

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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion. 

 

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.