Position Description:
Do you want to take your career to the next level?
Are you ready for the responsibility of working with high-profile clients?
CGI is looking for a talented, driven, and experienced Python Developer with a passion for solving business problems to join our team.
At CGI, you will solve challenging business and technical problems as a full-time consultant serving local, enterprise clients.
You’ll be part of a team of smart, dedicated people like yourself and make an impact with both internal and client stakeholders.
You also can work on cutting-edge technologies.
Take your talents to a world class consulting firm that inspires personal and professional growth and values your ideas.
This position requires someone who is local to St. Louis, MO and willing to work on-site.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Develop and integrate APIs to support automation and orchestration
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), where applicable
• Monitor, optimize, and scale workflows for performance, reliability, and resilience
• Contribute to application design ensuring high availability and maintainability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Data Engineering, Product Owners) in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Prepare technical documentation and maintain workflows in JIRA and Confluence
• Conduct code reviews and mentor team members to ensure best practices
• Deliver projects on-time, within scope, and on budget, resolving risks and dependencies proactively
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 7+ years professional software experience; 4+ years with **Python 3.x** in production
• Deep with **FastAPI/Pydantic**, async patterns, and building secure REST services
• Strong SQL and data modeling; hands-on with **BigQuery** (partitioning, clustering, Storage Write API or load jobs, query tuning, cost controls)
• Production experience on **GCP**: **Cloud Functions**, **Pub/Sub**, **Cloud Storage**, **IAM/Secret Manager**, **Cloud Build/CI** or alternative stacks on AWS or Azure
• Proven track record designing **high-load** systems (throughput, spikes, backpressure, idempotency)
• Excellent ownership and communication; comfortable driving designs from RFC to runbooks
Desired Qualifications
• File parsing at scale (CSV/Excel/XML), schema evolution/versioning
• Data quality frameworks (assertions, expectations), dbt/Dataform familiarity
• Event-driven or streaming backgrounds; Beam/Dataflow experience a plus
• Concurrency/perf profiling in Python (asyncio, multiprocessing)
• IaC (Terraform), SRE practices
• Security practices: authN/Z, service accounts, secrets, least privilege
Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role.
The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications.
To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role.
Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $88,.00 - $,.00.
CGI’s benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the (k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well-being programs
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