Python Backend Developer (Azure Cloud/API Integration)

Project description

The team needs a backend developer with strong experience in Azure cloud development and API integrations to help industrialize a KPI computation solution.

The candidate will have to build scalable, cloud-based components that ingest, store, and process data extracted from SharePoint Online via API, preparing it for KPI computation and reporting.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with REST APIs, data ingestion pipelines, cloud storage, and data processing services, and will contribute to shaping the final solution architecture together with the team.

Responsibilities

The candidate will have to build scalable, cloud-based components that ingest, store, and process data extracted from SharePoint Online via API, preparing it for KPI computation and reporting.

Skills

Must have

5+ years of hands-on Python development and Azure Cloud Development.

Strong experience developing backend components leveraging Azure cloud services, using Python and/or C#.

Experience developing containerized applications.

Solid experience integrating and consuming REST APIs (authentication, pagination, throttling, error-handling).

Required Azure Skills

Azure Data Factory.

Azure Storage Account: Queue Storage, Table Storage, Data Lake Storage Gen2.

Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Apps and/or Azure Kubernetes Service.

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights.

Nice to have

Experience with event-driven architectures.

Azure Service Bus.

Azure Event Grid.

Azure Key Vault.

Microsoft Entra ID.

Familiarity with data engineering concepts (data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines).

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).

Snowflake (data loading, schema design, merge operations) to support downstream integration and reporting activities.

Ability to write technical specifications and implementation documentation.

Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-900, AZ-204, DP-900, DP-100).

Exposure to document/content management systems.

Familiarity with SharePoint Online or ServiceNow.

Hands-on experience with SharePoint Online API or Microsoft Graph API.

Other

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate