Senior Developer (Python)

Content Critical Solutions specializes in creating seamless, end-to-end solutions securely and accurately. The company prides itself on delivering personalized, high-impact communications that help its customers enhance their business performance and improve their revenue stream. Each day, CCS creates and distributes millions of statements, confirmations, invoices, checks, and other important documents on behalf of its customers. Key to its success is an innovative technology platform and an array of print output solutions, including offset, digital, and wide format.

Content Critical Solutions has an opportunity in our Development area for a Senior Developer. Experienced hands-on Python developer with strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a dynamic environment. We are looking for a Python developer who will be involved with processing/transforming client data to deliver highly personalized transactional mail output to meet the client's requirements. 

Senior Developer

• Responsible for the design, development, testing and implementation      of receiving and transforming various data files (XML, JSON, pipe      delimited, etc.), loading to MS SQL Server and processing the data to      generate composed documents and mail generation workflow.
• Have worked on Print Streams formats including Postscript, Adobe      PDF, and AFP.
• Familiarity with flat files, relational databases, non-relational      databases, XML, JSON, etc.
• Manage the completion or resolution of development issues or enhancement requests.
• Provide feedback to those performing business requirements gathering functions on required information. 
• Help gather technical requirements, prepare and publish estimates for work requests. 
• Enforce company best practices and ensure appropriate designs are followed during the development process. 
• Learn and understand the needs of the business stakeholders and or customers. 
• Leverage automation capabilities within systems.
• Ensure that proper backup and knowledge transfers are performed for all work. 
• Ensure that complete and proper documentation is available for all solutions.
• Ensure that solutions are prepared for optimal efficiency.
• Provide status reports on current/planned tasks and projects.

• Four-year degree in computer science or equivalent demonstrated      experience.
• Three to five years of demonstrated experience with Python
• Python, database and query experience. 
• Must have effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Five years industry experience in application development.
• Ability to create documented technical designs based on business      requirements.
• Ability to turn technical designs into quality, automated software      solutions.
• Understanding and experience with database management systems, MS      SQL
• Ability to work independently and be accountable for work quality      and deliverables.
• Must be able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks with minimum      supervision and deliver tangible results within a reasonable schedule.

Skills Sets:

• Experience with Python.
• Experience with print streams (Postscript, PDF, PCL, AFP) and      Crawford Technology products a plus. 
• Windows and Linux environments. 
• Python, Perl, shell scripting. 
• Standard Microsoft Windows products (Word, Excel, Access, etc.).