Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Pre-trade (Gas & Power Industry)

About the Position

Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Pre-trade (Gas & Power Industry)

Talan is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - AWS / Python to support a key client in the energy trading industry. The role focuses on designing, developing, deploying, and supporting secure, scalable cloud applications and data services supporting pre-trade, market data, pricing, and analytics. AWS is the primary cloud platform and Python the main development language.

Location: Houston (Hybrid – at least 3 days onsite/week)

Visa Sponsorship: We offer sponsorship under specific treaty-based U.S. work visas, including TN and E-2 (for eligible Canadian, Mexican, and French citizens). We do not support or transfer other visa types (e.g., H-1B).

Responsibilities

• Build and support cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions on AWS.
• Develop backend services and automation in Python.
• Design services handling market data, pricing, analytics, and pre-trade workflows.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Apply cloud security and secure software-development best practices.
• Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and AWS costs.
• Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput, reliable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including services such as AWS S3, Glue, Redshift, Azure Data Factory, and BigQuery.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, Git, production support, observability, and incident management, including AWS Glue environments.
• Experience designing and developing APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms, including ECS and EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation; AWS certification preferred.
• Bachelor degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or Quantitative finance.

Nice to Have

• Experience in energy trading, commodities, market data, pricing, or financial markets.
• Microsoft Azure experience (Alternatively AWS)
• Athena, or Redshift.
• C#/.NET or React or Angular.
• Azure certifications.

We Offer

• 💵 Competitive salary between USD $130,000 - $170,000
• 💸 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 🌴 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 📴 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• ❤️‍🩹 Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• 🦺 Voluntary STD and LTD
• 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits

About the Company

Talan is an international group that supports its clients in their end-to-end Data & AI transformation by combining management consulting with technological expertise.

With over 6,000 employees across five continents, we accelerate our clients' transformations through long-term partnerships, creating measurable and sustainable impact.

Our value proposition is built on a structured innovation ecosystem: 2,500 Data & AI experts, proprietary solutions built on advanced models, and an applied research, experimental development, and innovation laboratory.

In Americas, our multidisciplinary teams bring over 30 years of experience helping business leaders across key industries achieve measurable performance and strong ROI, designing, building, and scaling solutions that enable companies to grow more efficiently.