Python Automation Engineer

Salary: £49,000 - 89,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Python development, particularly scripting and automation
• Strong REST API development/integration, including authentication, sessions, retries and exception handling
• ETL / data pipeline development experience
• Experience automating workflows, triggering jobs, monitoring status and handling outputs programmatically
• Experience working in regulated environments
• Data masking / PII experience
• Informatica IDMC/IICS familiarity
• Git / CI/CD experience

Responsibilities:

• Build automation for a data masking solution within a financial services environment
• Write Python code and integrate with REST APIs to automate masking workflows
• Build scripts and services that trigger masking jobs, monitor their progress, handle errors and exceptions, and process the resulting outputs

Technologies:

• API
• CI/CD
• ETL
• Git
• Informatica
• Python
• REST

More:

We are offering a contract Python Automation Engineer role inside IR35, based in London and Birmingham on a hybrid setup with 3 days onsite. The contract runs until late December with a strong possibility of extension, and the start date is ASAP. This is a hands-on Python development and API integration role focused on automating masking workflows in a financial services environment, rather than a traditional data engineering or platform configuration position.

last updated 34 week of 2026