Senior Technical Lead – Python/AWS, Private Markets

Senior Technical Lead – Python/AWS, Private Markets Location: Remote, with periodic travel to Greater Philadelphia, PA Type: Contract | 9+ months+ Compensation: $80-$95/H, depending on employment type, experience, and qualifications We are seeking a Senior Technical Lead to help design and build technology supporting private-markets investment, valuation, and fund-operations workflows. This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who can contribute production-quality code while partnering with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders. You will work on cloud-based applications, financial-data integrations, and workflow capabilities that support private assets and alternative-investment products. The ideal candidate combines strong Python and AWS engineering experience with practical exposure to private equity, private markets, alternative investments, fund accounting, NAV, or valuation-related workflows. What You’ll Do Design, build, and enhance cloud-based applications and services using Python and AWS Develop data integrations and workflows supporting financial, investment, and operational data Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex investment-process requirements into scalable technical solutions Contribute hands-on to production code, solution design, testing, implementation, and support Help improve controls, traceability, research workflows, reconciliation, and auditability for valuation-related processes Work with data received from fund administrators and other external sources Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship within a collaborative engineering team Explore practical applications of automation, AI, and unstructured data in financial workflows Must-have Strong, hands-on Python engineering experience Real AWS delivery experience—not cloud exposure only Private equity, private markets, alternative investments, asset management, fund administration, or investment-technology experience Ability to design integrations, data workflows, APIs, or platforms using complex financial/investment data Senior technical ownership and clear communication with business stakeholders Able to work remotely with periodic travel to Greater Philadelphia Preferred—not a knockout Direct private-asset valuation or fair-value workflow experience NAV oversight, fund accounting, valuation controls, reconciliation, or audit-trail experience Fund-administrator/custodian data integrations Canoe, MSCI, eFront, Allvue, iCapital, or similar private-markets platforms AI, unstructured-data, or workflow-automation experience Interview Process One virtual interview. The selected candidate must complete a client-run background check, drug test, and fingerprinting process before starting. The anticipated onboarding timeline is approximately two weeks after offer acceptance.