Job Description

Python Data Engineer - Energy & Commodity Trading 📍 Houston, TX | Onsite, Direct Hire

An Energy and Commodity Trading company in Houston, TX is hiring a Python Data Engineer for a full-time, direct hire opportunity. This company is involved in the physical trading, logistics, and distribution of energy and related products, including crude oil, oil products, natural gas, power, and renewable energy sources.

This role requires working onsite 5 days a week.

Interview Process

1. Take-home coding test

2. 30-minute virtual call

3. 1-hour business case interview

4. On-site: 30-minute interview with a trader

5. 30-minute interview with the hiring manager

Top Skills

• Python

• SQL

• Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Agile/Scrum methodology

Key Responsibilities

• Build modular, reusable components to integrate external data sources with internal tools and databases

• Partner with business stakeholders to define data ingestion and access needs

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions

• Maintain a shared Python codebase following established design principles

• Enhance and standardize the internal Python ETL framework and tooling

• Collaborate with a global team to support evolving data demands

• Contribute to internal Python communities and business development initiatives

Basic Requirements

• 6+ years of professional Python development experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field

• Strong track record in data engineering and building data pipelines

• Hands-on experience with web scraping libraries (Requests, Beautiful Soup, Selenium)

• Proficiency with Oracle / PL SQL, including stored procedures

• Familiarity with object-oriented programming, SOA, and design patterns

• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments

• Knowledge of version control, code reviews, and issue tracking

• Skilled with Pandas and NumPy

Nice to Have

• Background in the Energy or Commodities Trading industry

• Familiarity with Docker or Kubernetes

• Experience in Banking or FinTech environments
  

Beacon Hill is an equal opportunity employer and individuals with disabilities and/or protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting .

Benefits Information:

Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.

We look forward to working with you.

Beacon Hill. Employing the Future™

Job Tags

Full time, Remote job,

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