Python Automation Engineer

Python Automation Engineer | Contract | Inside IR35 | London & Birmingham Hybrid | 3 Days Onsite The Role We're looking for a hands-on Python Automation Engineer to build automation for a data masking solution within a financial services environment.The focus is on writing Python code and integrating with REST APIs to automate masking workflows. You'll build scripts and services that trigger masking jobs, monitor their progress, handle errors and exceptions, and process the resulting outputs.This is primarily a Python development and API integration role, rather than a traditional Data Engineering or platform configuration position. Contract Details Location: London & Birmingham - Hybrid, 3 days onsiteContract: Until late December - Strong possibility of extensionIR35: Inside IR35Start: ASAP Must Have Strong hands-on Python development, particularly scripting and automationStrong REST API development/integration, including authentication, sessions, retries and exception handlingETL / data pipeline development experienceExperience automating workflows, triggering jobs, monitoring status and handling outputs programmaticallyExperience working in regulated environments Nice to Have Data masking / PII experienceInformatica IDMC/IICS familiarityGit / CI/CD experience Python Automation Engineer | Contract | Inside IR35 | London & Birmingham Hybrid | 3 Days Onsite Oscar Associates (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. To understand more about what we do with your data please review our privacy policy in the privacy section of the Oscar website.