Led the back-end development of a Contract Wording Proof-of-Concept (PoC), focused on migrating a Power Apps solution to one based on a modern tech stack using Python Quart back-end and Next.js front-end. - Designed, documented, and deployed APIs to Azure Functions for performing CRUD operations on Azure Cosmos DB and corresponding operations on Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage (ADLS) - Orchestrated the upload of contract PDFs, upserting items into Azure Cosmos DB, and triggering Azure ML pipeline for ingesting the contracts - Engineered deletion processes for contract PDFs and associated text files, soft-deleting documents from Azure Cosmos DB container, deleting documents from gold containers in Azure Cosmos DB, and removing corresponding entries in Azure AI Search index - Established retrieval methods for contract metadata from Azure Cosmos DB container containing contract metadata - Derived team names from the ADLS folder structure - Centralized and secured API access via Azure API Management - Collaborated cross-functionally with UK-based engineers in an Agile environment via daily stand-ups and pair programming