Data Engineer - Senior

Job summary

Design, develop, deploy, administer, and support Talend-based integrations across databases, APIs, files, cloud platforms, analytics, and enterprise applications. Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, improve reliability and performance, support platform releases, and collaborate with technical and business teams.

Job details

Client: Government of Alberta (GoA) – Technology & Innovation Project: Data Management Platform Integration Services Location: Edmonton, Alberta – 100% Remote within Canada, with onsite meetings in Edmonton as required Work Location: 9942 – 108 ST, Edmonton, AB T5K 2J5 Positions: 1 Contract Hours: 7.25 hrs/day, 36.25 hrs/week Working Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta time Respond By: September 29, 2026 Contract: 841 hours; maximum extension 6 months Background Check: Standard criminal record check required Interview: Expected approximately 2 weeks after posting closes Role Summary The Talend Integration Platform Analyst will provide hands-on development, administration, production support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of the GoA Data Management Platform's enterprise integration environment. The resource will design and maintain Talend-based ETL/ELT integrations supporting databases, APIs, files, cloud platforms, analytics, reporting, and enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, test, deploy, and support Talend Studio/Data Integration/Data Fabric solutions. Develop ETL/ELT jobs, transformations, APIs, services, orchestration workflows, and reusable components. Translate business/data requirements into technical designs, mappings, transformations, and reconciliation processes. Build scalable batch and near-real-time integrations across databases, files, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications. Administer and support Talend Management Console (TMC)/Talend Administration Center (TAC). Deploy, schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot Talend jobs and platform components. Install, configure, and support Talend Remote Engines, Job Servers, and runtime infrastructure. Investigate production incidents, integration failures, performance issues, and data load problems; perform root-cause analysis. Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, error handling, and automated recovery. Support releases, upgrades, patching, environment maintenance, and deployment validation. Work with infrastructure teams, vendors, data engineers, architects, application teams, and business stakeholders. Apply AI and automation tools for code generation, data analysis, testing, monitoring, optimization, and documentation. Requirements Mandatory Qualifications Post-secondary degree, diploma, or certificate in Computer Science or a related field. 3+ years designing, developing, testing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Talend Studio. 5+ years administering/supporting TMC or TAC, including deployment, scheduling, environment management, monitoring, and release promotion. 3+ years installing/configuring/supporting Talend Remote Engines, Job Servers, and runtime infrastructure. 2+ years providing production support for enterprise integration solutions. 4+ years working within a mature SDLC, including Git, code reviews, CI/CD, testing, release and change management. 1+ year using AI for code generation, data analysis, automation, and data-engineering productivity. Nice-to-Have Qualifications 6+ years business requirements analysis involving data manipulation, transformation, cleansing, and wrangling. 6+ years strong Microsoft SQL Server experience, including database design, optimization, and administration. 2+ years building scalable ETL pipelines, data-quality processes, and cloud integrations using Talend. 3+ years designing/integrating RESTful APIs. 3+ years with message-queue technologies such as ActiveMQ and Azure Service Bus. 1+ year working with ServiceNow/Azure-based Data Management Platform integrations

What you’ll do

Design, develop, deploy, administer, and support Talend-based integrations across databases, APIs, files, cloud platforms, analytics, and enterprise applications. Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, improve reliability and performance, support platform releases, and collaborate with technical and business teams.

Requirements

Requires a post-secondary qualification in computer science or a related field, along with substantial experience developing Talend integrations, administering TMC or TAC, supporting runtime infrastructure, and providing production support. Candidates must also have mature SDLC experience and at least one year using AI for code generation, data analysis, automation, or data-engineering productivity.

Listed skills

• CI/CD · Preferred
• Root Cause Analysis · Preferred
• Git · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Talend Studio
• ETL/ELT Development
• Talend Management Console
• Talend Administration Center
• Talend Remote Engines
• Job Servers
• Production Support
• SQL Server
• RESTful APIs
• Message Queues
• Git
• CI/CD
• Data Quality
• Cloud Integrations
• AI and Automation
• Root-Cause Analysis

Job areas

• Technology
• Data & Analytics
• Software
• Government & Public Sector