Data Engineer - Senior
- Hiring from
- Canada
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 23, 2026
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Job Description
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
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