Data Engineer - Senior - GOAPRDJP000001030

Client: Government of Alberta – GOAPRDJP000001030
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Data Engineer to support the Government of Alberta’s Data Management Platform. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Talend, SQL, enterprise data integration, ETL/ELT, Talend Management Console/Administration Centre, Talend runtime infrastructure, production support, SDLC, CI/CD, APIs, messaging technologies, and AI-assisted data engineering workflows.
The role will focus on designing, developing, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintaining, and enhancing Talend-based integrations that support critical business applications, data exchanges, analytics, and reporting solutions.
Role Snapshot
Job Title: GOAPRDJP000001030 – Data Engineer - Senior
Client: Government of Alberta
Work Location: 9942 - 108 ST, Edmonton, Alberta, CAN, T5K 2J5
Work Arrangement: Remote
Estimated Start Date: December 10, 2026
Estimated End Date: March 31, 2027
Business Days: 117
Estimated Hours per Day: 7.25
Maximum Extension Term: 6 Months
On-site Meetings: Resource must be available for on-site meetings as required
Must Have
Demonstrated experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Talend Studio. Experience should include developing ETL/ELT jobs, data transformations, orchestration workflows, error handling, and deployment-ready integration components supporting critical business processes – 3 years.
Experience administering and supporting Talend Management Console (TMC) or Talend Administration Centre (TAC), including job deployment, scheduling, environment management, monitoring, execution tracking, release promotion, and operational support across development, test, and production environments – 5 years.
Experience installing, configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting Talend Remote Engines, Job Servers, and Talend runtime infrastructure. Responsibilities should include environment maintenance, log analysis, performance tuning, connectivity troubleshooting, security configuration, and ensuring platform reliability and availability – 3 years.
Experience providing production support for enterprise integration solutions, including incident management, root cause analysis, monitoring, performance optimization, configuration management, deployment validation, and resolution of integration failures in complex enterprise environments – 2 years.
Experience working within a mature Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing Git-based source control, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, testing, release management, documentation, and change management processes. Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support while adhering to organizational standards and governance – 4 years.
Use of AI: Experienced in using AI for code generation, data analysis, automation, and enhancing productivity in data engineering workflows – 1 year.
Nice to Have
Direct, hands-on experience performing business requirement analysis related to data manipulation/transformation, cleansing, and wrangling – 6 years.
Experience and strong technical knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including database design, optimization, and administration in enterprise environments – 6 years.
Experience building scalable ETL pipelines, data quality enforcement, and cloud integration using TALEND technologies – 2 years.
Skilled in building secure, scalable RESTful APIs for data exchange, with robust authentication, error handling, and support for real-time automation – 3 years.
Experience in Message Queueing Technologies, implementing message queuing using tools like ActiveMQ and Service Bus for scalable, asynchronous communication across distributed systems – 3 years.
Experience working with ServiceNow – Azure-based Data Management Platform Integrations – 1 year.
Description
Scope
The Talend Integration Platform Analyst provides development, operational support, and continuous improvement services for the Data Management Platform's enterprise integration environment. The role is responsible for designing, developing, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintaining, and enhancing Talend-based integrations that support critical business applications, data exchanges, analytics, and reporting solutions.
The analyst works closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, solution architects, platform administrators, and application teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable integration services. The position supports ongoing platform operations while contributing new integration development and modernization initiatives across the Government of Alberta Data Management Platform.
This is a hands-on technical role for someone who combines strong Talend and SQL development skills with a disciplined, service-oriented approach to platform operations including job scheduling, monitoring, error handling, and incident resolution; while collaborating with data engineers, platform administrators, ministry stakeholders, and vendor support partners.
Duties And Responsibilities
Demonstrated hands-on experience developing data integration solutions with Talend (Data Integration / Data Fabric / Talend Studio).
Design, develop, test, and deploy Talend integration jobs, services, APIs, and reusable components.
Translate business and data requirements into technical designs, data mappings, transformation logic, and reconciliation processes.
Develop ETL/ELT solutions to integrate data across databases, files, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications.
Build reusable, parameterized, and environment-aware integrations for development, test, and production environments.
Implement scalable batch and near real-time integration solutions.
Participate in solution design, estimation, and release planning activities.
Deploy, schedule, orchestrate, and monitor Talend jobs, services, and platform components.
Investigate and resolve integration issues, production incidents, data load failures, and performance bottlenecks.
Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to prevent recurring issues.
Monitor platform health, job execution, throughput, and failures and implement and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery processes.
Support production releases, platform upgrades, patching, and environment maintenance.
Work with infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to resolve platform and integration issues.
Utilize AI and automation tools to streamline data engineering workflows, including pipeline development, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
Leverage AI-assisted tools for code generation, optimization, and review to improve development efficiency and code quality.
Work Arrangement
This position is primarily Remote.
The resource will primarily work remotely but must be available for on-site meetings as required. These meetings may involve strategic, analytical, or technical discussions and may include engagement with team members, senior managers, directors, executive directors, or business clients.
Candidate Requirements
Candidates should clearly demonstrate their experience against the mandatory and desirable qualifications listed above. Resumes should provide sufficient detail regarding the candidate's experience with:
Talend Studio / Talend Data Integration / Talend Data Fabric
Talend Management Console (TMC) / Talend Administration Centre (TAC)
Talend Remote Engines and Job Servers
ETL/ELT development
Data transformation and integration
Microsoft SQL Server
Enterprise production support
SDLC and Git-based source control
CI/CD pipelines
RESTful APIs
Message Queueing Technologies
Cloud and enterprise application integration
AI-assisted data engineering and automation
How To Apply
If you are interested in this opportunity and your profile matches the requirements, please send the following mandatory documents to hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com by Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 4:00 PM EST.
Without the mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.
Updated Resume in Word format – Mandatory
Skills Matrix and References – Mandatory
Expected Hourly Rate – Mandatory
Visa Status – Mandatory
LinkedIn ID – Mandatory
Without the mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.
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Important Note
The resource will primarily work Remotely.
The resource must be available for on-site meetings as required.
Meetings may involve strategic, analytical, or technical discussions with team members, senior managers, directors, executive directors, or business clients.
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