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Hybrid - 2201 Eglinton Ave East Ecosystem 3, Scarborough – 3 days/week (Thursday is set, the other 2 are flexible)

Subject to change: 3–4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: approx. 10 months – Jan to Oct 31, 2026

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Involved in end-to-end ETL/ELT architectures using Talend (Studio, TAC, Data Integration, Real-Time Big Data, Data Quality).

Select integration patterns (batch, micro-batch, streaming) aligned to business SLAs and system constraints.

Establish standards for metadata management, lineage, error handling, and reusability.

• Build robust Talend jobs, components, mappings, and data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, cleansing, and delivery.
• Develop custom Talend components and routines using Java 8/11 for advanced transformations and framework extensions.
• Work with SQL for validation, transformation logic, and performance tuning.

• Implement data quality rules, profiling, exception handling, and reconciliation frameworks.
• Design automated validation suites and sampling strategies for high-stakes data consumption.

• Tune jobs and SQL for scale (partitioning, parallelization, pushdown optimization, caching).
• Optimize schedules, dependencies, and resource utilization within TAC.
• Establish SLIs/SLOs and monitor pipeline health via logs, metrics, and alerts.

• Integrate Talend with Git and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps) for versioning, build, test, and deployment automation.
• Promote repeatable deployments across dev/test/prod with environment configs and secrets management.

• Lead conversion of legacy ETL platforms to Talend, including mapping old jobs, rationalizing logic, and decommissioning.
• Support cloud integration initiatives and real-time processing adoption.

• Partner with data architects, DBAs, application teams, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor developers, review code/designs, and contribute to best practices and documentation.

Talend: Studio, TAC, DI, Real-Time Big Data Platform, Data Quality

Databases: SQL Server, DB2

Languages: Java 8/11, SQL

Streaming/Integration: REST, Kafka; monitoring via Splunk

DevOps: Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps (pipelines, artifacts), environment configs

Cloud (preferred): Azure/GCP services for storage, compute, integration

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a key migration project and enhance their ETL development skills for a top 5 Canadian Bank.

• 10+ years of relevant working experience in ETL development, architecture, and data integration
• 8+ years of hands-on Talend development experience: Talend Studio, Talend Administration Center (TAC), Talend Data Integration, Talend Real-Time Big Data Platform and Talend Data Quality
• 5+ years of Java (Java 8/11) for Talend customizations and job-level logic
• Strong expertise across ETL concepts, data warehousing, and integration patterns
• Hands on experience building Talend ETL/ELT jobs, components, mapping and data pipelines
• Advanced SQL for data validation transformation and performance tuning (Oracle, SQL, Server, DB2, Teradata)

• Proven ETL Migration experience, including conversion of legacy ETL platforms into Talend
• API and streaming data integration experience, including REST APIs, Kafka, Splunk
• CI/CD integration for Talend jobs (GIT, Jenkins, Azure, DevOps, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms and cloud integration
• Big data and real time processing
• Financial industry experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.

Ideal candidate will have a good fit with the team above the technical skillset sought, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, communication; technical: strong experience with Talend; need to be able to hit the ground running