Job Description

Job Title: Talend Developer

Work Location: Remote

Job Overview:

As a Talend Developer, you will design and develop ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Jobs that comply with industry standards and best practices, ensuring that the solutions are maintainable, modular, and reusable. Proficiency in tools such as Talend or Pentaho Data Integration is essential. In this role, you will analyze and assess complex data models and metadata repositories to structure processes and enhance data management and accessibility. You will manage multiple projects, delegating tasks to junior analysts to ensure timely project completion while also training and mentoring them to build their expertise in the ETL process. Your responsibilities will include preparing mapping documents for data extraction, transformation, and loading, ensuring compatibility with all specified tables and requirements.

Role of Talend Developer:

• Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business analysts and data stakeholders to understand data integration needs, analyzing source and target data structure to design effective ETL processes.
• Talend Development: Design, develop, and implement ETL solutions utilizing Talend Studio, creating and optimizing jobs for data extraction, transformation, and loading.
• Data Modeling: Develop data models and mappings to ensure accurate data transformations, implementing best practices for data modeling and schema design.
• Data Quality Management: Introduce data quality checks and validation rules within Talend jobs, working closely with data quality analysts to maintain high data quality standards.
• Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business analysts and data stakeholders to understand data integration needs, analyzing source and target data structures to design effective ETL processes.
• Integration: Integrate Talend jobs with various data sources and target systems to ensure a seamless data flow between databases, data warehouses, and other platforms.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize Talend jobs for both performance and efficiency, monitoring and improving the scalability of ETL processes.
• Error Handling and Logging: Implement robust error handling mechanisms in Talend jobs, establishing logging and monitoring systems for proactive issue identification.
• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for Talend ETL processes, detailing data integration workflows, dependencies, and job schedules.
• Collaboration: Work in collaboration with data architects, database administrators, and other IT teams, participating in cross-functional teams for system integrations and projects.
• Version Control: Utilize version control systems to manage Talend job versions and changes, ensuring consistency and traceability in development activities.
   

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a Talend Developer with a strong focus on ETL processes.    
• In-depth knowledge of Talend Studio and its components.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of relational databases.
• Experience with data modeling and schema design.
• Familiarity with data quality management practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms is a plus.
   

Requirements:

• Experience in developing with the Talend product suite.
• Proficiency in Java 8+, SQL, NoSQL, JSON, XML, XPath, and regular expressions.
• Experience with REST API development and familiarity with design patterns and the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Knowledge in ETL, ESB, MDM, data quality, and data profiling.
• Experience designing logical and physical data models for both relational and hierarchical data structures.
• Familiarity with ActiveMQ or other messaging frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understanding of automated unit testing and integration testing.
• Familiarity with search frameworks.
• Knowledge of Apache Camel and Apache Spark is an added advantage.