I8IS INC. - Data Engineer - Senior 030

Data Engineer is needed in Edmonton, Canada.

Client: I8IS INC.

Location: Edmonton (Kaskitayo), AB, ca

Contract: Freelance

Job Description

Project Name: Data Management Platform Integration Services

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Other duties as needed.

Additional Information

Duration: 2026-10-12 to 2027-03-31 (6 Months possible extension)

Location: Edmonton, AB (Remote) (Travel Required)

Work Location: 9942 - 108 ST, Edmonton, Alberta, CAN, T5K 2J5