Talend Consultant

We are looking for experienced Talend Consultants to a Managed Services delivery team. You will work across a variety of cloud environments, your role is to turn business ideas into full data architectures on either existing or new enterprise developments. You will have a deep technical knowledge of modern data architecture, Talend Data Platform, and possesses a desire and passion for supporting other members of the team. For Senior roles experience of ESB and MDM would also be advantageous.

Some of the activities that you will engage in include:

• Working within the delivery team, design and build solutions using the Talend product set
• Develop and enforce data integration processes, templates, design patterns, frameworks, best practices and technical standards around Talend
• Use hands-on technology experience to conduct proofs of concept and prototypes to prove out new technology and innovative ideas in search for competitive advantages
• Design and implement data ingestion techniques for real time and batch processes for a variety of sources into a variety of systems using Talend
• Provide knowledge of data, master data and metadata related standards, processes and technology
• Ensure scalability and high availability, fault tolerance, and elasticity within the data systems we deploy
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to junior team members where required
• Design and develop ELT and ETL solutions focused on moving data from highly diverse data landscape into a centralised data lake; also architect, design solutions to acquire semi/unstructured data sources, such as sensors, machine logs, click streams
• Be involved in activities centred on obtaining data and loading into an Enterprise Data Lake
• Serve as an expert in efficient Talend ETL, data quality, and data consolidation
• Work with common version-control systems such as GIT or VSTS
• Perform Talend code reviews to make sure they follow the established standards and best practices
• Stay current with vendor/product roadmaps and make recommendations for adoption
• Maintain a customer-focused attitude.

Technical Skills:

• 3+ years experience in an IT Consulting role
• Use of the Talend product suite
• Data governance, data quality, profiling, ESB, MDM, data modelling
• Working with cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP; Snowflake experience would be beneficial
• Building data solutions involving data architecture, data integration, business intelligence and data analytics
• Worked on Big Data projects
• Experience with RDBMS platforms, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, and in-memory columnar storage, such as HANA
• Strong SQL skills
• Java/J2EE
• Visualisation tools
• Understanding of statistical and predictive modelling concepts

Process Skills:

• Working in an agile methodology environment
• Administration and ensuring that adequate security procedures are developed
• Handling large sets of data and be able to confidently process them into required formats
• Provide technical input and effective data analysis to projects
• Assessing and defining Data Integration strategy
• Ability to conduct workshops / training programs / support with all questions on Talend to clients / end users
• Experience in consulting or working with large enterprise clients
• Expertise in communicating requirements and data needs to technical teammates

Certification:

• Talend Data Integration Certified Developer / Administrator
• Talend Big Data Certified Developer
• Talend API Services Certified Developer

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role please do apply now.