Talend lead

Job Title: Senior Talend Lead

Location: Reading, PA

Contract: 6+ Months

Pay Rate: $63/hr

H1B

Virtual interview 

Local candidates 

Note: Local to Reading, PA - in client office 4 days/week

Talend Platform Expertise:

• Architect and develop solutions using:
• Talend Data Integration
• Talend Cloud (Management Console, Job Server, Remote Engine)
• Talend Data Quality and Master Data Management (MDM)
• Design reusable Talend frameworks, components, and templates.
• Ensure standardized logging, error handling, retry, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Participate in architecture reviews and executive discussions.

Data Migration & Modernization

Lead large-scale data migrations (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, legacy systems ? Cloud Data Platforms).

Define migration strategies:

• One-time migration
• CDC / incremental loads
• Near-zero downtime cutovers
• Validate data accuracy through reconciliation, profiling, and quality checks.

Cloud & Platform Integration

• Integrate Talend with cloud data platforms such as:
• AWS (S3, Redshift, RDS, Glue)
• Azure (ADLS, Synapse, SQL DB)
• Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage)
• Implement secure connectivity with APIs, message queues, and microservices.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, IAM, and encryption standards.

Governance, Quality & Compliance

• Implement data quality rules, validations, and exception handling.
• Enforce metadata management and lineage tracking.
• Support regulatory and compliance requirements (GDPR, SOX, HIPAA where applicable).
• Align Talend solutions with enterprise data governance frameworks.

DevOps & Automation

• Integrate Talend pipelines with CI/CD frameworks.
• Enable automated testing (unit, regression, data validation).
• Manage version control, promotions, and environment handling.
• Support monitoring and operational readiness.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor Talend developers and data engineers.
• Collaborate with:
• Data Architects
• DBAs
• Cloud Engineers
• Business Analysts
• Product Owners