Description
Talend Software Engineer
Whitehall Resources currently require an Talend Software Engineer to work with a key client.
Role and task description -
Software development activity across the full range of development life cycle; requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding/development, testing, implementation and live support.
This may be within new systems development projects or enhancements and fixes to existing applications.
Carrying out development in accordance with the agreed requirements and development standards
Testing of products in accordance with the test strategy to ensure that they are fit for purpose
Assisting the team in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion
Completion of work allocated within agreed time, cost and quality criteria and providing progress reports on assigned work as required
Management and control of problems and change within their area of responsibility, including negotiation with other team members
Problem analysis, investigation and resolution
Playing an active part in Process improvement, awareness of and compliance with all relevant quality processes and procedures, including completion of all the specified quality records
Expertise in several of the listed technologies
ETL toolset: Talend is preferred but knowledge of Pentaho DI, SQL, Informatica would be considered
Database/storage technologies: Oracle mandatory, but MySQL, HDFS, Hbase preferable
Scripting/Programming languages: SQL, PLSQL, HiveQL, Java, Python, Perl, Shellscript, R, Scala, VBA
Operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows
Supporting toolsets: Git - Gitlab Runner CI/CD preferred along with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Excel, Jira, Confluence
Knowledge of the below an advantage:
Analytics and Reporting: Pentaho BA, Hive, SAS, Excel
Platforms: Hadoop, AWS, Azure
Data virtualisation: Denodo
A software engineering background with proven ability to rapidly learn and apply application development process, tools and programming/Scripting languages. Awareness of key SE engineering concepts and governance (design, development, config management and version control, quality control, continuous integration, release/deployment, documentation, built in supportability, built in maintainability, re-use and extensibility)
Specific experience of data solutions development addressing data extraction, transformation and load (ETL) processing and data analytics and reporting requirements.
Familiar with Agile software development principles and practices and experience of delivery as a member of an Agile Scrum team utilising Scrum methodology.
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.