Sr. Talend Developer | W2 Contract | USC Only | Remote.

Need Healthcare experience (ClaimsEDI)
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Talend Developer with strong ETL/data integration expertise and full-stack development capability to design build and support enterprise data pipelines and backend services. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Talend 8 (or later) a solid Java/Spring Boot background and proven production support experience ideally within healthcare provider onboarding and payments systems.
Key Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain ETL/data integration jobs using Talend (Data Integration / Big Data / Cloud) Control M EDW
Build and support backend services and integration components using Java and Spring Boot
Design and optimize data models and queries across Oracle PostgreSQL Terradata and MongoDB
Develop event-driven and streaming data flows using Apache Kafka (producers consumers topic design)
Build schedule and monitor batch and real-time data pipelines feeding downstream healthcare/payment systems
Provide production support for both Talend jobs and Java/Spring Boot services triage failures perform root cause analysis and implement fixes under SLA
Tune ETL job performance troubleshoot data quality issues and manage error-handling/retry frameworks
Collaborate with business and data teams to translate provider onboarding and payment/claims requirements into technical data flows
Write unit/integration tests participate in code reviews and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Talend and Java deployments
Document data mappings job designs runbooks and support procedures
Participate in on-call/rotational production support
Required Skills & Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
10 years of professional experience in data integration/ETL development with strong hands-on Talend expertise (Talend 8.x or later)
Solid development experience with Java and Spring Boot
Strong experience with Oracle PostgreSQL and MongoDB schema design query optimization data modeling across relational and NoSQL systems
Practical experience with Apache Kafka in production data pipelines
Demonstrated production support experience incident management debugging live ETL/data pipelines and backend services performance tuning
Healthcare industry experience specifically in provider onboarding and payment/claims processing systems strongly required
Solid understanding of data integration patterns batch/real-time processing and error-handling frameworks
Experience with job scheduling/orchestration tools (e.g. Talend Management Console Autosys Airflow or similar)
Familiarity with Git CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitLab CI or similar)
Nice to Have

Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (S3 Lambda RDS MWAA/Airflow)
Exposure to monitoring/observability tools (Splunk Grafana ELK CloudWatch)
Experience with microservices architecture and REST API development
Knowledge of HIPAA/regulatory compliance requirements in healthcare data handling
Experience migrating legacy ETL workloads to modern cloud-native pipelines
Soft Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills especially under production incident pressure
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business/domain stakeholders
Ownership mindset comfortable with on-call/rotational support responsibilities