Job DescriptionLocation: Houston (Hybrid - at least 3 days onsite/week)
Visa Sponsorship: We offer sponsorship under specific treaty-based U.S. work visas, including TN and E-2 (for eligible Canadian, Mexican, and French citizens). We do not support or transfer other visa types (e.g., H-1B).
We are looking for a
Senior Data Integration Developer to support a business-critical Energy Trading and Risk Management environment for one of our key energy clients
The role sits within a small technical team supporting
FIS Aligne, a legacy on-premise ETRM platform, and its broader data ecosystem. The successful candidate will take significant ownership of the platform's integrations, data pipelines, databases, and downstream applications.
The environment supports approximately
300+ data pipelines, 150+ reports and dashboards, 4-6 custom applications, and 250 business users across Front Office, Middle Office, Market Risk, Settlements, and other operational teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot ETL and data integration pipelines.
- Build and support SSIS / SQL Server Integration Services solutions in an on-premise Microsoft environment.
- Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and database processes.
- Support data ingestion from market, pricing, weather, broker, ISO, trade, and transactional data sources.
- Maintain downstream data warehouses supporting historical reporting, KPIs, dashboards, and analytics.
- Investigate production issues, failed data pipelines, and data discrepancies.
- Support integrations between FIS Aligne and upstream/downstream systems.
- Work directly with business users across trading, risk, settlements, and operations.
- Contribute to Python-based data processing, automation, and integration solutions.
- Take ownership of critical systems while the organization continues its migration toward its future trading platform.
Qualifications- Bachelor degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or Quantitative finance
- 5+ years of relevant development/data integration experience, ideally in a senior capacity.
- Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, SSIS, ETL, and data integration.
- Strong experience working with on-premise Microsoft technologies.
- Experience with data warehousing, data ingestion, database development, and production support.
- Python development experience.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and database skills.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership within a small technical team.
- Strong communication skills and ability to interact directly with business stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience within energy trading, commodities, or ETRM environments.
- Understanding of concepts such as P&L, positions, trade types, market data, pricing data, and front-to-back trading workflows.
- Experience with FIS Aligne is highly desirable but not required.
- Experience with other ETRM platforms such as Openlink / Endur is also relevant.
- DBA / database administration experience is a strong plus.
Company's BenefitsAt Talan, we invest in our employees' well-being and empower them with benefits, including:
- 💵 Competitive salary between USD $120000 - US$165000
- 💸401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- 🌴15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
- 📴8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
- ❤🩹Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
- 🦺Voluntary STD and LTD
- 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits
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