Kafka Cloud Architect

Woodlawn, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18-09-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Hi There

Greetings of the day!

We are looking to Hire a Talented Professional for the below Job opportunity with one of our clients
If youre interested please share your updated resume at your earliest convenience and Ill be happy to provide more details about the role.

Position: Kafka Cloud Architect

Location: Woodlawn MD (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Key Required Skills

Confluent Kafka Apache Flink Kafka Connect Python Java and SpringBoot.

Job Description

Lead and organize a team of Kafka administrators and developers assign tasks and facilitate weekly Kafka Technical Review meetings with the team.
Work alongside customer to determine expanded use of Kafka within the Agency.
Strategize within Leidos to set up opportunities to explore new technologies to use with Kafka.
Architect design code and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform on Confluent Kafka.
Define strategy for streaming data to data warehouse and integrating event-based architect with microservice based applications.
Establish Kafka best practices and standards for implementing the Kafka platform based on identified use cases and required integration patterns.
Mentor existing team members by imparting expert knowledge to build a high-performing team in our event-driven architecture. Assist developers in choosing correct patterns event modelling and ensuring data integrity.
Provide software expertise in one or more of these areas: application integration enterprise services service-oriented architectures (SOA) security business process management/business rules processing data ingestion/data modeling.
Triage investigate advise in a hands-on capacity to resolve platform issues regardless of component.
Brief management customer team or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience. Share up-to-date insights on the latest Kafka-based solutions formulate creative approaches to address business challenges present and host workshops with senior leaders and translate technical jargons into laymans language and vice-versa.
All other duties as assigned or directed.

Detailed Skills Requirements

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master degree with 10 years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree.
12 years of experience with modern software development including systems/application analysis and design.
7 years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka and/or Apache Kafka).
2 years of combined experience with designing architecting and deploying to AWS cloud platform.
1 years of leading a technical team.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

Best Regards
Mohammad Kashif Ali Lead Recruiter

Hi There Greetings of the day! We are looking to Hire a Talented Professional for the below Job opportunity with one of our clients If youre interested please share your updated resume at your earliest convenience and Ill be happy to provide more details about the role. Position: Kafka C...