Technical Architect

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10-10-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Technical Architect

Location: Mclean VA (onsite)

Job Type: full time

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Kafka Architect to design implement and optimize enterprise-grade event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in distributed systems messaging frameworks real-time data pipelines and cloud-native platforms with the ability to guide both technical design and strategic adoption across the enterprise.

Experience with Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud.

Exposure to enterprise data platforms (Snowflake Databricks Hadoop).

Knowledge of financial services banking or credit-union domain is a plus.

Prior experience in architecting large-scale migration from legacy messaging (IBM MQ TIBCO etc.) to Kafka.

Certification in Kafka Confluent or Cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise-wide Kafka architecture design principles and best practices.

Lead the design and deployment of high-throughput low-latency streaming platforms using Apache Kafka.

Architect and manage data pipelines including producers consumers schema registries and stream processing (Kafka Streams ksqlDB Flink Spark).

Ensure scalability reliability and fault tolerance of Kafka clusters in on-prem cloud or hybrid environments.

Establish governance monitoring and security models for Kafka clusters.

Partner with application teams to modernize architectures into event-driven microservices-based solutions.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers engineers and DevOps teams.

Collaborate with enterprise architects data engineers and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Job Title: Technical Architect Location: Mclean VA (onsite) Job Type: full time Job Description We are seeking an experienced Kafka Architect to design implement and optimize enterprise-grade event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in distr...