Kafka Architect
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Job Location:
Bethesda, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: Kafka Architect
Job Location: Bethesda MD
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
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Lead the architecture design and deployment of Apache Kafka-based platforms.
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Define best practices and standards for Kafka implementation integration and security across the organization.
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Collaborate with business stakeholders solution architects and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable and resilient Kafka architectures.
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Oversee the setup configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and performance.
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Develop and enforce policies for data retention topic management security and disaster recovery.
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Guide migration and integration projects including legacy system modernization and cloud adoption using Kafka.
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Mentor and train development teams on Kafka concepts tools and best practices.
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Monitor system health troubleshoot complex issues and implement proactive performance improvements.
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Stay abreast of new developments in the Kafka ecosystem and recommend adoption of relevant technologies.
Required Skills & Qualifications
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Bachelors or masters degree in computer science Engineering or a related field.
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14-16 years of total IT experience including at least 5 years architecting and managing large-scale Kafka deployments.
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Expertise in Apache Kafka internals including producers consumers brokers partitions replication and Zookeeper.
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Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture stream processing (Kafka Streams ksqlDB) and real-time analytics.
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Deep experience integrating Kafka with various data sources sinks and enterprise systems (e.g. databases microservices cloud platforms).
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Hands-on experience with Kafka security (SSL SASL ACLs) data governance and compliance.
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Proficiency in scripting and programming languages commonly used with Kafka (such as Java Scala or Python).
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Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes) as related to Kafka deployments.
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Excellent problem-solving communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers.
Key Skills
- APIs
- Pegasystems
- Spring
- SOAP
- .NET
- Hybris
- Solution Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Adobe Experience Manager
- J2EE
- Java
- Oracle
