Kafka Cloud Architect 100% Onsite

Vendor Notes : Must be on-site five days a week in Woodlawn, MD

Key Required Skills :

Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect, Python, Java and Spring Boot.

Position 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 customers to determine expanded use of Kafka within the Agency.
• Strategize within Client 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 architecture (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 jargon into layman's language and vice-versa.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

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