Kafka Architect

Job Title : Kafka Architect

Location : Bethesda MD

Work Mode : Hybrid 3-4 days work from office (local candidates)

Years of Exp : 15 years

Note : Only Local Candidates & No Visa Sponsorship

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture design and deployment of Apache Kafka-based platforms.

Define best practices and standards for Kafka implementation integration and security across the organization.

Collaborate with business stakeholders solution architects and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable and resilient Kafka architectures.

Oversee the setup configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and performance.

Develop and enforce policies for data retention topic management security and disaster recovery.

Guide migration and integration projects including legacy system modernization and cloud adoption using Kafka.

Mentor and train development teams on Kafka concepts tools and best practices.

Monitor system health troubleshoot complex issues and implement proactive performance improvements.

Stay abreast of new developments in the Kafka ecosystem and recommend adoption of relevant technologies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

14-16 years of total IT experience including at least 5 years architecting and managing large-scale Kafka deployments.

Expertise in Apache Kafka internals including producers consumers brokers partitions replication and ZooKeeper.

Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture stream processing (Kafka Streams ksqlDB) and real-time analytics.

Deep experience integrating Kafka with various data sources sinks and enterprise systems (e.g. databases microservices cloud platforms).

Hands-on experience with Kafka security (SSL SASL ACLs) data governance and compliance.

Proficiency in scripting and programming languages commonly used with Kafka (such as Java Scala or Python).

Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes) as related to Kafka deployments.

Excellent problem-solving communication and stakeholder management skills.

Experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers.

Required Skills :

KUBERNETESJAVADOCKERPYTHONSCALADATA GOVERNANCE

Key Skills

APIs,Pegasystems,Spring,SOAP,.NET,Hybris,Solution Architecture,Service-Oriented Architecture,Adobe Experience Manager,J2EE,Java,Oracle

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1