# Senior Data Engineer (Apache Kafka)

ABOUT THE ROLE In this role, you will work as a Senior Data Engineer on a next-generation data platform supporting a broad portfolio of energy-sector products. You will design canonical and semantic data models, integrate fragmented data sources, build real-time pipelines, and take ownership of the Apache Kafka platform. The role is focused on creating reliable, reusable data foundations for cross-product reporting, analytics, AI/ML, and data observability. RESPONSIBILITIES Design and maintain canonical and semantic data models across multiple products and data domains Define data contracts, standards, and integration patterns for heterogeneous systems Build and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines Architect, deploy, and administer Apache Kafka clusters Own Kafka topic and partition design, replication, security, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning Create data foundations for reporting, analytics, machine learning, and LLM-based capabilities Implement data lineage, usage tracking, telemetry, observability, and data quality monitoring Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and application engineering teams Define and maintain data di

- **Id**: 4027594
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/softserve-senior-data-engineer-apache-kafka>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Bulgaria
- **Countries**: BG
- **Hiring countries**: BG
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T13:59:38Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T13:59:38Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3144
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 57039
- **Name**: SoftServe
- **Domain**: softserveinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/softserve>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Data Vault** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Feature Store** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Fabric** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:24:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:08:03Z

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