Kafka Architect - Event Streaming

About the Role :

We are seeking an Expert Kafka professional with overall experience of 12+ Years. This senior role requires a technical professional who can design highly available, scalable, and secure Kafka ecosystems, establish streaming best practices, and drive the adoption of event-driven patterns across the organization.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Architect and design enterprise-scale Confluent Kafka infrastructure supporting high-throughput, low-latency event streaming requirements.

- Design Kafka cluster topologies including multi-region, multi-datacenter, and hybrid cloud deployments.

- Architect Confluent Platform components: Confluent Server, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Confluent Control Center.

- Design end-to-end event streaming solutions using Kafka for real-time data integration and event-driven architectures.

- Optimize Kafka cluster performance: throughput tuning, latency reduction, and resource utilization.

- Architect comprehensive Kafka security models including authentication, authorization, and encryption.

- Design monitoring and observability solutions for Kafka infrastructure using Confluent Control Center, Prometheus, Grafana.

- Establish Kafka development standards, coding guidelines, and best practices for engineering teams.

- Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, and architects to design streaming solutions.

- Research and evaluate emerging technologies in the event streaming and real-time analytics space.

Skills

Kafka, Confluent Kafka, Technical Architect, Apache Flink, Apache ZooKeeper, Streaming Protocols, Data Integration