Director – Enterprise Architect bpost

Role Summary :

We are seeking a skilled Kafka Solution Architect to design, develop, and maintain robust event driven architecture. This role is ideal for an experienced hands-on solution architect with strong full stack development experience in Java and NodeJS with Kafka who can drive business and technical teams to drive adoption to event driven architecture

• Experience in system design, software architecture and design in AWS cloud for micro services and UI based applications
• Experience setting up Multi region Kafka clusters; mirror makers; DR; Zookeepers; KRaft; replication from scratch.
• Experience in event driven architecture and expertise in application development with a deep focus on solutions
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Brokers and understanding of underlying functionality.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka streams and KSQL DB and understanding of underlying implementation and functionality.
• Hands-on experience with Confluent or Apache Kafka connectors and functionality.
• Good understanding of Kafka client (Producer and consumer) functionality.
• Ability to design and implement technical solutions for the Kafka On-prem and Cloud platform.
• Deep knowledge of Kafka best practices and implementation experience
• Responsible for assisting producer and consumer applications to onboard on to Kafka.
• Good experience with troubleshooting Kafka platform issues.
• Able to troubleshoot and support producer and consumer issues and provide support to application teams.
• Enhance the security of the Kafka platform through access control, encryption, and regular security audits

Qualifications

Travel : Short term business travel to Belgium HQ, as needed.