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
Minimum 4 years’ bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science engineering or related fieldProven experience in Confluent Platform implementation and maintenanceOverall, 17 years in Software Architect role with a minimum 4 years of experience in Kafka and event driven architectureSkilled in using Helm and Kubernetes for deploying KafkaStrong Architecture, programming and design skills in Java and NodeJSWeb Development : JavaScript / Typescript, Angular, HTML, CSSBackend & API Development : Building robust backend services, including RESTful APIs and microservices architectures, Java Spring Boot, NodeJS.Background in programming with Python or Shell Scripting and Avro or equivalent for schema validationProficiency in Cloud technologies across AWS covering the various services involved compute, networking, storage, Serverless, IAM, Lambda, ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB and PostgreSQL aspectsExperience in Logistics domain is desiredExcellent written, verbal, presentation, collaboration and process facilitation skillsTravel : Short term business travel to Belgium HQ, as needed.