KAFKA DEVELOPER - 100% REMOTE
Looking for a Kafka Developer that is comfortable working across teams on multiple, high impact projects. This developer's role will be valued as part of the constant maturing of Kafka use and event driven architecture. Members of this team are responsible for the overall use and implementation of Kafka components including the platform, observability, governance, best practices, and solution development. The ideal candidate will have experience in Kafka, Cloud, Java, and has worked in the SAP environment.
KAFKA DEVELPER REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years of recent, hands on Kafka development experience
- Be able to demonstrate expert knowledge regarding the primary components of Kafka and their functions (brokers, zookeeper, topics)
- An understanding of GCP infrastructure and components
- Experience with streaming data from SAP and S4 HANA
- Experience with Java
- Experience in Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices
KAFKA DEVELOPER RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS:
- Develop and implement solutions using Kafka
- Administer and improve use of Kafka across the organization including Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Streams, and custom implementations.
- Work with multiple teams to ensure best use of Kafka and data-safe event streaming.
- Understand and apply event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka best practices. Enable development teams to do the same.
- Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modeling, and ensuring data integrity.
- Continuous learning to be a Confluent/Kafka subject matter expert.
- Work with Kafka API's (e.g. metadata, metrics, admin) to provide pro-active insights and automation.
- Perform regular reviews of performance data to ensure efficiency and resiliency.
- Contribute regularly to event-driven patterns, best practices, and guidance.
- Review feature release and change logs for Kafka, and other related components to ensure best use of these systems across the organization.
- Work with lead to ensure all teams are aware of technology changes and impact.
- Acquire a deep understanding of source and sink connector technical details for a variety of platforms including PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and others as required.
Department: Preferred Vendors
This is a contract position