Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a Kafka Architect to join a European Organisation on an initial 12 month contract.
Hybrid role
Required to work, full time onsite in Luxembourg for a week once a month.
Your role will not only be related to technical implementations, it will be necessary to ensure that the Kafka service fits perfectly into the organization already in place.
Your role:
Full Service lifecycle implementation from requirements analysis, platform selection and setup, technical architecture design, service design and development, testing, and deployment
Develop Enterprise's Apache Kafka Distributed Messaging and Integration Ecosystem
Build automation and tooling for the service
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform delivering the Kafka service
Collaborate with other teams to integrate into their systems
Provide technical support for Kafka Service to internal stakeholders
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Data Platform, DevOps, and Integration Teams to ensure option follows standard best practices
What you bring:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent experience
A minimum of 3+ years developing enterprise class integrations between on-premises and cloud applications (on-prem to on-prem, on-prem to cloud, and cloud-to-cloud)
2+ years of experience building integrations using Kafka
Strong knowledge of EAI/SOA best practices, development methodologies & standards
Strong knowledge of API based integration and micro services design patterns & best practices
Solid Programming skills using J2EE, Design Patterns, JMS, SOAP / REST Web Services.
Experience with Kafka administration, configuration, and tuning.
Demonstrated experience implementing Kafka architecture, rules, caching, etc.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written skills and the ability to interact with all levels of stakeholders, support personnel, and clients
Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills
Certifications on Confluent Kafka, Cloud Technologies is a plus
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in Kafka Capacity planning, installation, administration/Platform management and deep knowledge of Kafka internals
Knowledge of Integration Design patterns for building middleware systems ground up using Streaming, Pub/Sub, Message Queue, Message sequencing, Batch message processing, error handling and reconciliation mechanisms.
Knowledge of Web Services Interoperability, WS-* standards and ability to suggest, criticize and formulate solutions in a multi-vendor and architecture committee meetings.
Good knowledge of SOA architecture and fluency in web service standards such as WSSE and technologies (XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, REST) is a must
Good understanding of relational databases; experience working with different adaptors (SAP, SFDC, DB) and JMS queues required.
Knowledge of Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management and Performance Monitoring and KPI for end-to-end flow execution.
Splunk integration desirable.
Lead large to small development teams in multi-phase, heterogonous work environments, with multiple work streams
Strong knowledge and usage of DevOps and GitOps principles
Ability to work with team members in a teleworking model
Ability to work in an agile environment
Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality