Kafka Solution Architect

• Architect enterprise-scale event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.
• Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance REST APIs.
• Develop Kafka producers, consumers, streams, and event-processing applications.
• Define API standards, governance, versioning, and best practices across enterprise platforms.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, and DevOps teams to build highly available distributed systems.
• Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, resiliency, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving Kafka, APIs, and distributed applications.
• Conduct architecture reviews, mentor development teams, and establish technical best practices.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Client is seeking an experienced Kafka Solution Architect to design and build highly scalable, event-driven enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Apache Kafka, API design and integration, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on development experience, and the ability to architect enterprise-grade messaging and integration solutions., * 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.

• Expert-level experience with Apache Kafka, including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform.
• Strong expertise in REST API design, development, integration, and API security.
• Hands-on experience designing event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or MuleSoft.
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous messaging, event streaming, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of messaging patterns, fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
• Experience implementing OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS, and API authentication/authorization.
• Strong SQL skills with experience in relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills., * Confluent Kafka Certification.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Knowledge of GraphQL and AsyncAPI.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).