Kafka Real Time Architect
Hybrid
Leeds, United Kingdom
Freelance
23-04-2025
Job Specifications
Job Description:
Mandatory Skills: Ansible Tower
Experience: 5-8 Years
A Kafka Real-Time Architect is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, real time data processing systems in Kafka. This role involves architecting Kafka cluster, ensuring high availability, and integrating with other data processing tools and platforms
As part of the CTO Data Ingestion Service, the incumbent will be required to:
Designing and architecting scalable, real-time systems in Kafka.
Configuring, deploying, and maintaining Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and scalability.
Integrating Kafka with other data processing tools and platforms such as Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Spark Streaming Schema Registry, Flink and Beam.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design solutions that meet business needs.
Implementing security measures to protect Kafka clusters and data streams.
Monitoring Kafka performance and troubleshooting issues to ensure optimal performance.
Providing technical guidance and support to development operations teams.
Staying updated with the latest Kafka features, updates and industry practices.
Required Skills Experience
Extensive Experience with Apache Kafka and real-time architecture including event driven frameworks.
Strong Knowledge of Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Spark Streaming, Schema Registry, Flink and Beam.
Experience with cloud platform such as GCP Pub/Sub.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications
Knowledge of Kafka data pipelines and messaging solutions to support critical business operations and enable real-time data processing.
Monitoring Kafka performance, enhancing decision making and operational efficiency
Collaborating with development teams to integrate Kafka applications and services.
Maintain an architectural library for Kafka deployment models and patterns
Helping developers to maintain Kafka connectors such as JDBC, MongoDB and S3 connectors, along with topics schemas, to streamline data ingestion from databases, NoSQL data stores and cloud storage, enabling faster data insight.
About the Company
Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is a global IT services company focusing on Enterprise solutions and integration services consulting (SAP/Oracle), MRO Master Data Management, software development, product solutions for education segment, and IT consulting services offering outsourcing solutions to enterprises worldwide. Since inception in 2000, Infoplus has focused on a principle to maximize output for its clients and partners through cost-savings, enhanced productivity and quality. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, we... Know more
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