Fully REMOTE - Sr. Kafka Implementation Engineer (W2 candidates only)

Overview

On Site
Full Time
Contract - W2
Contract - 2 day((s))

Skills

Java
Kafka
apache
confluent
messaging

Job Details

Job Title: Kafka Implementation Engineer (Remote)

Location: Remote

Duration: Long-term Contract

Role Overview

Our client is looking for a Kafka Implementation Engineer with deep Confluent Kafka experience to lead Kafka setup, advise on architecture, and support global adoption. This is a technical leadership role, part hands-on, part mentorship, part advisory. You'll work directly with teams to stand up Kafka environments, troubleshoot complex issues, and serve as the go-to escalation point. This role is ideal for someone who knows how Kafka fits into enterprise systems and has helped clients move from zero to production.

Key Responsibilities

  • Set up and configure new Kafka environments (Confluent or open source) from the ground up.
  • Design and advise on Kafka messaging flows that support real-time alerting for banking operations.
  • Guide internal teams on Kafka best practices, tuning, and operational readiness.
  • Act as a senior technical advisor-consulting on use cases, architecture choices, and scaling strategies.
  • Provide mentorship and hands-on support to engineering teams during Kafka adoption.
  • Be the escalation point for Kafka-related issues across dev and production environments.
  • Help drive Kafka enablement across Santander's global footprint, particularly in Spain.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka: setup, development, tuning, and monitoring.
  • Proven experience implementing Kafka in enterprise environments, including alerting and observability use cases.
  • Clear understanding of Kafka internals: topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, retention, etc.
  • Experience mentoring and advising engineers and architects on Kafka strategy and troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams or ksqlDB is a plus.
  • Able to work independently and collaborate across distributed global teams.

Nice to Have

  • Banking or financial services experience.
  • Experience working with international teams (Spain in particular).
  • Familiarity with cloud-native Kafka deployments (e.g., Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).
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