Kafka Architect

Greetings from Skysoft

Role: Kafka Solution Architect
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Experience: 12+ Years 

Job Description

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.

Required Skills

·         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.

Responsibilities

·         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.

Preferred 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).