Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Unable to Provide Sponsorship
Skills
kafka
Java
Springboot
Job Details
Position Title : Kafka Developer Location : Washington DC/ VA/ MD. Contract : 12+ months with possible Extension
Job Description :
Job Description :
- 6+ years of recent, hands on Kafka development experience
- Be able to demonstrate expert knowledge regarding the primary components of Kafka and their functions (brokers, zookeeper, topics)
- An understanding of Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and components
- Experience with streaming data from SAP and S4 HANA
- Experience with Java
- Experience in Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices
- Develop and implement solutions using Kafka
- Administer and improve use of Kafka across the organization including Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Streams, and custom implementations.
- Work with multiple teams to ensure best use of Kafka and data-safe event streaming.
- Understand and apply event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka best practices. Enable development teams to do the same.
- Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modeling, and ensuring data integrity.
- Continuous learning to be a Confluent/Kafka subject matter expert.
- Work with Kafka API's (e.g. metadata, metrics, admin) to provide pro-active insights and automation.
- Perform regular reviews of performance data to ensure efficiency and resiliency.
- Contribute regularly to event-driven patterns, best practices, and guidance.
- Review feature release and change logs for Kafka, and other related components to ensure best use of these systems across the organization.
- Work with lead to ensure all teams are aware of technology changes and impact.
- Acquire a deep understanding of source and sink connector technical details for a variety of platforms including PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and others as required