Date Posted: 11/03/2025
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 490905
Industry: Financial Services
Job Title: Kafka Administrator
Job Location: Jersey City, NJ, USA, 07097
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 9
Min Hourly Rate($): 65.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 74.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Apache, Business Analysis, Confluent, Kafka, Project Management
Experience Desired: Experience in Kafka Administration (8 yrs); Experience in Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, Confluent Control Center (8 yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education: Master's Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
Education
Required: Bachelor's/University degree.
Preferred: Master's degree.
Preferred Qualifications
Attitude: Service-oriented.
Work Environment: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements Gathering: Experience working or leading requirement gathering efforts for multiple large development projects simultaneously.
Scripting: 2+ years of experience with either of the scripting technologies Ansible (preferred).
Development Role: Experience as a senior-level professional in an applications development role.
Management Experience: Stakeholder and people management experience.
Leadership: Demonstrated leadership skills.
Project Management: Proven project management skills.
Industry Knowledge: Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards.
Communication: Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 6+ years of experience in a relevant field.
Confluent Platform Expertise: Expert in installing and maintaining Confluent Platform components including Apache Kafka, Confluent Control Center, Confluent Schema Registry, connectors, Confluent Replicator, and Confluent Security Plugins.
Confluent Kafka Administration: Strong administration experience for Confluent Kafka.
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Administration: Experience administering Event-Driven Architecture Components: Apache Kafka, Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, Confluent Control Center, Confluent Schema Registry, Connect cluster, etc.
Platform Lifecycle Management: Experience performing Confluent Platform installation, upgrades, and maintenance.
Large-Scale Cluster Management: Experience in managing large-scale multi-node Kafka cluster environments.
Role Overview
The Kafka Messaging Infrastructure Lead is a pivotal role responsible for partnering with various technology teams to ensure seamless integration of functions, identifying and defining necessary system enhancements, analyzing existing system logic, identifying problems, and recommending and implementing solutions within the Kafka messaging infrastructure. This role requires an advanced understanding of application support principles and interpretive thinking to develop innovative solutions.
Responsibilities
Partnership & Integration: Collaborate with multiple technology teams and management to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet organizational goals.
System Enhancement & Problem Solving: Identify and define necessary system enhancements, analyze existing system logic, pinpoint problems, and recommend/implement solutions.
Expertise & Analysis: Provide expert-level understanding of application support principles. Formulate and define systems scope and objectives for complex, high-impact application enhancements and problem resolution through in-depth analysis and evaluation of complex business processes, systems, and industry standards, document requirements.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Systems Analysts to determine and document system impacts and support requirements.
Technology Implications: Consider the implications of applying technology to the current environment.
Risk Management: Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and security issues; communicate impact; and propose risk mitigation options.
Mentorship & Leadership: Act as an advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts; allocate work.
Strategic Influence: Directly impact the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel, or provided services.
Communication & Diplomacy: Persuade and influence others through strong, comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills.
Compliance & Ethics: Appropriately assess risk in business decisions, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Client, its clients, and assets. This includes driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.
Other Duties: Perform other duties and functions as assigned.
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
For information and details on employment benefits offered with this position, please visit here. Should you have any questions/concerns, please contact our HR Department via our secure website. California Pay Equity:
For information and details on pay equity laws in California, please visit the State of California Department of Industrial Relations' website here. Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances. If you need assistance in completing this application, or during any phase of the application, interview, hiring, or employment process, whether due to a disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).
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