Kafka Engineer

Job Title: Kafka Engineer Location: Minneapolis, MN Job Type: Contract (Long Term) Experience:8+ years Job Overview We are looking for an experienced Kafka Engineer to join our team in Minneapolis, MN. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in infrastructure analysis with hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka administration and cloud platform services. Key Responsibilities Provision and manage Kafka services and Kafka clusters in production environments Handle Kafka client auth

Kafka Developer Role Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Kafka Engineer to design, build, and optimize real-time data streaming solutions within the financial services domain. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Apache Kafka, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures, with a focus on secure, scalable, and high-performance data pipelines supporting mission-critical financial applications. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain Kafka-based streaming platf

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for. We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that

Job Description: Design and implement Kafka-based event streaming solutions: topic architecture, partitioning strategy, consumer group patterns, ordering semantics, retention, and replay.Build and operate Confluent Platform components: Schema Registry for schema management, compatibility, and evolution (Avro/JSON Schema/Protobuf).Kafka Connect connectors (source/sink), including performance tuning, error handling, and DLQ patterns.ksqlDB for streaming transformations, aggregations, and joins whe