Kafka Administrator

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Kafka Administrator for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Mississauga, ON.

Responsibilities :

• 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.
• Requires an advanced understanding of application support principles and interpretive thinking to develop innovative solutions.
• 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 the firm, 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.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's/University degree.
• 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.

Preferred Skills:

• Master's degree.
• 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.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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