Lead Kafka Engineer

Raymond James

Remote
Hybrid (10-12 days in-office per month)
Confluent kafka and apache kafka
Kafka architecture, components, and tuning
Confluent schema registry
Raymond James is seeking a Lead Kafka Engineer to develop and implement specialized code that connects business applications with data warehouses. The role requires expertise in Confluent Kafka, AWS infrastructure, and programming languages, with a hybrid work expectation of 10-12 days in the office each month

Job Summary

  • Develops and implements specialized code supporting the interfaces between an organization's business application systems and a data warehouse.
  • Proven experience working with Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka, with a strong understanding of Kafka architecture, components, and tuning.
  • Familiar with SRE concepts which includes evaluating and implementing monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch.

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Raymond James is seeking a Lead Kafka Engineer to develop and implement specialized code that connects business applications with data warehouses. The role requires expertise in Confluent Kafka, AWS infrastructure, and programming languages, with a hybrid work expectation of 10-12 days in the office each month.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka
  • Kafka architecture, components, and tuning
  • Confluent Schema Registry
  • Terraform for infrastructure as code
  • AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)
  • Linux Virtual Machines for Kafka Connect
  • SRE concepts and observability tools

Nice-to-have

  • Spark Streaming and Apache Flink
  • Financial Services Industry knowledge

Key Requirements

  • 10 years of relevant development or engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s in Computer and Information Science or related field
  • General Experience - 6 to 10 years

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