Lead Kafka Engineer

Chartwell Investment Partners

Remote
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Confluent kafka and apache kafka
Kafka architecture, components, and tuning
Confluent schema registry
** Chartwell Investment Partners is seeking a Lead Kafka Engineer to develop and implement specialized code for business application systems interfacing with data warehouses. The role requires expertise in Kafka and AWS, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The position follows a hybrid workstyle policy, requiring in-office presence 10-12 days per month. **

Job Summary

  • Proven experience working with Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka, with a strong understanding of Kafka architecture, components, and tuning.
  • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) on AWS and experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda is required.
  • Familiar with SRE concepts including evaluating and implementing monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch.

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** Chartwell Investment Partners is seeking a Lead Kafka Engineer to develop and implement specialized code for business application systems interfacing with data warehouses. The role requires expertise in Kafka and AWS, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The position follows a hybrid workstyle policy, requiring in-office presence 10-12 days per month. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka
  • Kafka architecture, components, and tuning
  • Confluent Schema Registry
  • Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) on AWS
  • 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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