GDH · 9 hours ago
Kafka Platform Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$65/hr - $69.62/hr
8+ years expGDH is seeking a Kafka Platform Architect to design, implement, and govern a scalable and secure enterprise event streaming platform utilizing Confluent Kafka. The role involves leading the technical direction for the platform, ensuring resilience, performance, and compliance while collaborating with various teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards.
ConsultingEmploymentStaffing Agency
Responsibilities
Define and evolve enterprise Kafka architecture, including cluster sizing, partitioning, replication, and high availability strategies
Establish best practices for producers, consumers, and stream processing applications using Confluent components such as Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and kSQLDB
Design multi-region disaster recovery and failover strategies aligned with business continuity needs
Implement naming conventions, topic lifecycle policies, and schema evolution standards to ensure consistent platform governance
Define security guardrails utilizing RBAC, ACLs, encryption (TLS, SASL), and leverage Confluent Control Center for platform security management
Set up performance monitoring and alerting for throughput, latency, consumer lag, and broker health using integrated observability tools
Optimize Kafka performance at scale through configuration tuning to enhance reliability and cost efficiency
Architect connectors and integrations for core banking systems, cloud data lakes, and analytics platforms
Develop reusable patterns and onboarding documentation to enable self-service provisioning for application teams
Collaborate with InfoSec, Cloud Engineering, and Data Governance teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards
Evaluate emerging Kafka features and event streaming trends; drive automation initiatives for provisioning, scaling, and patching using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and Ansible
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 8 years experience in enterprise data architecture or platform engineering roles
At least 4 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production environments
Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, schema management (Avro/Protobuf), and stream processing
Expertise in Kafka security mechanisms (TLS, SASL, RBAC), performance tuning, and observability
Proficiency with cloud-native deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes-based Kafka operations
Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud Kafka deployment architectures
Experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines related to Kafka infrastructure
Preferred
Knowledge of financial services compliance and governance requirements is a plus
Company
GDH
GDH is consulting staffing firm that specializes in providing IT engineering-based candidates to commercial and government sectors.
501-1000 employees
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