Arkhya Tech. Inc. · 4 hours ago
Senior Kafka Data Engineer
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expArkhya Tech. Inc. is hiring a Senior Kafka Data Engineer to lead the architecture and development of enterprise-scale streaming data pipelines. This role involves hands-on building, production support, and collaboration with onsite US clients to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
ConsultingInformation TechnologySoftware
Hiring Manager
Abhishek Singh
Responsibilities
Architect, build, and operate real‑time and near‑real‑time Kafka‑based pipelines
Lead development using Confluent Kafka (core focus)
Design and implement stream processing using:
Apache Flink (preferred) or
Apache Spark Structured Streaming
Define Kafka best practices for:
Topic design, partitioning, and delivery semantics
Error handling and retries
Backpressure management and performance tuning
Design and maintain batch and hybrid ETL pipelines using SQL Server
ETL tools preferred: SSIS
Own data quality, reliability, and observability across streaming pipelines
Work directly with onsite clients to:
Translate business requirements into technical solutions
Defend architectural decisions
Troubleshoot complex Kafka and streaming production issues
Mentor engineers and raise overall engineering standards
Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams in containerized, distributed environments
Qualification
Required
8+ years of hands‑on data engineering experience
Deep expertise in Confluent Kafka: Architecture and cluster design, Topic and partition strategy, Delivery semantics (exactly‑once, at‑least‑once, etc.)
Strong hands‑on experience with Apache Flink or Apache Spark Structured Streaming
Excellent SQL skills (complex analytics, performance tuning)
Strong experience in Python, Java, or .NET (C#) (At least one OOP language is mandatory)
Solid understanding of: Streaming and event‑driven architectures, ETL / ELT patterns, Data modeling and orchestration
Experience with SQL Server
Preferred
Apache Flink
SSIS
Docker / Kubernetes
CI/CD for data pipelines
Cloud or hybrid data platforms
Company
Arkhya Tech. Inc.
Arkhya Technologies, Inc.
201-500 employees
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