SOLUTION ARCHITECT, YORKSHIRE

Solution Architect
Job title: Solution Architect
Location: Leeds, UK (Hybrid- 3 days/week)
Type: Contract
Client: Wipro

Job description

As part of the CTO Data Ingestion Service, the incumbent will be required to:

Designing and architecting scalable, real-time systems in Kafka.
Configuring, deploying, and maintaining Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and scalability.
Integrating Kafka with other data processing tools and platforms such as Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Spark Streaming Schema Registry, Flink and Beam.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design solutions that meet business needs.
Implementing security measures to protect Kafka clusters and data streams.
Monitoring Kafka performance and troubleshooting issues to ensure optimal performance.
Providing technical guidance and support to development operations teams.
Staying updated with the latest Kafka features, updates and industry practices.

Mandatory keywords:

Only mention on-premise/cloudera open source kafka experience
Spend a lot of time on Disaster Recovery aspects
Read up and explain new features like KRAFT
Kafka Resiliency
Any Real time tech experience like Spark

Required Skills Experience

Extensive Experience with Apache Kafka and real-time architecture including event driven frameworks.
Strong Knowledge of Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Spark Streaming, Schema Registry, Flink and Beam.
Experience with cloud platform such as GCP Pub/Sub.
Excellent problem-solving skills.

Knowledge Experience / Qualifications

Knowledge of Kafka data pipelines and messaging solutions to support critical business operations and enable real-time data processing.
Monitoring Kafka performance, enhancing decision making and operational efficiency
Collaborating with development teams to integrate Kafka applications and services.
Maintain an architectural library for Kafka deployment models and patterns
Helping developers to maintain Kafka connectors such as JDBC, MongoDB and S3 connectors, along with topics schemas, to streamline data ingestion from databases, NoSQL data stores and cloud storage, enabling faster data insight.

Kafka, Spark

Kafka, Spark