Lead Kafka Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our client is a newly created regulatory technology start up which brings global financial institutions together to optimise standards in compliance, by providing a trusted platform to exchange and enhance information.

Are you ready to be part of the revolutionary organisation that will solve one of the most critical challenges facing the financial services industry?

The role

A new and exciting opportunity within our technology team, leading the development and delivery of the central platform's Kafka streaming services.

Reporting to the Delivery Manager.

What you'll do
Key responsibilities in this role will include (but not be limited to):

Leading the detailed design, engineering and implementation of Kafka streaming services within the platform
Providing expert knowledge and advice to senior technical management team
Establish, communicate and advocate best practice and design patterns for Kafka consumption in our business
Defining and own the technical roadmap for Kafka service, ensuring the provision and operation of a performant, resilient and secure solution, aligned to growing business needs
Working closely with our Information security and governance teams in ensuring that compliance and internal controls requirements are met
Working with the the Platform teams and delivery partner teams to install, configure and operationalise Kafka deployments
Producing detailed designs for approval by the Design Authority
Owning and developing the technical relationship and ways of working with our Kafka vendors

What you'll need

68 years of relevant experience in an Engineering role with demonstrable experience in Apache/Confluent Kafka technologies, event driven microservices, in an highly distributed enterprise environment.
Strong operational knowledge and background in running Kafka clusters at scale
Experience working in Financial Services sector or a large complex and/or global environment
Expert level implementation skills with Java 11 and above using SOLID principles
Hands on experience in using Java Spring Boot, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Cloud Stream with Kafka and KStreams

- comfortable in using Spring Reactive programming, Threads and Annotation processors

Experience in developing for and deploying to public cloud products especially to AWS EKS Kubernetes environment.
Understanding of cloud security concepts and technologies
Comfortable in using different Linux environments e.g. Redhat
Confluent Kafka admin and developer certification preferred
Experience of working in Agile/Scrum with virtual teams
Experience in DevOps, scrum/agile methodologiesand using CI/CD tools such as Github, Genkins and Terraform.