Technical Architect

Kafka Architect 10+ Years Experience

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Kafka Architect

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and implement robust Kafka-based event-driven architectures for mission-critical, real-time applications.
• Build and maintain Spring Boot microservices that seamlessly integrate with Kafka for efficient event production and consumption.
• Define and optimize Kafka cluster configurations including brokers, partitions, replication strategies, schema registry, access control, and monitoring.
• Partner with DevOps teams to automate deployment pipelines, scaling strategies, and observability for Kafka clusters.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and compliance with data governance standards across distributed systems.
• Tune Kafka for maximum throughput, minimal latency, and efficient storage utilization.
• Drive adoption and integration of stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, kSQL, Apache Flink, or Spark Streaming.
• Work closely with solution architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to design event-driven workflows and data pipelines.
• Establish reusable design patterns, coding standards, and architectural guidelines for Kafka + Spring Boot integrations.
• Lead root cause analysis and performance tuning for production issues in Kafka-based systems.

Ideal Candidate Profile :

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture and distributed systems
• Proven expertise in Kafka ecosystem and Spring Boot microservices
• Strong understanding of event-driven design principles and stream processing
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills