Technical Lead

Qualification - BE/BTech/MCA only

Location – Mumbai

Banking domain is must

Working week – 5 days with alternate Saturdays working from client location as per Bank norms

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Job Title: Senior Kafka Platform Technical Lead – BFSI Domain

Location: Mumbai, India

Experience: 7 to 14 Years

Kafka Experience: Minimum 3+ Years hands-on experience

Industry Domain: Mandatory experience in Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance (BFSI)

Job Summary:

Senior Kafka Platform technical Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage

  high-throughput and resilient Kafka clusters

  in production environments.
• Lead Kafka cluster management including installation, configuration, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Support Kafka architecture evolution from

  Zookeeper to KRaft mode

  .
• Configure and manage

  Kafka components

  : brokers, producers, consumers, topics, partitions, replication, schema registry, and connectors.
• Develop automation scripts using

  Shell/Bash

  to support operational efficiencies and reliability.
• Manage and deploy Kafka components using

  Docker

  and container orchestration best practices.
• Work closely with application developers to support

  Kafka integration

  , capacity planning, and throughput optimization.
• Monitor system health and ensure uptime, availability, and performance of Kafka platforms.
• Tune and monitor

  Java-based microservices

  with focus on

  JVM performance (GC, heap, thread, and CPU profiling)

  .
• Create and maintain detailed operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base.

Technical Skills:

Mandatory:

• Kafka (Apache/Confluent)

  – Strong production experience (minimum 3+ years)

• Zookeeper

  and

  KRaft (Kafka Raft Mode)

  – Deep knowledge of coordination layers and migration strategies

• Linux Administration

  – Hands-on with system performance tuning, process monitoring, and file systems

• Shell Scripting

  – Proficiency in Bash for automation and log analysis

• Docker

  – Containerizing Kafka services, managing container lifecycles

• Java

  – Experience developing/debugging JVM-based applications

• JVM Tuning

  – Proficient in analyzing garbage collection (GC), heap sizing, and thread dump analysis

Preferred/Nice to Have:

• Experience with

  Confluent Platform

  (Connect, KSQL, Control Center)
• Understanding of

  Kafka security

  (SSL, SASL, ACLs)
• Familiarity with

  monitoring tools

  (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Experience in

  CI/CD pipelines

  using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.
• Cloud platforms: Kafka on AWS/MSK, Azure, or GCP