Kafka Architect - #1619849

Job Title: Kafka Architect

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Your Role

A Kafka Real-Time Architect is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, real time data processing systems in Kafka. This role involves architecting Kafka cluster, ensuring high availability, and integrating with other data processing tools and platforms. 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.


• 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.

Your Profile

• 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.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud, and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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