Kafka Developer

Job Description

Skill Sets needed:

Kafka Developer experience

SAP experience

Roles and Responsibilities: (most important skills higlighted)

Develop and implement solutions using Kafka.

Administer and improve use of Kafka across the organization including Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Streams, and custom implementations.

Work with multiple teams to ensure best use of Kafka and data-safe event streaming.

Understand and apply event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka best practices. Enable development teams to do the same.

Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modeling, and ensuring data integrity.

Experience with streaming data from SAP (especially S4 HANA) is a plus

Continuous learning to be a Confluent/Kafka subject matter expert.

Work with Kafka API's (e.g. metadata, metrics, admin) to provide pro-active insights and automation.

Perform regular reviews of performance data to ensure efficiency and resiliency.

Contribute regularly to event-driven patterns, best practices, and guidance.

Review feature release and change logs for Kafka, and other related components to ensure best use of these systems across the organization.

Work with lead to ensure all teams are aware of technology changes and impact.

Acquire a deep understanding of source and sink connector technical details for a variety of platforms including PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and others as required