Kafka Architect

Neshent Tech

McLean, VA

Posted On: Sep 22, 2025

Posted On: Sep 22, 2025

Job Overview

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

10 - 15 Years

Salary

$150,000 - $180,000 Per Year

Work Arrangement

On-Site

Travel Requirement

0%

Required Skills

  • Kafka architecture
  • systems architecture
  • Snowflake
  • middleware
  • financial
  • Confluent
Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Define and govern enterprise-wide Kafka architecture, design principles, and best practices.
  • Lead design and deployment of scalable, high-throughput, low-latency streaming platforms.
  • Architect and manage end-to-end data pipelines including producers, consumers, schema registries, and stream processing layers.
  • Ensure scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance of Kafka clusters deployed in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
  • Establish and enforce governance, monitoring, and security frameworks for Kafka ecosystems.
  • Collaborate with application teams to modernize systems into event-driven, microservices-based architectures.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to developers, engineers, and DevOps teams.
  • Work closely with enterprise architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business goals.
  • Lead large-scale migrations from legacy messaging platforms (IBM MQ, TIBCO) to Kafka-based solutions.

 

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 9+ years of experience in distributed systems architecture, with significant focus on Apache Kafka.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing Kafka at enterprise scale.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming best practices.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

 

Skills & Experience
  • Expertise with Apache Kafka, including Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud.
  • Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Hadoop.
  • Strong knowledge of messaging systems and migrating from legacy middleware (IBM MQ, TIBCO) to Kafka.
  • Familiarity with financial services, banking, or credit union domains is a strong plus.
  • Relevant certifications in Kafka, Confluent, or cloud platforms are preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with stream processing frameworks like Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, or Apache Spark.

Job ID: NT250297


Posted By

Abhishek

Resource Manager


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