Confluent Kafka Platform Architect | REMOTE
Ashish Singh
Job Description
Job Title: Confluent Kafka Platform Architect
Location:- REMOTE OKLAHOMA/TEXAS CANDIDATES HIGHLY PREFERRED
Duration :: 6+ Months
Experience : 13+ Years
Client :- Banking/Financial Services
Note:- Need Local strong candidate
Need them to be very strong in Kafka and able to do knowledge transfer
Job Description:
Description of job duties As a Confluent Kafka Platform Architect, you will design and govern the enterprise event streaming platform that powers real-time data movement across the enterprise. You will define architecture patterns, operational guardrails, and integration strategies for Confluent Kafka on cloud infrastructure, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient event-driven capabilities for analytics, AI, and transactional systems.
Key Responsibilities:
• Platform Architecture & Design
o Define and evolve the enterprise Kafka architecture, including cluster sizing, partitioning strategies, replication, and high availability.
o Establish patterns for producers, consumers, and stream processing applications using Confluent components (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, kSQLDB).
o Design multi-region disaster recovery and failover strategies aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Platform Governance & Standards
o Implement naming conventions, topic lifecycle policies, and schema evolution standards.
o Define RBAC and security guardrails leveraging Confluent Control Center, ACLs, and encryption (TLS, SASL).
oEnsure compliance with internal governance and regulatory frameworks.
• Performance & Observability
o Set up monitoring and alerting for throughput, latency, consumer lag, and broker health using Confluent Control Center and integrated observability tools.
o Optimize performance for large-scale streaming workloads, tune configurations for reliability and cost efficiency.
• Integration & Enablement
o Architect connectors for core banking systems, cloud data lakes, and analytics platforms.
o Provide reusable patterns and onboarding guides for application teams; enable self-service provisioning where appropriate.
o Collaborate with InfoSec, Cloud Engineering, and Data Governance teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards.
•Innovation & Roadmap
o Evaluate emerging Confluent features and event streaming trends; recommend adoption strategies.
oDrive automation for provisioning, scaling, and patching using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
Experience required:
Qualifications Must-Have
• 8+ years in enterprise data architecture or platform engineering roles.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, schema management (Avro/Protobuf), and stream processing.
•Expertise in security (TLS, SASL, RBAC), performance tuning, and observability for Kafka clusters.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka operations.
Preferred
• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud Kafka deployments.
• Knowledge of financial services compliance and governance requirements.
• Exposure to automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines for Kafka infrastructure.
Thanks and Regards,
Ashish Kumar
Senior Technical Recruiter | Sibitalent Corp