Kafka Lead and App Support

Immediate need for a talented Kafka Lead and App Support. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / Newark, DE(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:24-47964

Pay Range: $65 - $70/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility includes Complex Application Maintenance, Defect Fixes and Application Support.
• Would be expected to understand the complete end-to-end architecture involving DB2, IBM IIDR, Kafka and SingleStore.
• Would be expected to understand the operating production environments, configurations.
• In addition to being an Individual Contributor, this candidate would operate as a technical / team lead guiding few more engineers in Application support work.
• As needed basis, would be Responsible for developing complex software to accomplish business goals.
• On any Development assignments, individual will follow these Guidelines.
• Ensure that software is meeting functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Responsible for writing code, Configuration, unit testing, and ensures the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust and well-tested interfaces.
• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Contribute to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance),analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause.
• Document and communicate required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality.
• Participate, contribute and can coach team members in the delivery/release (CI-CD) events. e.g. branching timelines, pull requests, issue triage, merge/conflict resolution, release notes.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Skills-Kafka, Kafka cluster, RDMS database/SQL/Stored Procedures.
• 10+ years Industry Experience
• Senior Kafka based development having Hands on experience working on Kafka cluster. Writing producer/consumer code.
• Knowledge about Kafka multi-region stretch cluster and optimal cluster configuration. Knowledge of distributed Kafka connect clusters and developing Kafka connectors with understanding of performance configuration.
• Confluent Certified Developer will be an added advantage.
• Strong Knowledge on any RDMS database/SQL/Stored Procedures etc.
• Experience with MemSQL, DB2, Oracle preferred
• Experience with IBM DataStage ETL Tooling.
• Working java knowledge to write code using eclipse or IntelliJ tools. Understanding of java coding standards and deployment process.
• Knowledge of Splunk and Dynatrace tool usage on logging and monitoring. Querying Splunk logs and dashboard creation for analysis.
• Linux/Unix usage with python or shell scripts knowledge for automation.
• Experience with Data Replication Tools like IBM IIDR is a plus.
• Experience with Agile development and tool set like Jira.
• Extensive experience with Data replication products like IBM IIDR.

Our client is a leading Banking and Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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