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Hello All,
Greetings from ZettaMine!!!
Job Role: Apache Kafka Architect
Years of Experience: Overall experience of 11 – 15 years, with at least 6 years of hands-on experience in Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Schema Registry, and Kafka Connect.
Location: Pan India
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner
Any certification in Azure Cloud and Kafka is preferred.
Role Overview:
The Kafka Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale real-time event streaming architectures using Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka. This role involves creating robust, scalable, and highly performant data pipelines and event-driven systems that support enterprise-grade workloads.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, cloud-native patterns, and architectural governance.
Key Responsibilities:
Architectural Design & Strategy:
- Design end-to-end Kafka-based event streaming architectures for high-throughput, low-latency environments
- Define architectural standards, best practices, reusable patterns, schemas, and governance models
- Enable Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) adoption across platforms and business units
- Develop data modeling standards for events (Avro/JSON schemas), serialization formats, and schema evolution strategies
- Implement enterprise-grade security (ACLs, RBAC, encryption, network segmentation, auditing, and compliance)
- Implement disaster recovery frameworks in a seamless manner
- Architect and oversee deployment of self-managed Kafka clusters
- Lead capacity planning, cluster sizing, replication, partitioning strategies, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Implement Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Spark streaming pipelines
- Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, Cloud, Data, and Application teams to drive Kafka architecture adoption
- Provide mentoring and technical leadership to engineering teams on Kafka patterns and anti-patterns
- Review solution architectures, ensure alignment with enterprise standards, and participate in architecture governance boards
Technical Expertise:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Schema Registry, and Kafka Connect
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, pub-sub messaging, stream processing, and distributed systems
- Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, or ksqlDB
- Strong understanding of DevOps and automation tools: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) for deploying Kafka or managed services
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Scala, Python, or Go
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
If you are interested kindly share your updated CV to aruna.m@zettmine.com or WhatsApp to 6302404863.
Thanks & Regards,
Aruna.M
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