Kafka Platform Engineer

American Express-posted 8 months ago

$133,500 - $241,900/Yr

Full-time • Senior

Columbus, OH

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The Kafka Platform Engineer designs, implements, and supports scalable, secure Kafka-based messaging pipelines that power real-time communication between critical systems such as credit, loan applications, and fraud services. This role focuses on improving the resiliency, reliability, and operations of our Kafka platform in a highly regulated financial environment. The Kafka Platform Engineer partners closely with engineering and platform teams to support the migration from on-prem to AWS and ensure seamless integration across systems.

Understand the software development lifecycle to support implementation of technology solutions that create and enhance applications in the mainframe space.
Inspect, analyze, and translate application functional and non-functional requirements into infrastructure technical design, application code, and configuration parameters.
Provide technical on-call support as defined within the team and role expectations.
Demonstrate proficiency in two or more programming languages (e.g. COBOL, Java) and develop or maintain at least three applications.
Work with Mainframe application development engineers to review and troubleshoot code in conjunction with Infrastructure, DB2 Database code reviews and other Code level activities.
Create and execute unit tests to ensure issues are proactively identified within the software development lifecycle.
Assist in analyzing code to identify causes of errors and defects.
Remediate known errors within development and production support contexts.
Review application code with application and MSP teams.
Estimate and size work based upon high-level requirements.
Continuously improve infrastructure for applications and processes with a focus on quality, efficiency, and user experience.
Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency.
Provide peer coaching and feedback formally and informally.
Manage and lead the relationship with our Managed Service Provider (MSP) who supports our Mainframe environments.
Handle mainframe SME initiatives such as review and approval of IPL/upgrade schedules, observability of Mainframe environments, high availability configuration and practices.
Mentor and coach MSP technology leads and other technical team members to assess needs, provide assistance, and resolve technical problems.
Lead and direct MSP technical leads and Application Development teams to identify improvement opportunities in resiliency, reliability and observability in the Mainframe environments.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field of study.
10+ years of experience working across areas of the mainframe environment.
5+ years of experience designing and deploying complex mainframe IT solutions.
Experience within a mainframe technical background using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, and related utilities.
Experience as a Senior Systems Programmer using z/OS, CICS, DB2, network, RACF, storage management, WebSphere, disk storage, and LPAR management.
Experience related to zMainframe disaster recovery and resiliency.
Experience with the creation of detailed documentation for daily operational functions, event management, and recoverability.
Experience with LPAR creation and management resulting in the elimination of single points of failure.
Experience with budget and forecast management.

3+ years of experience with Apache Kafka in highly regulated, mission-critical environments (preferably finance or banking).
Strong understanding of Kafka internals and distributed systems.
Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python for building Kafka producers, consumers, and stream processors.
Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry (Avro), and Kafka Streams.
Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with securing Kafka using Kerberos, SSL, ACLs, and integration with IAM systems.
Solid understanding of financial transaction systems, messaging standards, and data privacy regulations (e.g., SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR).

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits.
Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents.
401(k) plan with immediate enrollment.
11 paid holidays.
Flexible Time Off (FTO) program.
Paid Sick and Safe Time (PSST).
Annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.

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