Lead Kafka Engineer

Raymond James • Saint Petersburg, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Develops and implements specialized code supporting the interfaces between an organization's business application systems and a data warehouse. Job Description This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: Expected to be in a Raymond James office location a minimum of 10-12 days a month. Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Requirements

• 10 years of relevant development or engineering experience or combination of education, training and experience.
• Bachelor’s: Business Administration, Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelor’s: Computer Engineering
• General Experience – 10 to 15 years

Nice To Haves

• Some experience in programming languages such as Java or Python.
• Some experience with Spark Streaming and Apache Flink is a desirable skill.
• Financial Services Industry knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Proven experience working with Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, components, and tuning.
• Experience with Confluent Schema Registry.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) on AWS.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
• Proficiency in Linux Virtual Machines for supporting Kafka Connect
• Familiar with SRE concepts which includes evaluating and implementing monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch and other job, log or dashboard concepts for customer support and application health checks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level