Realtime Platform Architect
About The Position
Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.Job Description• Architect and evolve real-time data platforms using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Pulsar, or similar.• Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and governance for real-time systems.• Define Kafka topic strategies, schema evolution, and stream processing patterns• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and performance• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and business teams to align solutions with strategic goals• Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the CoE• Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to platform evolution• Ensure platform reliability, observability, and performance at scale.• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities.• Lead design reviews, proof-of-concepts, and technical deep-dives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 12-15 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in real-time or streaming data platforms (Kafka preferred)
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, messaging systems, and stream processing frameworks.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code.
- Excellent communication and leadership
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve real-time data platforms using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Pulsar, or similar.
- Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and governance for real-time systems.
- Define Kafka topic strategies, schema evolution, and stream processing patterns
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and performance
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and business teams to align solutions with strategic goals
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the CoE
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to platform evolution
- Ensure platform reliability, observability, and performance at scale.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
- Lead design reviews, proof-of-concepts, and technical deep-dives.
Benefits
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
