What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kafka Solution Architect position at Skysoft Inc.?
Greetings from Skysoft
Role: Kafka Solution Architect
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Experience: 15 Years Must
Note: Only US Citizens & H1B'S for this role
Job Description
Client is seeking an experienced Kafka Solution Architect to design and build highly scalable, event-driven enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Apache Kafka, API design and integration, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on development experience, and the ability to architect enterprise-grade messaging and integration solutions.
Required Skills
- 10 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
- Expert-level experience with Apache Kafka, including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform.
- Strong expertise in REST API design, development, integration, and API security.
- Hands-on experience designing event-driven and microservices architectures.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise integration frameworks.
- Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or MuleSoft.
- Strong knowledge of asynchronous messaging, event streaming, and distributed systems.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Strong understanding of messaging patterns, fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
- Experience implementing OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS, and API authentication/authorization.
- Strong SQL skills with experience in relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Architect enterprise-scale event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance REST APIs.
- Develop Kafka producers, consumers, streams, and event-processing applications.
- Define API standards, governance, versioning, and best practices across enterprise platforms.
- Collaborate with application, cloud, and DevOps teams to build highly available distributed systems.
- Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, resiliency, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot production issues involving Kafka, APIs, and distributed applications.
- Conduct architecture reviews, mentor development teams, and establish technical best practices.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Preferred Skills
- Confluent Kafka Certification.
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Knowledge of GraphQL and AsyncAPI.
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).