What are the responsibilities and job description for the Confluent Kafka Streaming Engineer position at Theron Partners Inc.?
Job Title: Data Engineer (Streaming & Integration)
Location: Omaha, NE
Duration: 6 months
Schedule: Onsite
Job Description:
Client is seeking one Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of streaming and enterprise data pipelines. This role owns technical direction, makes architectural trade-offs, and works directly with onsite clients in the US.
This is a builder owner role. You will write code, review designs, debug production issues, and set engineering standards.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8 years of hands-on data engineering experience
- Exceptional SQL skills (complex analytics, performance tuning)
- Strong expertise in Python, Java, or .NET (C#)
(at least one OOP language is mandatory) - Deep experience with Confluent Kafka (architecture, partitioning, delivery semantics)
- Hands-on streaming experience with:
- Apache Flink (preferred) or
- Apache Spark Structured Streaming
- Strong understanding of:
- ETL / ELT patterns
- MPP processing concepts
- Data modeling and orchestration
- Experience with SQL Server