REMOTE Opportunity for a Sr. Kafka Implementation Engineer (W2 candidates only)
Posted 1 week ago by 1752904037
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The role of Kafka Implementation Engineer involves leading the setup and configuration of Kafka environments, providing technical guidance, and supporting global adoption of Kafka within enterprise systems. This position requires a blend of hands-on technical skills and mentorship capabilities, particularly in Confluent Kafka. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in implementing Kafka solutions and troubleshooting complex issues. The role is remote, allowing for collaboration with distributed teams globally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set up and configure new Kafka environments (Confluent or open source) from the ground up.
- Design and advise on Kafka messaging flows that support real-time alerting for banking operations.
- Guide internal teams on Kafka best practices, tuning, and operational readiness.
- Act as a senior technical advisor-consulting on use cases, architecture choices, and scaling strategies.
- Provide mentorship and hands-on support to engineering teams during Kafka adoption.
- Be the escalation point for Kafka-related issues across dev and production environments.
- Help drive Kafka enablement across Santander's global footprint, particularly in Spain.
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka: setup, development, tuning, and monitoring.
- Proven experience implementing Kafka in enterprise environments, including alerting and observability use cases.
- Clear understanding of Kafka internals: topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, retention, etc.
- Experience mentoring and advising engineers and architects on Kafka strategy and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams or ksqlDB is a plus.
- Able to work independently and collaborate across distributed global teams.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Kafka Implementation Engineer (Remote)
Location: Remote
Duration: Long-term Contract
Role Overview
Our client is looking for a Kafka Implementation Engineer with deep Confluent Kafka experience to lead Kafka setup, advise on architecture, and support global adoption. This is a technical leadership role, part hands-on, part mentorship, part advisory. You'll work directly with teams to stand up Kafka environments, troubleshoot complex issues, and serve as the go-to escalation point. This role is ideal for someone who knows how Kafka fits into enterprise systems and has helped clients move from zero to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Set up and configure new Kafka environments (Confluent or open source) from the ground up.
- Design and advise on Kafka messaging flows that support real-time alerting for banking operations.
- Guide internal teams on Kafka best practices, tuning, and operational readiness.
- Act as a senior technical advisor-consulting on use cases, architecture choices, and scaling strategies.
- Provide mentorship and hands-on support to engineering teams during Kafka adoption.
- Be the escalation point for Kafka-related issues across dev and production environments.
- Help drive Kafka enablement across Santander's global footprint, particularly in Spain.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka: setup, development, tuning, and monitoring.
- Proven experience implementing Kafka in enterprise environments, including alerting and observability use cases.
- Clear understanding of Kafka internals: topics, partitions, consumer groups, replication, retention, etc.
- Experience mentoring and advising engineers and architects on Kafka strategy and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams or ksqlDB is a plus.
- Able to work independently and collaborate across distributed global teams.
Nice to Have
- Banking or financial services experience.
- Experience working with international teams (Spain in particular).
- Familiarity with cloud-native Kafka deployments (e.g., Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).