Key Required Skills Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect, Python, Java and SpringBoot. Position Description • Lead and organize a team of Kafka administrators and developers, assign tasks, and facilitate weekly Kafka Technical Review meetings with the team. • Work alongside customer to determine expanded use of Kafka within the Agency. • Strategize within Leidos to set up opportunities to explore new technologies to use with Kafka. • Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform on Confluent Kafka. • Define strategy for streaming data to data warehouse, and integrating event-based architect with microservice based applications. • Establish Kafka best practices and standards for implementing the Kafka platform based on identified use cases and required integration patterns. • Mentor existing team members by imparting expert knowledge to build a high-performing team in our event-driven architecture. Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modelling and ensuring data integrity. • Provide software expertise in one or more of these areas: application integration, enterprise services, service-oriented architectures (SOA), security, business process management/business rules processing, data ingestion/data modeling. • Triage, investigate, advise in a hands-on capacity to resolve platform issues regardless of component. • Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience. Share up-to-date insights on the latest Kafka-based solutions, formulate creative approaches to address business challenges, present and host workshops with senior leaders and translate technical jargons into layman's language and vice-versa. • All other duties as assigned or directed. Detailed Skills Requirements FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master degree with 10 years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree. • 12+ years of experience with modern software development including systems/application analysis and design. • 7+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka and/or Apache Kafka). • 2+ years of combined experience with designing, architecting, and deploying to AWS cloud platform. • 1+ years of leading a technical team. FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills) These skills will help you succeed in this position: • Expert experience with Confluent Kafka with hands-on production experience, capacity planning, installation, administration / platform management, and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals. • Expert in Kafka cluster and application security. • Strong knowledge of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) • Expert Experience in data pipeline, data replication and/or performance optimization. • Kafka installation & partitioning on OpenShift or Kubernetes, topic management, HA & SLA architecture. • Strong knowledge and application of microservice design principles and best practices: distributed systems, bounded contexts, service-to-service integration patterns, resiliency, security, networking, and/or load balancing in large mission critical infrastructure. • Expert experience with Kafka Connect, KStreams, and KSQL, with the ability to know how to use effectively for different use cases. • Hands-on experience with scaling Kafka infrastructure including Broker, Connect, ZooKeeper, Schema Registry, and/or Control Center. • Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors. • Solid experience with data serialization using Avro and JSON and data compression techniques. • Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Flink, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and/or S3. • Basic knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, and/or Spring JPA). HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills) Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills: • Disaster recovery strategy • Domain Driven Design (DDD) • AWS cloud certifications. • Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production. • PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers. • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, CloudFormation / Terraform). • Solid experience with Spring Framework (Boot, Batch, Cloud, Security, and Data). • Solid knowledge with Java EE, Java generics, and concurrent programming. • Solid experience with automated unit testing, TDD, BDD, and associated technologies (Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and Karma/Jasmine). • Working knowledge of open-source visualization platform Grafana and open-source monitoring system Prometheus and uses with Kafka Education • Bachelor's Degree in with 12+ years of experience • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.