Finxact, a Fiserv Company, brings innovation to the core of banking and provides a next generation core platform. Our mission is to redefine core processing and our commitment is to be the best at what we do.
What does a successful Senior Kafka Solutions Architect do at Fiserv?
You will design and implement scalable and efficient Kafka solutions for our Finxact clients.
What you will do:
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and design Kafka-based solutions to meet their needs
- Create technical specifications and architecture designs for Kafka implementation projects
- Lead and participate in the development, testing, and deployment of Kafka solutions
- Optimize Kafka clusters to ensure high performance and scalability
- Conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting of Kafka implementations
- Stay up to date with the latest Kafka features and enhancements, and provide recommendations to the team
- Mentor and guide junior team members in Kafka best practices
What you will need to have:
- 6+ years of experience as a solutions architect in the Fintech industry
- 6+ years of experience with Kafka architecture and concepts: topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and brokers
- 6+ years of experience with Kafka ecosystem components: ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams
- 6+ years of experience with Kafka installation, configuration, cluster setup and monitoring and alerting tools, such as Confluent Control Center or Grafana.
- 6+ year of experience in Java or Scala
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education, work, and/or military experience
What would be great to have:
- Familiarity with cloud platforms: AWS or Azure
- Certifications or advance degree
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