Kafka Architect, Texas

Job Description

We are seeking a Kafka Architect with strong experience in Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) to design scalable, real-time data streaming solutions for retail and eCommerce platforms.

Key Skills:

Apache Kafka (Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Schema Registry)

EDA for retail use cases: inventory tracking, fraud detection, real-time promotions

Integration with ERP, CRM, OMS, WMS, POS systems, IoT, eCommerce

Cloud Kafka: AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs, GCP Pub/Sub

Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, SAGA patterns

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk

Security & Compliance: PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA

Preferred:

Confluent Kafka certification

Stream processing: Flink, Spark Streaming

Retail analytics and personalization engine experience