Our client, a specialist Data Engineering Consultancy, are looking to hire a Senior or Lead Data Engineer with expertise in Kafka to join their growing IT team.

The role will suit an experienced candidate with at least 3-5 years experience as a Senior or Lead developer, who has a strong analytical mindset and is confident taking on complex problems. You will be involved in the design and build of exciting new data platforms and pipelines for high-profile Financial Services clients. Ideally candidates will have:

• Strong proven experience building patterns on Kafka and Confluent platforms
• Ability to design and implement a Kafka architecture projects
• Preferably experience with more than one programming language (Java, Scala or Go)
• Exposure to API Management Systems
• Any commercial experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes would be highly beneficial
• Micro-services architecture experience (preferably with Service Mesh)
• Demonstrable experience working on and delivering large scale development projects
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills