Kafka Developer

About the Job: This full-time position for a Kafka Developer is located on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is part of the company, a leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization.

About Us: The company has partnered with many of the world’s largest businesses for over 50 years. Our consulting-led, cognitive-powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions is delivered through our unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model. The company is part of a large multinational business group, employing over 616,171 of the world’s best-trained consultants across 157 nationalities in 53 countries.

Job Description: - In-depth experience in Kafka architecture, including brokers, topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and replication.

• Sound knowledge of Kafka integration patterns and best practices for integration with various data sources.
• Experience with streaming data processing frameworks like Kafka Streams or Apache Flink.
• Design, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters in a production environment to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Knowledge of Kafka's distributed nature, fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand data processing requirements and design Kafka solutions that meet their needs.
• Optimize Kafka configurations and performance for efficient resource utilization and low latency data processing.
• Provide guidance and best practices to engineering teams on Kafka usage, data modeling, and integration patterns.
• Work closely with operations teams to monitor Kafka clusters, troubleshoot issues, and perform capacity planning.
• Stay updated with the latest Kafka features, enhancements, and best practices, and evaluate their applicability to the environment.
• Good exposure in setting up DR platform – Active & Passive.

Application Deadline: 31-Nov-2025