Kafka Engineer

Capgemini; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Melbourne is seeking a Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable event-driven architectures. You will guide teams, architect enterprise-grade Kafka platforms, and collaborate with clients to meet strategic goals.

The role requires deep Confluent Kafka expertise, strong communication, and a proven track record in large-scale integrations across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and implementing technology solutions.
• 2+ years hands-on with the Confluent Kafka platform.
• Proven Kafka-based integration across complex enterprise environments.
• Experience integrating Kafka with databases, messaging systems, cloud data platforms, APIs.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Bachelor's degree in IT or CS.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Confluent Kafka clusters on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define and implement Confluent platform architectures and capacity planning.
• Design secure, high-performance, and scalable event-driven solutions using Kafka and related technologies.
• Develop and implement Kafka Streams applications and real-time data processing solutions.
• Integrate Confluent Kafka with databases, messaging platforms, cloud data stores, APIs, and enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members and project stakeholders.
• Support solution design reviews, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across integration projects.

Skills

10+ years exp

Confluent Kafka

RESTful APIs

EDA & distributed

Stakeholder comms

Leadership/mentoring

Cloud/Hybrid

Kafka Streams

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Confluent Platform

Kafka Streams

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you'd like, where you'll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you'll be able to reimagine what's possible. Join us and help the world's leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

Your RoleAt Capgemini, we help organizations transform and innovate through technology. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer to join our growing Cloud and Custom Applications Practice. In this role, you will design, develop, and implement robust, scalable Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) solutions that enable our clients to modernise and optimize their integration ecosystems.This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your deep expertise in the Confluent Platform and lead the delivery of innovative solutions across both greenfield and brownfield environments.As a Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering enterprise-scale event streaming platforms and integration solutions. You will provide technical leadership, work closely with customers and stakeholders, and guide project teams in implementing best-practice Kafka and event-driven solutions.You will be responsible for driving architecture decisions, ensuring platform scalability and security, and contributing to the successful delivery of business-critical integration initiatives.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Confluent Kafka clusters across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define and implement Confluent platform architectures and perform capacity planning to support enterprise workloads.
• Design and deliver secure, high-performance, and scalable event-driven solutions using Kafka and related technologies.
• Develop and implement Kafka Streams applications and real-time data processing solutions.
• Integrate Confluent Kafka with databases, messaging platforms, cloud data stores, APIs, and enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members and project stakeholders.
• Support solution design reviews, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across integration projects.

Your Profile

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience working with the Confluent Kafka platform.
• Proven experience delivering Kafka-based integration solutions across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience integrating Kafka with databases, messaging systems, cloud data platforms, integration tools, and API ecosystems.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, web services, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, influence architecture decisions, and mentor delivery teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

What you'll love about working here

You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for career growth.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.

At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.

We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called 'Celebrate'.

We don't just believe in inclusion we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive future for all campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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