Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer - Enterprise EDA

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

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.