Senior Kafka Platform Engineer: Secure, Scalable Streaming

Barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer to design, develop and improve enterprise streaming platforms enabling secure, real-time data movement across the organisation. You will work with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures to deliver scalable, reliable streaming solutions.

The role emphasizes security, resilience and automation, with collaboration across engineering, architecture, security and infrastructure teams to implement best practices

Qualifications

• Designing, implementing and improving enterprise-scale Confluent Kafka platforms across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.
• Applying distributed systems knowledge and event-driven architectures to deliver reliable streaming solutions.
• Developing secure and automated platform capabilities using Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Skills

Confluent Kafka

Multi-region deployment

Kafka Streams

Cross-functional collaboration

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

RBAC

OAuth

SSL/TLS

mTLS

Secrets management

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Platform resilience

Flink

Spark Streaming

Security practices

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Cluster Linking

ksqlDB

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

RBAC

ACLs

OAuth

SSL/TLS

mTLS

Secrets management

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer to design, develop and improve enterprise streaming platforms enabling secure, real-time data movement across the organisation. You will work with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures to deliver scalable, reliable streaming solutions.

The role emphasizes security, resilience and automation, with collaboration across engineering, architecture, security and infrastructure teams to implement best practices