Messaging Engineer (Real-Time Data Exchange)

TEKISHUB CONSULTING SERVICES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Singapore is hiring a Messaging Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining messaging infrastructure for real-time data exchange across manufacturing and enterprise IT systems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree, at least 3 years of experience with messaging platforms, and strong skills in Apache Kafka and programming (Java, Scala, or Python). This role is crucial for ensuring reliable data communication and optimizing system performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience working with messaging or streaming platforms in production environments.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain messaging infrastructure supporting real-time factory data exchange.
• Deploy and manage distributed message brokers such as Apache Kafka.
• Ensure reliable delivery of critical events without data loss or duplication.

Skills

Hands-on experience with message-oriented middleware or streaming platforms

Proven experience deploying or managing Apache Kafka

Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or Python

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT

Tools

Apache Kafka

Job description

The Messaging Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining the messaging infrastructure that enables real-time data exchange across factory automation systems, MES platforms, and enterprise IT systems. This role focuses on high-throughput, low-latency streaming architectures to ensure reliable event-driven communication in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain messaging infrastructure supporting real-time factory data exchange
• Deploy and manage distributed message brokers such as Apache Kafka or MQTT-based systems
• Enable streaming communication between shop-floor equipment, sensors, MES, and enterprise platforms
• Define and govern message topics, channels, and data schemas for consistent event structures
• Optimize messaging pipelines for low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance
• Ensure reliable delivery of critical events without data loss or duplication
• Implement monitoring and alerting for messaging systems, tracking throughput, lag, and error rates
• Troubleshoot and resolve messaging pipeline issues quickly to maintain production stability
• Collaborate with application developers to integrate systems with the messaging layer
• Tune producer and consumer performance to meet factory throughput demands
• Maintain documentation for messaging architecture, configurations, and operational procedures

Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field
• Minimum 3 years of experience working with messaging or streaming platforms in production environments
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines

Must Have Skills

• Hands‑on experience with message-oriented middleware or streaming platforms
• Proven experience deploying or managing Apache Kafka (preferred) or similar systems
• Knowledge of topic design, partitioning, replication, and broker configuration
• Experience building pub/sub data pipelines with high throughput and fault tolerance
• Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or Python for producer/consumer development
• Understanding of messaging internals such as consumer groups, offsets, and retention policies

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with industrial or IoT messaging (MQTT, AMQP)
• Knowledge of data serialization and schema management (Avro, Protobuf, Schema Registry)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, cloud monitoring)
• Familiarity with event-driven microservices and factory IT landscapes (MES, databases, analytics)