Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer — Kafka & AWS MSK Migration

NTT DATA North America; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 89,544,000 - 103,320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible spending or health savings

AD&D insurance

401k program

Employee assistance

Additional benefits

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Full Stack Java Engineer in Seattle to lead and implement migration of on-prem Kafka to AWS MSK. You will design and build Java/Spring Boot microservices and modern front-end components, collaborating with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on migration work, strong AWS/MSK expertise, and mentoring engineers while delivering high-availability systems. A Bachelor's degree is required, onsite in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with Java-based enterprise applications.
• 5+ years of Strong expertise in Java (8/11/17), Spring Boot, and RESTful API development.
• 5+ years of Deep experience with Apache Kafka and related components (Producers/Consumers, Streams, Connect, Schema Registry).
• 5+ years of Proven experience migrating workloads to AWS MSK (MSK Connect/Serverless).
• 5+ years of Hands-on experience with AWS services (IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, Secrets Manager).
• 5+ years of Experience building full-stack apps using React or Angular.
• 5+ years of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker & Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration of Kafka clusters to AWS MSK, including planning and production cutovers.
• Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka integration.
• Build full-stack apps using React or Angular where needed.
• Refactor Kafka producers/consumers for MSK, including IAM, TLS, networking security.
• Implement monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Develop migration strategies with validation, dual-read/dual-write, rollback planning.
• Collaborate with DevOps to provision infra via Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Ensure security with encryption, IAM, mTLS, SASL/SCRAM.
• Produce technical docs, migration runbooks, and operate procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers on Kafka and AWS best practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

AWS MSK

React/Angular

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Full Stack Java Engineer in Seattle to lead and implement migration of on-prem Kafka to AWS MSK. You will design and build Java/Spring Boot microservices and modern front-end components, collaborating with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on migration work, strong AWS/MSK expertise, and mentoring engineers while delivering high-availability systems. A Bachelor's degree is required, onsite in Seattle, WA.