Senior Kafka Architect & Real-Time Streaming Consultant

Tech Junction Ltd; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage IT invites a seasoned Kafka Consultant to own end-to-end event streaming architecture across Texas or New Jersey. You’ll design, implement, and optimize scalable Kafka clusters, pipelines, and fault-tolerant streaming solutions, leading cross-functional collaboration with data architects and engineers.

The role emphasizes security, low-latency processing, and high data delivery reliability, with a permanent full-time engagement and competitive enterprise compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Progressive professional hands‑on experience in distributed systems architecture and Apache Kafka stream processing.
• Strong, demonstrable operational expertise in Kafka cluster administration, tuning, and producer/consumer API development.
• Comprehensive working knowledge and practical hands‑on experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry.
• Solid practical grasp of microservices communication patterns, asynchronous messaging, and cloud-native deployments.
• Proven consulting experience advising enterprise clients on streaming architecture and data integration.
• Strong analytical problem‑solving skills and effective stakeholder communication capabilities.
• Mandatory legal work authorization and physical availability for professional operations in Texas or New Jersey.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, deploy, and optimize enterprise-grade Apache Kafka streaming clusters, brokers, and topics.
• Provide expert consulting advisory on event-driven architecture patterns, microservices messaging, and stream processing.
• Implement robust Kafka producers, consumers, Kafka Streams applications, and Kafka Connect data pipelines.
• Monitor cluster health, throughput, consumer lag, partition balancing, and storage utilization across environments.
• Collaborate proactively with client data architects, software engineering squads, and enterprise infrastructure teams.
• Troubleshoot complex streaming failures, serialization errors, network bottlenecks, and consumer offset issues.
• Ensure strict adherence to data security standards, encryption-in-transit protocols, and access control policies (ACLs).
• Maintain meticulous architecture blueprints, schema registry documentation, cluster runbooks, and client advisory reports.
• Participate actively in client workshops, technical discovery sessions, and architectural design reviews.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on real-time data streaming best practices across project teams.

Skills

Kafka

Distributed systems

Consulting

Microservices messaging

Cloud deployments

Education

BS/MS Computer Science

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Job description

Sage IT invites a seasoned Kafka Consultant to own end-to-end event streaming architecture across Texas or New Jersey. You’ll design, implement, and optimize scalable Kafka clusters, pipelines, and fault-tolerant streaming solutions, leading cross-functional collaboration with data architects and engineers.

The role emphasizes security, low-latency processing, and high data delivery reliability, with a permanent full-time engagement and competitive enterprise compensation.