Senior Kafka Lead Engineer - Remote Enterprise Integrations

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for a remote role, with priority to candidates in North Carolina, Arizona and Texas. The role focuses on Kafka-based event-driven integrations within the Enterprise Architecture team, designing scalable enterprise solutions aligned with business goals.

The candidate will lead development, guide teams, and ensure secure, scalable data pipelines using Confluent Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years in software development and maintenance.
• Or high school diploma/GED with 10+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka in multi-data-center and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain Confluent Kafka clusters across data centers and cloud environments.
• Implement authorization, authentication and schema governance.
• Build real-time data pipelines using Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams and KSQL/FlinkSQL.
• Monitor system metrics and address performance issues to ensure high availability.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, consult with project teams, and align initiatives with enterprise standards.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Kafka

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams

Schema Registry

DevOps

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Openshift

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Openshift

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for a remote role, with priority to candidates in North Carolina, Arizona and Texas. The role focuses on Kafka-based event-driven integrations within the Enterprise Architecture team, designing scalable enterprise solutions aligned with business goals.

The candidate will lead development, guide teams, and ensure secure, scalable data pipelines using Confluent Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.