Senior Kafka Solutions Architect — Event-Driven & Microservices

Skysoft Incorporated; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Skysoft Incorporated is seeking an experienced Kafka Solution Architect to design and build highly scalable, event-driven enterprise solutions. The role requires deep expertise in Apache Kafka, API design and integration, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.

You will demonstrate strong technical leadership with hands-on development and enterprise-grade messaging solutions. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software engineering and solution architecture, plus hands-on

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Expert-level Apache Kafka experience including Streams, Connect, Schema Registry and Confluent Platform.
• Strong REST API design, development, integration and API security expertise.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Extensive Java, Spring Boot and enterprise integration framework expertise.
• Experience with API Gateway technologies (Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or MuleSoft).
• Knowledge of asynchronous messaging, event streaming and distributed systems.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Understanding of messaging patterns, fault tolerance, scalability and high availability.
• Experience implementing OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS and API authentication/authorization.
• Strong SQL skills; relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Strong communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable REST APIs.
• Develop Kafka producers, consumers, streams and event-processing apps.
• Define API standards, governance, versioning and best practices across platforms.
• Collaborate with applications, cloud and DevOps teams to build highly available distributed systems.
• Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, resiliency and scalability.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving Kafka, APIs and distributed apps.
• Conduct architecture reviews and mentor development teams.

Skills

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Confluent Platform

REST API design

API security

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

Java/Spring Boot

AWS Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Monitoring

Tools

Apigee

Kong

AWS API Gateway

MuleSoft

OpenAPI/Swagger

Terraform

Job description

Skysoft Incorporated is seeking an experienced Kafka Solution Architect to design and build highly scalable, event-driven enterprise solutions. The role requires deep expertise in Apache Kafka, API design and integration, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.

You will demonstrate strong technical leadership with hands-on development and enterprise-grade messaging solutions. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software engineering and solution architecture, plus hands-on