Senior Real-Time Data Streaming Engineer (Flink & Kafka)

Bank of America; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka. The role focuses on modernizing data integration patterns and enabling real-time analytics across ITSM and infrastructure domains.

The ideal candidate will lead complex data engineering projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement streaming-first architectures and Iceberg-based lakehouse tables.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with a strong focus on data engineering.
• 5+ years in data warehousing, data lakes, or MDM systems.
• Strong experience with Apache Flink (stream processing, event time, windowing, stateful processing).

Responsibilities

• Leads story refinement and delivery of requirements through the delivery lifecycle and assists team members in resolving technical complexities.
• Codes complex solutions to integrate, clean, transform, and control data, builds processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, data quality controls, dependency, and workload management, assembles complex data sets, and communicates required information for deployment.
• Leads documentation of system requirements, collaborates with development teams to understand data requirements and feasibility, and leverages architectural components to develop client requirements.
• Leads testing teams to develop test plans, contributes to existing test suites including integration, regression, and performance, analyzes test reports, identifies test issues and errors, and leads triage of underlying causes.
• Leads work efforts with technology partners and stakeholders to close gaps in data management standards adherence, negotiates paths forward by thinking outside the box to identify and communicate solutions to complex problems, and leverages knowledge of information systems, techniques, and processes.

Skills

Data engineering

Streaming data

Real-time pipelines

Mentoring

Tools

Apache Flink

Confluent Kafka

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to design and deliver real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink and Confluent Kafka. The role focuses on modernizing data integration patterns and enabling real-time analytics across ITSM and infrastructure domains.

The ideal candidate will lead complex data engineering projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement streaming-first architectures and Iceberg-based lakehouse tables.