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Lead Kafka Engineer

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raymondjames logoRaymondjames · Saint Petersburg, Florida - United States
Full-timeHybrid2d ago
ApacheAWSJavaKafkaLessLinux
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Responsibilities

  • Proven experience working with Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka.
  • Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, components, and tuning.
  • Experience with Confluent Schema Registry.
  • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) on AWS.
  • Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Proficiency in Linux Virtual Machines for supporting Kafka Connect
  • Some experience in programming languages such as Java or Python.
  • Some experience with Spark Streaming and Apache Flink is a desirable skill.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Familiar with SRE concepts which includes evaluating and implementing monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch and other job, log or dashboard concepts for customer support and application health checks.
  • 10 years of relevant development or engineering experience or combination of education, training and experience.
  • Financial Services Industry knowledge is a plus.
  • Education
  • Bachelor's: Business Administration, Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelor's: Computer Engineering
  • Work Experience
  • General Experience - 6 to 10 years
  • Certifications
  • Travel
  • Less than 25%
  • Workstyle
  • Hybrid
  • At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
  • We expect our associates at all levels to:
  • Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
  • Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
  • Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
  • Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
  • Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm
  • #LI-SA1

Benefits

Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insurancePaid time offEquity / stock optionsPerformance bonusParental leave

Additional Information

Job Description Summary Develops and implements specialized code supporting the interfaces between an organization's business application systems and a data warehouse. Job Description This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: Expected to be in a Raymond James office location a minimum of 10-12 days a month. Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.


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