At Prolifics, we are currently implementing multiple solutions in Software Development, and we are looking to hire a talented Sr. Confluent Developer for our development center in India. This position would be based out of Hyderabad and is a permanent position.
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Job Title: Sr. Confluent Developer
Primary skills:Confluent Platform, Apache Kafka
Secondary skills:Experience working in large, complex enterprise environments with multiple integration and data platforms
Location: Hyderabad (Mindspace#12B)
Educational Qualification: B.Tech/BE/M.Tech/MCA/M.Sc
Experience: 8 to 12 yrs
Job Description:
Role Summary:
The Confluent Platform sr developer is responsible for defining, governing, and supporting the implementation of enterprise-scale event streaming solutions using the Confluent Platform. The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on technical involvement to ensure Kafka-based solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.
The lead works closely with stakeholders, platform teams, delivery partners, and engineering teams to drive successful adoption and implementation of event-driven architectures across the organization.
Experience Required:
8 - <12 years of overall IT experience with at least 6+ years of hands-on experience in Confluent Platform
Proven experience in enterprise-scale event streaming architecture, implementation, and governance
Experience with Flink for designing and supporting real-time stream processing, event enrichment, and analytics use cases on Kafka-based event streaming platforms.
Experience working in large, complex enterprise environments with multiple integration and data platforms
Experience with fully managed confluent platform
Key Responsibilities:
Define target-state architecture for confluent and Kafka-based event streaming solutions
Provide hands-on support for Kafka platform setup, configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
Establish and govern:
Topic design and naming standards
Data contracts and schemas (Avro / Schema Registry)
Event lifecycle and retention policies
Guide implementation of producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry integrations
Ensure alignment with enterprise integration, security, and cloud architecture standards
Provide guidance on high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resiliency
Review and approve solution designs, architecture artefacts, and implementation approaches
Support architecture reviews, technical workshops, and governance forums
Collaborate with application, cloud, DevOps, and integration teams for consistent platform adoption
Oversee partner and vendor implementations to ensure adherence to standards and best practices
Required Skills & Experience
Strong architectural and hands-on knowledge of:
Confluent Platform / Apache Kafka
Producers, consumers, partitions, replication, and offsets
Kafka cluster configuration and management
Experience with:
Schema Registry
Kafka Connect
REST Proxy and ksqlDB
Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and streaming patterns
Experience with Kafka deployments in cloud and/or Kubernetes environments
Hands-on troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
Strong stakeholder engagement, governance, and documentation skills
Experience working with delivery partners and systems integrators
Preferred Experience:
Multi-region or multi-cluster Kafka deployments
Integration with enterprise data and analytics platforms
Experience in regulated enterprise environments
Exposure to CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform automation
Confluent or Kafka-related certifications
About us:
Prolifics Corporation Limited is a Global Technology Solutions Provider with presence across North America (USA and Canada), Europe (UK and Germany), Middle East & Asia. In India, we have offshore development centers: 2 in Hyderabad & 1 in Pune.
For more than 40 years, Prolifics has transformed enterprises of all sizes including over 100 Fortune 1000 companies by solving their complex IT challenges. Our clients include Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies across a broad range of industries including Financial Services, Insurance, Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Retail. We rank consistently in Dream Companies to Work for and Dream Employer of the Year ranking from World HRD Congress, ranked 7 in 2019.
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