Confluent Engineer

Job Title: Senior Engineer - Confluent

Location: London UK

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Handson experience in Confluent Platform Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to support the introduction and evolution of Intact enterprise streaming capabilities This role sits within the Integration function responsible for enabling real time data event driven architecture and high performance integrations across the organisation
The ideal candidate will contribute to the design development and scaling of Intact Confluent based streaming platform supporting teams across the organisation in adopting event driven approaches
This opportunity sits within a significant cloud modernisation programme leveraging Agile and DevOps practices to continuously deliver business value.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Deliver engineering tasks across the Confluent Streaming Platform including the design development testing and deployment of event driven services and data pipelines
• Develop Kafka topics schemas and streaming applications using Kafka, Kafka Connect Schema Registry and Flink
• Collaborate with architects and platform teams to shape the event streaming roadmap
• Provide subject matter expertise in distributed streaming and event driven architecture
• Review streaming applications produced by other engineers ensuring quality and best practices
• Troubleshoot production streaming issues and conduct root cause analysis
• Promote platform standards governance models and reusable patterns
• Collaborate with vendor teams and Confluent professional services
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions
• Customer Conduct Framework
• Understand how FCA Conduct Rules apply to this role and consistently demonstrate behaviours that support positive customer outcomes and safe data handling

Your Skills:

6 years of software engineering experience including 3 years hands on with Confluent Apache Kafka
• Experience designing and building distributed streaming applications using Confluent Platform components
• Strong understanding of event driven architecture concepts event streaming event sourcing Pub Sub stream processing
• Experience with AvroJSONProtobuf schema evolution and Schema Registry
• Integration experience with backend systems such as SQLNoSQL databases APIs and cloud data platforms
  Familiarity with API design data modelling and microservice integration patterns
• Proficient with Git Jira Azure DevOps Docker Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of AWS and Azure
• Strong understanding of clean code reusable component design and Agile DevOps practices
• Decision Making Authority
• Makes decisions on design and implementation of streaming components within agreed architecture and standards
• Provides expert guidance impacting platform reliability performance and integration quality
• Escalates risks issues and architectural concerns appropriately

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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