Senior Data Streaming Engineer

Onsite: 5 Days/Week Interview: In-Person Key Requirements Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environmentsExpert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema RegistryStrong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutionsExperience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworksStrong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practicesExperience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and NexusExperience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practicesExperience with POAM-aligned remediation workflowsHands-on experience designing secure microservicesExperience with Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARERStrong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster healthExperience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecksAbility to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patternsStrong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills Preferred Experience Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organizationFederal government or regulated-environment experienceExperience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShiftExperience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platformsConfluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka securityLarge-scale streaming workloads and streaming architectureSchema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategiesBuilding shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming componentsAdvanced distributed-system debugging and production incident triage The role requires a senior technical leader who can guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, schema governance, microservices, and secure streaming delivery. Senior Data Streaming Engineer