Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Join us as a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer, to help develop and enhance the enterprise streaming platforms that enable secure, reliable and real-time data movement across Barclays. In this role, you will contribute to scalable, resilient and secure platform solutions that support services used across the organisation. Working with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures, you will help improve streaming capabilities used by a wide range of teams and business areas. This is an opportunity for you to apply your technical skills at scale, helping to deliver solutions that improve reliability, security and automation while supporting the technology needs of Barclays.

 

To be successful as a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer, you must have the following essential skills:

 

• Designing, implementing and improving enterprise-scale Confluent Kafka platforms supporting enterprise workloads across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments, including multi-cluster, multi-region and highly available deployments.
• Applying distributed systems knowledge, event-driven architecture practices and Confluent Platform technologies, including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cluster Linking and ksqlDB, to deliver reliable, scalable and efficient streaming solutions.
• Developing secure and automated platform capabilities using Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling, alongside performance optimisation, capacity planning and Kafka security technologies, including RBAC, ACLs, OAuth, SSL/TLS, mTLS and secrets protection solutions.

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:

 

• Contributing to disaster recovery, business continuity and platform resilience solutions for streaming environments.
• Working with streaming technologies such as Kafka Streams, Flink or Spark Streaming and applying real-time data processing approaches to business requirements.
• Working collaboratively across engineering, architecture, security and infrastructure teams, sharing knowledge and contributing to platform improvements.

 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

 

This role will be based in Knutsford or Northampton