Kafka Platform Engineer

Join us as a Kafka Platform Engineer, to help develop and enhance the enterprise streaming platforms that enable secure, reliable and real-time data movement across Barclays. This role supports the delivery of scalable, resilient and secure platform solutions that underpin key business services and support innovation across the organisation. You will work with modern cloud-native technologies, distributed systems and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale, helping to improve platform reliability, security and automation. This is an opportunity to help shape the future direction of strategic streaming capabilities while contributing to solutions that deliver meaningful business impact.

 

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

• Designing, implementing and operating enterprise-scale Confluent Kafka platforms supporting business-critical workloads.
• Building secure, resilient and highly available streaming solutions, including multi-region and hybrid cloud environments.
• Applying distributed systems, event-driven architecture and platform automation practices, including Infrastructure as Code, to address engineering requirements across the platform.
• Developing and improving Kafka security capabilities, including RBAC, ACLs, OAuth, SSL/TLS and secrets protection solutions.
• Working with key Confluent Platform components, including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cluster Linking and ksqlDB.

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:

 

• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka Streams, Flink or Spark Streaming.
• Experience working with cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise environments.
• Effective collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work successfully across engineering, architecture, security and infrastructure teams.

 

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.