Tech Lead

Primary Skills: Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka, Kafka components

Secondary Skills: AWS cloud services, Java, SQL, Monitoring applications (Grafana, Prometheus)

Responsible for supporting technical delivery of a project.

Supports PM, Test Lead, works collaboratively with the Solution Architect, Business Owner, IT Ops, development parties.

Responsible for estimations (Right sizing and efforts).Responsible for the solution throughout the project.Responsible for the technical guidance of the delivery team ensuing standards are adhered to.Support SM in each Sprint Release with the Internal Team, Test teams, Technical and Business Stakeholders ensuring all scope and inputs are captured in detail.Ensure delivery is consistent with the agreed delivery model and standards.Manage escalations appropriately to avoid any impact on overall delivery.Follow the agreed IT Demand and Governance processes on Status Management, Risk Issue Management, Deliverables Management, Decision Management, Plan Management.Support PM in process adherence and metrics measurement.Analyse and evaluate detailed business and technical requirements Contribute ideas for making applications better and easier to useDevelop and perform system testing and fix defects identified during testing and re executes unit tests to validate resultsMay mentor others on coding standards and performs code reviews Kafka experience6+ years experience working on a project with Kafka in a production setting Experience working on projects implementing EDA (Event Driven Architecture)Preference for project that involved some form of CDC (change Data Capture)Java Tech lead and Senior Java Development experience (Spring Boot) 6+ years and In-depth knowledge of Kafka from a development perspective.Experience with stream processing.Aware of best practice and practical working experience with operations around: Partitions, Brokers, Producers/consumers, Transaction Processing, Clusters, Zookeeper, topics, and other key features.Ability to run unit testing using Kafka Topology Test DriverWorking experience in creating and maintain API apps.Working experience in Version upgrades and patches.Certification in Kafka will be advantage.Generic SkillsExperience with containers and familiar with Kubernetes.Experience working on a Cloud platform (preference AWS) Familiar with best practice around CI/CD Experience working in version systems (GIT, GITHUB, SVN, TFS)Experien