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Kafka Solution Architect

Skysoft IncAK🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 12, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career as a Kafka Solution Architect at Skysoft Inc, designing cutting-edge, event-driven solutions from anywhere in the U.S. This fully remote role offers significant opportunity to leverage your deep expertise in Apache Kafka and distributed systems, making it ideal for experienced architects passionate about building scalable, enterprise-grade messaging platforms. Embrace this chance to shape the future of integration and apply today!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
AK, United States
Posted
20 hours ago
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Job Description

Role: Kafka Solution Architect
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Experience: 15+ Years
Job Description
Client is seeking an experienced Kafka Solution Architect to design and build highly scalable, event-driven enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Apache Kafka, API design and integration, distributed systems, and microservices architecture. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on development experience, and the ability to architect enterprise-grade messaging and integration solutions.
Required Skills
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
  • Expert-level experience with Apache Kafka, including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform.
  • Strong expertise in REST API design, development, integration, and API security.
  • Hands-on experience designing event-driven and microservices architectures.
  • Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise integration frameworks.
  • Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or MuleSoft.
  • Strong knowledge of asynchronous messaging, event streaming, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
  • Strong understanding of messaging patterns, fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
  • Experience implementing OAuth2, JWT, SSL/TLS, and API authentication/authorization.
  • Strong SQL skills with experience in relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
  • Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
  • Architect enterprise-scale event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka.
  • Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance REST APIs.
  • Develop Kafka producers, consumers, streams, and event-processing applications.
  • Define API standards, governance, versioning, and best practices across enterprise platforms.
  • Collaborate with application, cloud, and DevOps teams to build highly available distributed systems.
  • Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, resiliency, and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot production issues involving Kafka, APIs, and distributed applications.
  • Conduct architecture reviews, mentor development teams, and establish technical best practices.
  • Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Preferred Skills
  • Confluent Kafka Certification.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services.
  • Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger.
  • Knowledge of GraphQL and AsyncAPI.
  • Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

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