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SENIOR DATA STREAMING ENGINEER

Empresent Global, LLCWoodlawn, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 7, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Woodlawn, MD, United States
Posted
4 days ago

Job Description

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments
  • Expert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry
  • Strong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions
  • Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks
  • Strong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices
  • Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus
  • Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practices
  • Experience with POAM-aligned remediation workflows
  • Hands-on experience designing secure microservices
  • Experience with Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER
  • Strong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster health
  • Experience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks
  • Ability to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
  • Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organization
  • Federal government or regulated-environment experience
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Experience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platforms
  • Confluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka security
  • Large-scale streaming workloads and streaming architecture
  • Schema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies
  • Building shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming components
  • Advanced 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_…

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