ASAP: Kafka Engineer (f/m) - min. 6 Months
Basel
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Hands-on Kafka Engineer. International Monetary Institution
Interact and contribute within a dynamic environment
About Our Client
Financial Institution based in Basel.
Job Description
- You will join the Data and Analytics team who are responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the data and analytics platforms and systems.
- You will help tackle a range of complex software and data challenges, including big data, data warehousing, advanced analytics, business intelligence and data governance.
- You will help to implement, maintain and support shared data platforms and bespoke analytical systems exploiting cutting-edge technologies and modern software development practices.
- Design, implementation and maintenance of an enterprise installation of Kafka
- Participating in the creation and execution of data governance, including message design, schema validation, and versioning
- Working with developers from other business unit technical teams to assist them in implementing functional solutions using Kafka
- Supporting the establishment of a platform SLA, including defining non-functional requirements
- Working with networks, data center, and infrastructure teams to optimize hardware solutions for the installation of Kafka
- You will collaborate with various of stakeholders: expert economists, technologists, data scientists and statisticians - and counterparts in other international organizations and central banks.
- Help to modernize the data management infrastructure by: Building a new modern data warehouse and data lake architecture, by offering innovative data lab environment for self-service analytics and to enhance capabilities to support machine learning.
The Successful Applicant
- Bachelor's degree or above (ideally, IT-related or technical)
- Deep experience with software development or data engineering
- Profound experience in designing, implementing and maintaining Apache Kafka as part for Cloudera Data Platform distribution
- Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow, RunDeck,Nifi etc.
- Stream-processing systems: Kafka, Spark-Streaming, etc.
- Experience in designing and developing high-volume mission critical transactional data integration solutions
- Knowledge of message queuing, stream processing and highly scalable 'big data' data stores
- Building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
- Proven experience of designing middleware message governance, topic subscription and management, including schema validation and version compatibility
- Agile methodologies like Scrum
- Knowledge of Service-oriented architecture and experience in API creation and management technologies (REST, SOAP etc)
- Strong problem solving skills, own initiative and team-player skills
- Strong written and oral English communication skills, other languages are preferred
What's on Offer
If you want to be part of a global financial institution and add content, through your hands-on Kafka Engineer skills and flexible mindset, then we look forward to receiving your CV.
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