Job Title - Kafka Developer (Remote)

We are Cognizant Artificial Intelligence

Digital technologies, including analytics and AI, give companies a once-in-a-generation opportunity to perform orders of magnitude better than ever before. However, clients need new business models built from analyzing customers and business operations at every angle to really understand them.

With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies prototype, refine, validate and scale the most desirable products and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks

*You must be legally authorized to work in United States or Canada without the need of employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future *

Position Responsibilities:

• Overall10+ years of experience and minimum 5 years of experience in Kafka programming.

• Advanced working Kafka knowledge and experience working with variety of streaming sources and databases.

• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets using Kafka. Experience in Core Java/ OOPS.

• Experience in Confluent Kakfa components (Connect, Schema, Registry, KSQL, Control Center)

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.

• Strong project management and organizational skills.

• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

• Handling the team and wherever required chip in and code with the team.

• Must be able to handle end to end project flow and provide estimation as and when necessary

• Must be able to handle a team of 8-10 members and assign the work

• Must be able to communicate with business and sr. architects and pass the details to team for timely deliverables

Position Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant field

• 10+ years of success in consultative/complex deployment project, architecture, design, implementation and/or support of data and analytics solutions

• Hands on development Design and Develop applications and flows Kafka

• At least 4 years of strong hands-on experience in implementation of Kafka (Apache/Confluent).

• At least 4 years of development experience in building Kafka distributed messaging and integration ecosystem.

• Experience in optimization and tuning based on performance metrics.

• Experience with Big Data Technologies -Hadoop etc will be an added advantage.

• Good hands-on experience on Streaming with Kafka.

• Experience with Git and Bitbucket

• At least 4 years of experience in software development life cycle.

• At least 4 years of experience in Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.

• Setup best practices, Standards, Patterns Development and automate process for onboarding.

• Willing to work in application/production support

• Experience in Banking domain will be an added advantage

• Strong communication and Analytical skills

• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment

• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $130,000.00 - $150,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 13 2023

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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