Barclays

Kafka Streaming Architect

Barclays
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$170k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement Kafka-based streaming applications and enterprise-scale real-time data solutions.
  • Build scalable, high-performance, low-latency data pipelines using Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar streaming technologies.
  • Design cloud-enabled workloads using appropriate placement strategies and capabilities such as elasticity, serverless computing, and containerization.
  • Incorporate security, resilience, risk, capacity, and cost considerations into solution architecture.
  • Support operational teams with fault finding and performance issue resolution.
  • Prepare architecture, privacy, security, and records-management governance artifacts.
  • Collaborate with architects, engineers, business stakeholders, and other specialists to deliver strategic outcomes.
  • Influence technical direction, contribute to policy and control improvements, and guide team members or lead collaborative assignments.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Kafka-based streaming applications in complex enterprise environments.
  • Established coding experience with Java and Python for high-performance, scalable solutions.
  • Deep experience building real-time data pipelines with Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and platform resilience.
  • Ability to collaborate with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes.
  • Experience with NoSQL and modern data platforms such as MongoDB or ClickHouse is highly valued.
  • Exposure to AI/ML system design, data-driven solution development, Spring Boot, and middleware-based architectures is highly valued.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical direction.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery models is valued.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Barclays’ New York, NY office.
  • Base salary range is $170,000 to $230,000, excluding other compensation and benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaClickHouseJavaMongoDBPythonSpring Boot

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Barclays

About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients, and communities. For further information about Barclays, please visit home.barclays.

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