Role - Kafka EDF
Experience- 8+ Years
Location- Chennai/Hyderabad/Bangalore
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Kafka EDF (Event-Driven Framework) Engineer to design, develop, and support high-throughput, real-time streaming platforms. The role focuses on building scalable event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and integrating enterprise systems for business-critical use cases at HCLTech.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement event-driven architectures (EDA) using Kafka
- Develop and manage Kafka producers, consumers, topics, and schemas
- Build real-time data streaming pipelines and integrations
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of Kafka platforms
- Perform monitoring, tuning, and performance optimization
- Handle production issues (L3 support) and conduct root cause analysis
- Work closely with microservices, data engineering, and cloud teams
- Implement security, governance, and data compliance standards
- Support CI/CD, release, and deployment processes
Required Skills
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka and Event-Driven Frameworks (EDF)
- Expertise in Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, replication, offsets)
- Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
- Experience with Schema Registry (Avro/JSON/Protobuf)
- Proficiency in Java / Scala / Python
- Experience integrating Kafka with microservices
- Understanding of distributed systems and messaging patterns
Good to Have
- Experience with Confluent Platform
- Exposure to cloud-based Kafka (GCP / AWS / Azure)
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- BFSI / Telecom / Retail domain experience
