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Senior Kafka Developer @ INSCALE Portugal

Description

Company Profile

INSCALE is a European offshore development company with offices based in Denmark, Malaysia, Portugal, Ukraine and Macedonia. We establish permanent development teams for European and Australian companies with ongoing development of software applications. Each team works as an integrated part of the customer's organization. We offer our employees an opportunity to work on exciting projects and learn the western development procedures and culture. We have an informal Scandinavian management style where you will have autonomy and responsibility allowing you to develop your skills and grow your value as an IT professional.

We greatly value what our employees contribute to INSCALE, and always strive to reward our employees with challenging work and competitive environment. We are more than 500 employees representing numerous nationalities, which makes our work environment internationally oriented, diverse and encourages collaboration internally and regionally.

For more information, see https://www.inscale.net

 

Client Profile

Our vision is to be the most trusted business-to-business distributor of heavy materials in Northern Europe. We take responsibility for the entire value chain in our industry by providing the best terms possible for our customers and suppliers.

 

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Develop, maintain, and govern the STARK Kafka platform (Confluent Cloud), including performance, access models and cost models;
  • Develop, maintain, and govern the patterns and standards for our data pipelines and services in the STARK Kafka platform (CC), including the docker setup for those services;
  • Develop, maintain, and govern the CDC patterns and tools, which integrate STARK source systems and the Kafka platform (CC);
  • Collaborate with the Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads to establish the most effective way of processing data in an event-driven architecture;
  • Support establishing the practices and ways of working in a data mesh architecture in STARK;
  • Implement solutions and services within our stream and batch processing pipelines.

Main challenges:

  • Very ambitious project. Data platform is also both Stark’s Analytics and Integration platform;
  • Many projects will rely on this integration platform, making it the central point for all STARK’s data usage;
  • This role will impact the overall Athene project. The person hired for this role has the possibility to influence all architecture;
  • Be able to define standards and expectations on Kafka.

Technologies and languages used in role:

  • Kafka (Confluent Cloud);
  • Stream processing technologies (e.g. Kafka Streams);
  • Precisely CDC / Qlik Replicator / Debezium or other, similar CDC tools;
  • Docker/K8S;
  • Azure cloud.

 

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills:

  • + 3 years of experience with Kafka;
  • Experience with stream processing technologies.

 

Good-to-have:

  • Experience with Precisely CDC, Qlik Replicator, or other, similar CDC tools;
  • Experience with AKS/Docker;
  • Experience with working in a software development environment with many dependencies towards other teams and stakeholders;
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps (or similar) and Git;
  • Experience with cloud development practices, ideally on Azure.

Soft Skills Requirements:

  • Creative Problem solver and negotiator;
  • You have a flexible and organized work style;
  • You have experience working on an international scale with a variety of cultures.

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to communicate professionally in English.

 

Education

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Sc/BA degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline OR relevant years of experience in required skills.

 

Remarks

Stark vision is to be the most trusted business-to-business distributor of heavy materials in Northern Europe. We take responsibility for the entire value chain in our industry by providing the best terms possible for our customers and suppliers.

http://www.stark.dk

 

If you have this profile, send me your CV by email [email protected]