Are you the Kafka and Streaming Architecture guru we're looking for?
Randstad Digital is seeking an experienced Kafka & Streaming Expert Consultant to join our team and support a leading global client in Switzerland. If you thrive on implementing best practices, mentoring teams, and driving enterprise-scale data projects, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact!
The Challenge: Drive Technical Excellence
Reporting to the Head of Data Engineering and Operations, you will be the go-to subject matter expert for multiple IT projects with a heavy Apache Kafka component. Your core mission will be to elevate the client’s technical standards, upskill their internal teams, and ensure robust, high-performing streaming solutions.
What You'll Be Doing (Your Responsibilities)
Mentorship & Enablement: Act as a hands-on coach and mentor, upskilling internal staff through comprehensive documentation, structured training, and direct knowledge transfer.
Design Authority: Provide expertise in Kafka (preferably AWS MSK) design, configuration, and operations, ensuring systems are reliable and scalable.
Reliability Expert: Design and advise on critical reliability patterns, including retries, Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ), and idempotency within microservices and orchestration layers.
Standards & Review: Review and guide multiple project deliverables, ensuring strict alignment with enterprise standards and best practices for streaming architecture.
AWS Integration: Advise on advanced integration patterns, security, performance tuning, and monitoring within the AWS ecosystem.
Documentation: Establish and document the client's new technical standards for streaming and Kafka implementation.
What You'll Bring (Your Qualifications)
Deep Kafka Expertise: Strong, proven experience with Apache Kafka at an enterprise scale (MSK experience highly preferred).
Streaming Ecosystem Proficiency: Hands-on experience with tools like Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, or ksqlDB.
Microservices Reliability: Expert-level knowledge in reliability patterns and microservice orchestration using Kafka, including sagas, event sourcing, outbox patterns, DLQ, retries, and idempotency. Your ability to coach and guide teams in this area is crucial.
Architectural Knowledge: Good working knowledge of event-driven architectures and common streaming patterns.
Cloud & Observability: Familiarity with key AWS services (Networking, IAM, CloudWatch) and exposure to data governance and observability practices in streaming pipelines.
Communication: Exceptional communication and knowledge-sharing skills, with a track record of successfully mentoring technical teams.
Why Randstad Digital?
Randstad Digital offers you the chance to work with one of Switzerland's most prestigious global organisations. You'll gain access to challenging, high-impact projects, competitive compensation, and the support of a global leader in IT consulting and talent solutions.
This role can be remote or based onsite in Geneva and will be 3 days per week. Those candidates who wish to work onsite will need to be based in Switzerland or from the EU.
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