Job Description Job Details:
Role: Senior Data Streaming Engineer
Location: Woodlawn, MD (On-site) Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Interview: In-Person
Job Summary:
The role requires a senior technical leader who can guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, schema governance, microservices, and secure streaming delivery. Senior Data Streaming Engineer.
Key Requirements:
Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles 5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments Expert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry Strong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks Strong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practices Experience with POAM-aligned remediation workflows Hands-on experience designing secure microservices Experience with Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER Strong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster health Experience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks Ability to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills Preferred Experience:
Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organization Federal government or regulated-environment experience Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift Experience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platforms Confluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka security Large-scale streaming workloads and streaming architecture Schema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies Building shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming components Advanced distributed-system debugging and production incident triage Submission Details:
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