Senior Kafka Developer w/Java

Please Note:

It's 100% Onsite position.

Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD, 5 days a week

Key Required Skills:

Strong experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka (Preferred), Kafka Streams API, Java, REST API development, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Agile Development Practices

Position Description:

Design and develop applications using Kafka, Java, REST API and spring boot

Mentor Junior staff

Collaborate with product design and engineering teams to develop an understanding of needs.

Attend all Agile ceremonies.

Requirements

Skills Requirements:

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience

Hands on experience with Apache Kafka and confluent Kafka

10+ years of experience with programming and designing software with Java

8+ years of experience on an Agile development team, preferable Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

Required Skills

Strong design and development experience with Kafka and Kafka Stream Processing technologies.

Experience developing an event streaming pipeline, via Confluent Kafka, which includes a listener.

Extensive Design and Programming skills in Java and JEE technologies.

Strong experience working with RESTFUL API

Extensive development skills using latest Spring Boot and Spring Security Experience.

Experience architecting and deploying cloud-native applications onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar.

Experience identifying requirements, researching options, designing and implementing solutions at a leadership level on project work.

Experience with modern development software, tools, and methodologies; Jenkins, Git/BitBucket, Jira, Nexus, Maven, Jenkins, OpenShift, UrbanCode Deploy.

Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.

Excellent communication and written skills.

Experience with Web Services Technologies like JSON.

Desired Skills

Experience with the implementation of Section 508 standards for Web Applications.

Exposure to writing Technical White Papers and systems design documents.

Prior experience with federal or state governments IT projects.

Education:

Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.