# Kafka Platform Engineer

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Knutsford, Radbroke Hall
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer to help develop and enhance our enterprise streaming platforms that enable secure, reliable, and real-time data movement across Barclays.

As a Kafka Platform Engineer, you will work with modern cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale, helping to improve platform reliability, security, and automation.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, develop, and improve software using various engineering methodologies

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements and devise solution strategies

- Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing

- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations

- Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data

**Requirements**

- Designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale Confluent Kafka platforms

- Building secure, resilient, and highly available streaming solutions

- Applying distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and platform automation practices

- Developing and improving Kafka security capabilities

- Working with key Confluent Platform components

**Nice to Have**

- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka Streams, Flink, or Spark Streaming

- Experience working with cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes-based platforms

- Effective collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills

**What We Offer**

- Opportunity to work with modern technologies and contribute to solutions that deliver meaningful business impact

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

**About Us**

- Barclays is a global financial services organisation that provides a range of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions.

## Skills

### Required
- Confluent Kafka
- distributed systems
- event-driven architecture
- platform automation
- Kafka security

### Nice to have
- Kafka Streams
- Flink
- Spark Streaming
- cloud-native technologies
- Kubernetes

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