Lead Kafka Developer

Job Title: Lead Kafka Developer – Software Engineer Lead Location: Pittsburgh, PA Type: Contract Compensation: Contractor Work Model: Onsite – onsite Hours: 40.0 Responsibilities Design and develop Kafka-based streaming architectures and data pipelines. Manage Kafka cluster setup, configuration, tuning, monitoring, and upgrades. Define standards for topic design, schema management, security, and reliability. Collaborate with platform, application, and data engineering teams. Troubleshoot comple…