Middleware/Kafka Engineer - Atlanta, United States - Meridian Consulting Solutions
Description
Meridian Technologies is currently seeking a Middleware/Kafka Engineer for the IPPS-A Army Military Pay (AMP) program to implement, configure and maintain Oracle ESB and Confluent Kafka. The client requires a five day work week.
What you'll get to do:
Implement, configure and maintain Oracle ESB and Confluent Kafka.
Support the design of web services to support PeopleSoft HCM implementation, as well as the design, development and implementation of the messaging and stream processing architectures built on the Confluent version of Kafka.
Will lead and participate in Agile SAFe meetings providing the necessary definition and guidance to ensure ESB is correctly installed, configured, tested, and deployed, and the Kafka solution supports the program's data exchange requirements.
Develop technical solutions to business challenges and functional requirements
Create, update and edit functional and technical design specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements
Interpret requirements, perform complex analyses and present options and recommendations to obtain desired results
Support and independently own tasks related to design and development of messaging and stream processing tasks
Conduct Unit testing and resolve issues found in testing
Meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities
Provide overall technical and logistical support to the program
Skills Required:
The successful candidate will be fluent with a variety of data models from business systems planning and data requirements planning
The candidate must understand in detail the integration of Oracle ESB with the components of PeopleSoft Integration Broker, MQ and OAM/OID
The candidate must have recent, hands-on experience with the setting up and configuration of Kafka brokers, Kafka Connector, Zookeeper, and schema registry
Experience with messaging and stream processing architectures built on the Confluent version of Kafka
Recent experience with pipelining, xQuery, and xPath
Recent experience with KSQL
Knowledge and experience with clustering and high availability Kafka configurations
Experience configuring Kafka Security
Experience setting up monitoring and management for Kafka
Knowledge and experience with installation, configuration and maintenance of Oracle Enterprise Service Bus environments on NIPR and SIPR
Setup and integration of ESB with various components of the system like PeopleSoft Integration Broker, MQ and OAM/OID
Ability to collaborate with ETL development team to define message queues, nodes, binding rules and routings
Ability to work closely with DBAs, ETL/ PeopleSoft Dev teams, and Security Team to improve performance and data quality
Ability to work in an Agile SAFe team
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Mathematics
10-12 years of experience in the Information Technology field with an emphasis on large-scale ERP systems
3+ years of experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka
5+ years of experience with Data Integrations
6+ years of strong experience with enterprise service bus technologies, to include design, installation, configuration and testing; Oracle ESB/SOA/MFT preferred
Proven track record of successful deployment of ESBs from requirements gathering through implementation
Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities
Active or Interim DoD Secret clearance
Must have SAFe Certified Agilist certification within 90 days of start date
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
Experience with Ab Initio ETL Platform (plans, graphs, psets, meta-programming, etc.)
Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner and success working in Agile Product Teams (APTs)
Experience as a data modeler and/or data architect
Experience with DoDAF Artifacts
Experience with existing Army Pay and Human Resources data and systems?
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with a strong focus on customer service and solution ownership
Active DoD Secret Clearance
SAFe Agilist certified