Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist) in London

Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist)

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £550 per day

London based - hybrid working - 3 days a week on site

We are seeking an experienced Streaming / Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist) to own and evolve our event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming platform. You will be responsible for designing, building and optimising scalable event-driven solutions that enable reliable, high-performance data movement across distributed systems.

Working closely with engineering, architecture and platform teams, you will help establish best practices for event modelling, stream processing and system integration within a modern microservices environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of event-driven architecture across the organisation.
• Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines using Kafka technologies.
• Develop stream processing applications using Kafka Streams and ksqlDB.
• Implement robust event models that support scalable, loosely coupled systems.
• Optimise streaming performance, resilience and fault tolerance.
• Integrate streaming platforms with cloud-native and microservices-based applications.
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality streaming solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices around event-driven design, data contracts and messaging patterns.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and continuously improve streaming infrastructure and applications.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with:
• Confluent Kafka
• Kafka Streams
• ksqlDB
• Proven track record delivering real-time data pipelines and event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of:
• Event-driven architecture
• Data flow design
• Event modelling
• System decoupling
• Experience integrating streaming platforms within microservices ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, messaging patterns and asynchronous processing.
• Experience designing scalable, resilient and highly available streaming solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Schema Registry, Kafka Connect and stream governance.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring and logging within distributed systems.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.