Confluent Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Confluent Platform, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to support the introduction and evolution of Intact enterprise streaming capabilities. This role sits within the Integration function responsible for enabling real-time data, event-driven architecture and high-performance integrations across the organisation. The ideal candidate will contribute to the design, development and scaling of Intact Confluent-based streaming platform, supporting teams across the organisation in adopting event-driven approaches. This opportunity sits within a significant cloud modernisation programme leveraging Agile and DevOps practices to continuously deliver business value.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Deliver engineering tasks across the Confluent Streaming Platform including the design, development, testing and deployment of event-driven services and data pipelines.
• Develop Kafka topics schemas and streaming applications using Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and Flink.
• Collaborate with architects and platform teams to shape the event streaming roadmap.
• Provide subject matter expertise in distributed streaming and event-driven architecture.
• Review streaming applications produced by other engineers, ensuring quality and best practices.
• Troubleshoot production streaming issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Promote platform standards, governance models and reusable patterns.
• Collaborate with vendor teams and Confluent professional services.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions.
• Understand and adhere to the Customer Conduct Framework and FCA conduct rules, applying appropriate behaviours for positive customer outcomes and safe data handling.

Your Skills:

• 6 years of software engineering experience including 3 years hands-on with Confluent Apache Kafka.
• Experience designing and building distributed streaming applications using Confluent Platform components.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture concepts, event streaming, event sourcing, Pub/Sub, and stream processing.
• Experience with Avro, JSON, Protobuf schema evolution and Schema Registry.
• Integration experience with backend systems such as SQL/NoSQL databases, APIs and cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with API design, data modelling and microservice integration patterns.
• Proficient with Git, Jira, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of AWS and Azure.
• Strong understanding of clean code, reusable component design and Agile DevOps practices.

Decision Making Authority: Makes decisions on design and implementation of streaming components within agreed architecture and standards; provides expert guidance impacting platform reliability, performance and integration quality; escalates risks, issues and architectural concerns appropriately.

We are a Disability Confident Employer: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you): You would be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. We have trained Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s learning-for-life mindset, with training and development opportunities, thinktanks, hackathons, and access to courses and external certifications.

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, recognised for 13 consecutive years by Ethisphere. Ethical business choices are central to our culture.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable and inclusive future is a tough but rewarding aim. Capgemini offers opportunities to learn, collaborate, and contribute to transforming leading businesses with technology.

About Capgemini: Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. With nearly 60 years of heritage, we are a diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions across strategy, technology, design, engineering and operations, with 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.