Data Engineer with Kafka

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Pittsburgh, PA
In-Office
Cloud • Information Technology • Consulting
The Role

Techstra is seeking an experienced Data Engineer with strong experience in Apache Kafka to join our growing data team. You’ll help build and scale our real-time data pipelines, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance across systems. This role is crucial in transforming how we ingest, process, and distribute data across the organization. 

From the day you join, you will hit the ground running surrounded by amazing people. Here is a look of some of the expectations and responsibilities for this position:  

Responsibilities 

  • Design, implement, and maintain robust data pipelines using Apache Kafka and related streaming technologies. 

  • Work with Kafka producers and consumers to enable real-time data ingestion and processing. 

  • Optimize Kafka topics, partitions, and consumer groups for performance and scalability. 

  • Integrate data from multiple sources (databases, APIs, cloud services) into the data platform. 

  • Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and analysts to build streaming solutions. 

  • Monitor and troubleshoot Kafka cluster performance, ensuring data integrity and reliability. 

  • Document architecture, workflows, and best practices. 

Requirements 

  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering or backend development. 

  • Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (e.g., Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB). 

  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala for integrating Kafka producers/consumers. 

  • Experience with stream processing tools like Apache Flink or Spark Streaming 

  • Solid understanding of data structures, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture. 

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and managed Kafka services (like Confluent Cloud or MSK). 

  • Experience with schema management 

At Techstra Solutions, we help top companies and brands achieve the business value of Digital and Talent Transformation. We believe there are three components in successful business transformation: Business Strategy, Technology and Talent. It is the coming together of these three disciplines that enable companies to take full advantage of opportunities. It differentiates us. Our approach is holistic and all encompassing. We consider the full picture as we guide our clients on this journey.  

We are experts in transformation, business strategy, technology, innovation, and human capital management. We deliver our expertise through client consulting, innovative staffing solutions and software development. From strategy through implementation, we are dedicated to bringing our clients world-class business and talent solutions that fit strategic requirements and most importantly, deliver results.  

 

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The Company
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA
16 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Techstra Solutions is a certified woman-owned consulting firm that provides strategy, technology and implementation support to large organizations undergoing digital and talent transformation. The rapid pace of technology innovation required to remain competitive, juxtaposed with the slow rate of change in many organizations, causes most to struggle.

To be successful companies must drive new ways of working including the use of technology/analytics and new skillsets (hard/soft) deep into their culture so that they are able to rapidly and continuously react to change. They must also apply new approaches that empower their employees, ensuring its sustainability.

At Techstra Solutions we focus on four key areas, otherwise known as the 4 A’s: Automation (Robotic Process Automation (RPA)/Intelligent Automation), Analytics (Reporting/Analytics/AI/ML), Application Modernization (Cloud, Mobility, etc), and Agile-based solutions (DevOps).

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