Kafka Platform Architect

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The Position

The Kafka Platform Architect is responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision across the Kafka Data Streaming Platform in accordance with the overall Informatics technology strategy and principles to help ensure it is fit for its intended purpose.  You ensure that the system is designed to run as expected, has built-in observability,  balances emergent design and takes a system view across the full value stream.

Your team:

You will work with the platform team, product managers, product owners and the business stakeholders to enable and guide the design and development of an integrated view of the business processes and associated business landscape for the purpose of identifying current and future opportunities for synergy, integration and knowledge sharing. You will align with the enterprise architects and other solution architects to realize the vision of the domain and promote and adopt architecture principles and technology guardrails. You are also responsible to work with the Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure delivery.

The opportunity:

• Providing strategic consultation to data streaming platform customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as using customer requirements in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies. 

• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and business execution improvements

• Facilitating stakeholder sessions with personnel across all disciplines in the company to identify and define requirements, assess business processes and evaluate technology solutions

• Conducting solution architecture research, PoCs, feasibility assessment and facilitating solution application selections in relation to data streaming.

• Formulating business and logical data and solution architectures comprising software, network, hardware and integration designs in consultation with the PMs and in accordance with the existing Roche technology landscape.

• Conducting impact assessments and mitigation plans

• Working closely with Enterprise Architects on defining long term architecture vision, integration patterns and review of technical portfolio.

• Creating and owning the Solution Architecture documentation

• Developing IT Strategy & Roadmap consistent with the overall strategic needs of the business division in relation to the Data Streaming integration pattern.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study

• Ideally 5+ Years of experience as solution/platform architect

• Proven track record of managing a Kafka platform including technical roadmap, latest trends, innovations and enterprise adoption

• Implementation expertise in data streaming technologies such as Kafka, Confluent Kafka, Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis and/or Cloudera Kafka

• Senior Expert-level knowledge and experience applying Event/Stream Driven Architecture patterns from design to at least one enterprise implementation including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity concepts

• Understanding of entire data lifecycle focused on data integration, data ingestion, data security, data privacy, and data analytics

• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services, particularly in building scalable and secure architectures.

• Strong interpersonal communication skills

• Excellent English both written and speech

What you get:

• Good and stable working environment with attractive compensation and rewards package (according to local regulations);

• Full time employment contract;

• Annual bonus payment based on performance;

• A dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences);

• Access to various internal and external training platforms (e.g. Linkedin Learning);

• Experienced and professional colleagues and workplace that supports innovation;

• Multiple  Savings Plans with Employer Match 

• Company’s emphasis on employees’ wellness and work-life balance ( (e.g. generous vacation days and OneRoche Wellness Days)

• Workplace flexibility policy;

• State of art working environment and facilities;

• And many more that the Talent Acquisition Partner will be happy to talk about!

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