Senior Confluent Kafka Lead

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Job Title: Senior Confluent Kafka Lead / Python Developer Location: Columbus, OH / Nashville, TN Work Type: Onsite Employment Type: Contract (C2C) Role Overview: The Confluent Kafka Lead / Python Developer is responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade event streaming solutions using Confluent Kafka while developing Python-based producers, consumers, and streaming applications. This role blends deep hands on development with technical leadership, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure real-time data flows across distributed systems. The position plays a key role in event-driven architecture (EDA), data platform modernization, and real-time analytics initiatives. Key Responsibilities: Kafka & Streaming Platform Leadership: - Lead the design and implementation of enterprise Kafka and Confluent Platform solutions (Kafka, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB). - Define and enforce topic design, partitioning, retention, and schema evolution standards. - Act as technical owner for Kafka clusters across dev, test, and production environments. - Drive best practices for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. Python Development (Producers & Consumers): - D...