Kafka Architect

Below is the complete JD received from customer .
Skills:
Subject matter expert in Streaming and Event Driven Architecture for Applications with a focus on application integration.
Hands-on experience with Confluent cloud, building stream processors (KStreams), self-managed connectors through CFK, enforcing schema validation / registry, Flink & KSQL
Experience in implementing event driven integrations with SaaS applications (like Salesforce, Ariba), Databases (Oracle, SQL Server), COTS (SAP, Oracle Apps etc), web based applications & legacy systems. Implementation of Kafka for Digital Factory (I4.0) is preferred.
Understanding of data mesh principles, ability to design decoupled integrations
Cloud platform experience (Azure is preferred)
CI/CD experience using Terraform deployments
Technical Skills - Confluent Cloud, Kafka architecture , SQL, Java, Python, Azure Cloud Architecture

Job Responsibilities:

Drive architecture and design discussions with product teams to provide the best solution for their requirements.
Provide guidance, Kafka expertise, troubleshoot issues, provide best practices to product teams for implementing event driven integration
Function as a mentor/evangelist to the product teams to build champions and provide technical guidance
Identify areas of opportunity for continued automation and provide roadmaps for continuous improvement, with focus towards enabling users through template driven development, accelerators, foundational frameworks
POCs for new design patterns or connectivity with a new applications.