IBM Confluence Kafka Engineer

• Total Experience:5+ years in Enterprise Integration, Middleware, or API Architecture.
• IBM Integration Platforms:3+ years of hands-on experience designing and running integration flows onIBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE / IIB)ORIBM webMethods Integration(webMethods Integration Server, Enterprise Gateway, or webMethods.io).
• Event Streaming:3+ years of hands-on experience building streaming pipelines withConfluent Kafkaor Apache Kafka.
• Modernization Track Record:Proven background in refactoring legacy synchronous patterns (SOAP, RPC, File Batch, IBM MQ) into asynchronous event-driven flows using IBM integration tools connected to Kafka.

Requirements

Core Technical Requirements

A. IBM Integration Capabilities (App Connect or webMethods)

• Deep experience authoring, deploying, and maintaining integrations usingIBM App Connect(ESQL, Java, Compute nodes, REST/SOAP API flows)ORIBM webMethods(IS Flow Services, Java Services, Designer, webMethods.io).
• Ability to map complex data formats (JSON, XML, Copybooks, Flat Files) into enterprise canonical models.
• Experience leveraging native IBM nodes/adapters to produce and consume directly to/from Apache Kafka / Confluent topics.

B. Confluent Kafka & Streaming Capabilities

• Strong grasp of Kafka architecture: Topic partitioning, Producer/Consumer tuning, Consumer Groups, and Offset Management.
• Hands-on implementation ofConfluent Schema Registry(Avro/Protobuf) for enterprise data governance and backward/forward schema compatibility.
• Experience withKafka Connectframework for streaming data between databases, IBM MQ, and Kafka topics.
• Knowledge of stream transformation usingKafka StreamsorksqlDB.

C. Infrastructure, DevOps & Security

• Deployment experience onRed Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, orIBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I).
• Experience automating integration deployments usingCI/CD pipelines(Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) andTerraform/Ansible.
• Solid understanding of security protocols across hybrid clouds: mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth2, API Key Management, and RBAC/ACLs.

Benefits

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