- The purpose of this role is to provide technology expertise to design and deliver the services across platform following best practices and coach junior engineers as and when required
- The role is focused on best practices, technology, and delivering business value through high quality software
- Delivering solutions that meet customer s requirements, including necessary design consultations, documentation, automated testing, deployments and in-life support and driving business performance, efficiency and continuous improvement within the teamIntegration streaming platform enables communication between multiple Enterprise application systems via a publish once/subscribe multiple event streams
- The purpose of this role is to manage the pan-BT central event platform (using on Confluent Kafka) proliferate BT s event driven architecture, deliver standards refinement, enforcement, operational strategy, data flow pattern governance, ensure platform stability and support across various teams operating in the federated model
- The job drives technology excellence and innovation in ways of working
- The job really understands the needs of various systems requiring central event communication, designs solution if needed or supports onboarding onto the central event platform, ensuring standards and optimal performance
- This role is responsible for maintaining the standards across all technical, solution, process and people aspects, spanning systems, technologies and squads including Simplify
What you'll be doing
Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities to enhance team s ways of working, operations and processes.
Resolves technical functional/non-functional issues raised by the team and/or customer and manages escalations as required.
Delivering software solutions that provide business value and meet customer requirements, including necessary designs, documentation, automated testing, deployment and in-life support.
Driving reuse of technology to ensure efficiency and improve velocity.
Delivering organisational health outcomes across the team, including coaching and team development.
Managing key stakeholders to enable successful software design and delivery.
Delivering the appropriate level of production and in-life release support to ensure production issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
Skills and Experience Required:
- Stakeholder Management: Develop close relationships with customers, vendors, suppliers and BT employees at a senior level, confidently present information and facilitate negotiates to enable successful software designs and delivery.
- Problem Solving: Ability to identify the root cause of the in life problem and aaplying expertise and efforts to quickly find a solution. Ability to drive the delivery of the problem solution end to end and provide support by working closely with stake holders and delivery team. Resolving production issues to fix service P1-4 issues. Documeting the issue problem statement and its fix in the centralised repository for quick reference and faster delivery in case similar issue pops up. Apply best practices to solve the generalised issues
- Change Management: Ability to adapt and contribute towards any change or enhancement in the processes or technical practices in a dynamic and challenging environment in order to improve the service quality and business value.
- Software Development Concepts: Understands and experienced with the use of a wide range of programming concepts and is also aware of and has applied a range of algorithms.
- Technology skills : Java, SpringBoot, Microservices, Docker, Kafka Admin, Kafka development using Kafka libraries, Process Automation, CI/CD, Terraform.
Following MANDATORY prior experience is prefererred where candidate has -
- Background in Distributed Systems and Application development using Java, Springboot, REST APIs.
- Understanding of Data Architecture, Streaming, Kafka, No-Sql DBs.
- Experience in setting up Kafka environment on Test and Production if required and troubleshoot issues to build a working environment.
- Experience in Kafka Administrative aspects like Creating and manging Kafka Cluster, Kafka Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Kafka SQL, Kafka Producers and Consumers, Kafka Topics, Schema rehistry, Load balancing techniques, Security, Monitoring and others
- Integrating Kafka with multiple Producers and Consumers, Streaming APIs
- Practical project experience on Agile and DevOps working model for Automated Build, Deployments and Monitoring techniques
- Prior experience on design and development of Kafka projects.
- Self-learner & keep yourself abreast of the business, technology & IT practice changes
- Interest in running POCs for new technologies, analysing considerations, establishing standards and propagating to wider teams
- Good to have experience with AWS and GCP and Confluent Cloud.
