Senior Data Streaming Engineer

**Title: Senior Data Streaming Engineer** **Location:** Woodlawn, MD **Onsite:** 5 Days/Week **Rate:** $75/hr C2C **Interview:** In-Person **Key Requirements:** * Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles * 5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments * Expert-level proficiency with **Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry** * Strong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions * Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks * Strong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices * Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using **Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus** * Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practices * Experience with POAM-aligned remediation workflows * Hands-on experience designing secure microservices * Experience with Kafka security configurations including **SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER** * Strong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster health * Experience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks * Ability to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns * Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills **Preferred Experience:** * Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organization * Federal government or regulated-environment experience * Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift * Experience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platforms * Confluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka security * Large-scale streaming workloads and streaming architecture * Schema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies * Building shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming components * Advanced distributed-system debugging and production incident triage The role requires a senior technical leader who can guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, schema governance, microservices, and secure streaming delivery. Senior Data Streaming Engineer EOE