Compunnel Inc

Software Engineer Lead Contractor Strongsville, OH, Pittsburgh, PA End Client: PNC Bank 8 to 10 Years experience Technical Skills Kafka Expert Level o Kafka architecture (brokers, partitions, topics, producers, consumers) o Kafka Streams (KStreams, KTables) o Topic configurations (retention, replication, partitioning) o Exactly-once vs at-least-once processing o Schema management (Avro, Protobuf, JSON) o Kafka Connect o Testing using TopologyTestDriver & TestContainers Java / J2EE Expert Level Apache basics Strong knowledge of: o Spring Boot o Spring Cloud o Hibernate o REST APIs Experience building REST APIs using Spring Boot Spring Data / Spring Data JPA Unit testing with JUnit / Spock / Mockito SQL & NoSQL databases CI/CD using Jenkins Oracle & MSSQL query writing Git & automated testing tools Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift (OCP) FLEX / NICE TO HAVE Apache Flink or KSQLDB GitHub Actions / GitLab CI Event-driven architecture RabbitMQ ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) OpenTelemetry Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, JMX) Dynatrace SAFE Agile / Scrum exposure Kafka or Java Certifications Roles & Responsibilities Lead development of microservices-based applications Design and implement Kafka Streams solutions Develop REST APIs using Spring Boot Integrate Kafka with external systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) Implement CI/CD pipelines Ensure high-quality code with automated testing Provide technical leadership and mentorship Troubleshoot performance and distributed processing issues Collaborate with business and offshore teams Soft Skills Strong problem-solving ability Leadership & mentoring capability Excellent verbal & written communication Ability to work independently Education &Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)