Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist)

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £550 per day

London based - hybrid working - 3 days a week on site

We are seeking an experienced Streaming / Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist) to own and evolve our event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming platform. You will be responsible for designing, building and optimising scalable event-driven solutions that enable reliable, high-performance data movement across distributed systems.

Working closely with engineering, architecture and platform teams, you will help establish best practices for event modelling, stream processing and system integration within a modern microservices environment.

Key Responsibilities

Own the design and implementation of event-driven architecture across the organisation.
Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines using Kafka technologies.
Develop stream processing applications usi...