Senior Confluent Consultant

Location: Austin, TX
Position Type: 1099/C2C contract based data integration consultant
Duration: 6-month project with opportunity to extend

About Us:

Merrick Synergy provides AI and Data Engineering professional services to enterprise and mid-market customers. Our team is made up of like minded independent consultants who place excellent design, flawless implementation, and customer value delivery over corporate politics and fiefdoms.

We're life long learners who love to deliver bleeding edge cloud native solutions. We all have very seasoned and tenured IT careers, but still crave learning the next greatest software architecture and putting our hands on the keyboard to implement it. We're fearless first movers that create reference architectures where none may exist. We're confident that our experience, skills, & perpetual curiosity will deliver the solutions that everyone else only talks or blogs about.

Job Summary:

We are looking for technical consulting architects for a 6-month project in Austin, TX.  This role requires on-site work three days a week and two remote. We cannot consider candidates who are willing to relocate. Applicants must also have US citizenship or a green card. 

You will play a crucial role in helping our customer develop event-driven architectures and applications. Expertise with Apache Flink and Kafka Streams, on the Confluent Platform, are must-haves. Hands-on knowledge with Spark, Hadoop, and Storm, as well as relational and NoSQL databases, is also required. 

In this role, you will design and develop event-driven architecture and applications, applying best practices. You will also deliver training and enablement to the customer as part of the acceptance process.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the customer in defining their transition from legacy architecture and applications to a real-time, event-driven business model

• Implement an event-driven infrastructure from the ground up, or modernize existing infrastructure as customer needs dictate

• Deliver customer training and enablement on the new infrastructure

• Document the new architecture, list reference materials, and develop run books for customer use

Qualifications:

• US Citizen or Green Card Holder

• Austin, TX resident to work at the customer site three days, remote  two days, every week. Normal business hours are expected.

• An individual contributor focused on solving challenging technical problems, with a proven track record of working with minimal daily supervision

• 3+ years of experience with Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, the Confluent platform and/or other stream processing solutions

• 3+ years of experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems

• 3+ years of experience configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting Red Hat and Debian-based Linux distributions

• Ability to design and implement microservice architectures

• Ability to adapt quickly to complementary technologies

Nice To Haves:

• Proficiency in Java, C, C++, Python, Rust

• Experience developing event-driven applications