Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist)

Streaming/Event-Driven Engineer (Kafka Specialist)6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to 550 per dayLondon 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 ResponsibilitiesOwn 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 using Kafka Streams and ksqlDB.Implement robust event models that support scalable, loosely coupled systems.Optimise streaming performance, resilience and fault tolerance.Integrate streaming platforms with cloud-native and microservices-based applications.Collaborate with software engineers, architects and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality streaming solutions.Promote engineering best practices around event-driven design, data contracts and messaging patterns.Monitor, troubleshoot and continuously improve streaming infrastructure and applications. ..... full job details .....