IBM Confluence Kafka Engineer

• Total Experience:
• 5+ years in Enterprise Integration, Middleware, or API Architecture.
• IBM Integration Platforms:
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and running integration flows on IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE / IIB)
• OR

IBM webMethods Integration

• (webMethods Integration Server, Enterprise Gateway, or webMethods.io).
• Event Streaming:
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building streaming pipelines with Confluent Kafka or Apache Kafka.
• Modernization Track Record:
• Proven background in refactoring legacy synchronous patterns (SOAP, RPC, File Batch, IBM MQ) into asynchronous event-driven flows using IBM integration tools connected to Kafka.

Requirements

• Core Technical Requirements
• A. IBM Integration Capabilities (App Connect or webMethods)
• Deep experience authoring, deploying, and maintaining integrations using
• IBM App Connect (ESQL, Java, Compute nodes, REST/SOAP API flows)
• OR

IBM webMethods

• (IS Flow Services, Java Services, Designer, webMethods.io).
• Ability to map complex data formats (JSON, XML, Copybooks, Flat Files) into enterprise canonical models.
• Experience leveraging native IBM nodes/adapters to produce and consume directly to/from Apache Kafka / Confluent topics.

B. Confluent Kafka & Streaming Capabilities

• Strong grasp of Kafka architecture: Topic partitioning, Producer/Consumer tuning, Consumer Groups, and Offset Management.
• Hands-on implementation of Confluent Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf) for enterprise data governance and backward/forward schema compatibility.
• Experience with Kafka Connect framework for streaming data between databases, IBM MQ, and Kafka topics.

Knowledge of stream transformation using

Kafka Streams or ksqlDB

C. Infrastructure, DevOps & Security

Deployment experience on Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, or IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)

Experience automating integration deployments using

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and Terraform/Ansible

Solid understanding of security protocols across hybrid clouds: mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth2, API Key Management, and RBAC/ACLs.

Benefits

At InnovationTeam, we strive for excellence in everything we do. We offer a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where innovation and creativity are encouraged. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development, and believe in recognizing and rewarding our employees for their contributions.