Senior Consultant - Industry Consulting

Kafka Data Engineer

Req ID: 359506 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Kafka Data Engineer to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN).

JD for Kafka Data Engineer –

• Kafka-Strong expertise in Kafka (4-5 years), with hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available event-streaming platforms, including partitioning strategies, consumer group optimization, schema management, and performance tuning. 
• API-first data ingestion. Strong hands-on pulling data from REST/GraphQL APIs with auth (OAuth2, API keys), pagination, rate limits, retries/backoff, and webhooks; strong Python skills to normalize/enrich data and land it cleanly into S3 (schema, partitioning, Parquet).
• AWS data lake, end to end. Comfortable building/operating S3-based lakes with layered zones (raw → harmonized → conformed → modeled), Glue Data Catalog, IAM/Secrets Manager, VPC endpoints, encryption, lifecycle/versioning, and cost/perf best practices (file sizing, compaction).
• AWS Glue + PySpark expert. Designs and optimizes Glue jobs using PySpark/DynamicFrames, bookmarks for incremental loads, dependency packaging, robust error handling, logging/metrics, and unit tests; knows how to tune jobs for scale and cost.
• Airflow orchestration. Writes clean, parameterized, idempotent DAGs (sensors, SLAs, retries, alerts), manages dependencies across pipelines, and uses Git-based CI/CD to promote changes safely.
• Snowflake proficiency. Builds ELT models (staging/ODS/marts), tunes performance (warehouse sizing, clustering, micro-partitions, caching), uses Streams/Tasks/Snowpipe for CDC, and follows solid RBAC and data governance practices

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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