Requirements

• Strong presentation and communication skills with a proven track record of influencing engineering organisations
• Strong engineering background with experience implementing and owning event streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with stream technologies, ideally Kafka
• Experience designing and implementing stream processing applications with Flink
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS)
• Experience with Kubernetes (self-hosted or cloud-based)
• Experience with SQL databases
• Experience working with Docker, container deployment and management
• Experience describing infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar) and designing/implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent programming skills in at least one of Java or Python

What You'll Be Doing

• Work with stream processing technologies (Kafka and Flink) to build a large-scale, continuously available event streaming platform
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence across the organisation, building strong relationships with engineers and managers
• Build tooling (modules, SDKs, DSLs) and documentation to enable easy adoption of the streaming platform
• Implement infrastructure to enable end users to build, host, monitor, and deploy their own streaming applications
• Provide consultancy across the technology organisation to drive platform adoption and unlock event-driven use cases
• Translate requirements and architecture/design initiatives into actionable plans
• Provide hands-on support for event-based systems including incident triage and root cause analysis

Nice to Haves

• Experience with the company's specific tech stack (though eagerness to learn is valued)

Perks and Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection
• Culture of real ownership, fewer blockers, and impactful work from day one
• Opportunities to grow and take on meaningful challenges in a supportive team environment
• Inclusive environment that supports diverse backgrounds and identities
• Support for accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process and working environment