Threshold band: 8 RTH-Y Note: 1. This position requires the candidate to work from the office starting from day one. 2. Ensure that you perform basic validation and gauge the interest level of the candidate before uploading their profile to our system. 3. Candidate Band will be count as per their relevant experience. We will not entertain lesser experience profile for higher band. Mode of Interview: Face to Face (Mandatory). **JOB DESCRIPTION** Location: Work from client location mandatory(Belapur, Mumbai) Mandatory Skills: Kafka Admin, Cloudera, Nifi Yrs of exp: 6 to 8 yrs JD: Role Overview: Looking for a Kafka SME to design and support real-time data ingestion pipelines using Kafka within a Cloudera-based Lakehouse architecture. Key Responsibilities: Design Kafka topics, partitions, schema registry Implement producer-consumer apps using Spark Structured Streaming Set up Kafka Connect, monitoring, and alerts Ensure secure, scalable message delivery Skills Required: Deep understanding of Kafka internals and ecosystem Integration with Cloudera and NiFi Schema evolution and serialization (Avro, Parquet) Performance tuning and fault-tolerance - U2XM3Y