KAFKA, No SQL DB:
Extensive experience designing and developing streaming pipelines, data platform to handle high volume data processing, distributed system for both batch and realtime
Robust Expertise in–KAFKA and Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive, YARN, HDFS), Scala, Cassandra, Linux (on prem), CI-CD (Jenkins, Github), Obs (Dynatrace).
Design and implement real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka for onprem systems
Develop producers and consumers for high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems
Implement Kafka-based event-driven architectures
Leads : Role is 70% of time in Design, Architect, Coding and 30% of time in team mentoring, guidance, coordination
Responsible for both development and solid expertise to debug and fix any post production issues for their developed code
Interview ask : To write optimal code (in Kafka/SQL)



in timeboxed period for scenario given (covering data quality, transformation) without AI tool and code to be accurate. To resolve code issue for a bug introduced in sample code
Experience in scripting, ETL (Pandas, Pola.rs, PySpark, Ibis), SQL, and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB)
Understanding of system architecture concepts: distributed systems, caching, replication, data modeling
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working in Agile environments; familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure) is a plus
Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. NiFi, Griffin, Hamilton, Airflow)
Functional experience of Retail Banking, capital markets, securities processing will be advantage

📌 Kafka + No Sql Db Bengaluru (India)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 India