We are looking for an experienced Kafka CDC Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Debezium CDC, and Oracle. The candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting real-time Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines, enabling data movement from Oracle databases to Kafka and downstream platforms such as Databricks/Data Lakes.

The ideal candidate should have strong understanding of Kafka topics, source/destination connectivity, event/data handling, schema evolution, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

- Implement and configure Debezium CDC for capturing changes from Oracle 19c/21c logs and APIs.
- Configure Kafka Connect and Debezium connectors for Oracle-to-Kafka data pipelines.
- Design and configure Apache Kafka topics to capture and distribute database change events.
- Manage CDC event flow from Oracle tables → Debezium → Kafka topics → downstream systems.
- Configure and troubleshoot source and destination connections for Kafka-based data pipelines.
- Integrate Kafka CDC pipelines with Databricks, Data Lake, and other downstream data platforms.
- Handle schema evolution, data validation, data consistency, and transformation requirements.
- Monitor Kafka topics, connectors, consumer/producer activity, and CDC pipelines in production.
- Troubleshoot production incidents related to Kafka, Debezium, Kafka Connect, Oracle connectivity, offsets, lag, and data discrepancies.




- Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for production issues.
- Optimize Kafka and CDC pipeline performance, throughput, and reliability.
- Develop and maintain SQL/PLSQL and Shell scripts for data validation, automation, and operational activities.
- Work with Linux environments for deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Collaborate with application, database, cloud, and data engineering teams to ensure reliable end-to-end data flow.

Mandatory Skills
- 5–8 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering / Streaming / CDC.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
- Strong experience with Debezium CDC.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect.
- Experience implementing Oracle-to-Kafka CDC pipelines.
- Strong understanding of Kafka topics, partitions, offsets, producers, consumers, and event processing.
- Experience with Oracle 19c/21c.
- Strong SQL/PLSQL skills.
- Good experience with Linux and Shell Scripting.
- Experience in production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA.
- Robust understanding of source-to-target data flow and connectivity.
- Experience with data validation and schema evolution.

Preferred Skills

- Databricks / Data Lake
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Confluent Platform
- CI/CD
- Experience with Kafka monitoring and performance tuning.
- Experience integrating Kafka CDC with cloud-based data platforms.

Skills: data lake,oracle,debezium,kafka

📌 Kafka CDC Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Zorba AI
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