Kafka Administrator
Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone.
At the heart of that mission are the people that work here—the dreamers, doers and difference-makers that call this place home. As part of that team, your work will showcase both your intelligence and your creativity as you tackle real problems and put your talents towards transforming transportation.
That’s because at Arity, we believe work and life shouldn’t be at odds with one another. After all, we know that your unique qualities give you a unique perspective. We don’t just want you to see yourself here. We want you to be yourself here.
The Engineering Team
Our engineers are fueled by a passion to impact the future of mobility. They push the boundaries of telematics and transportation tech by creating and supporting cutting-edge products. As part of an Agile team, they are armed with the freedom to innovate and the opportunity to see projects through from start to finish. Using a variety of languages and a top-notch technology stack, our engineers make critical advances in areas like sensor technology, enterprise engineering and platform development. Our team understands what it means to collaborate and communicate in an interconnected global team, all while having trust, transparency and empathy for the end user. Which is pretty cool, if you ask us.
The Role
The Kafka Administrator provides technical leadership from project inception through rollout, creating high-level technical requirements and designs to develop and support optimal IT solutions by applying knowledge of business processes and systems architecture.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for creation of roadmaps, leading design reviews, and performing analysis for one or more applications
- Identifies systems and technical constraints, potential technology risks, and document possible mitigation strategies for high complexity projects
- May guide the design deliverables of Systems Analysts and Developers
- Manages design reviews, application design impacts between concurrent releases, and technical walkthroughs
- Understands the technical details, integration, and functions of multiple applications, hardware, and/or software within a team
- Provides technical input and act as point-of-contact during architectural assessments for area applications
- For high complexity projects, validate code to designs and requirements
- Assists with detailed project estimating and milestone planning
- Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements
- Evaluates Proof of Concepts (POCs) and validate that code delivers design intent
- Ensures technical issues reported by Product Quality Services are resolved
- Evaluates root cause of issues and the resolutions
- Manages the scope and change control process and provide direction for area of expertise
- Coordinates various technology organization groups around required operations, environment, and desktop documentation. Manages development of the documentation
- Implements technical process improvements. Manages technical process and application process flows
- Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Maintains understanding of software industry and provide direction for future solutions
- If applicable, has used data flow diagrams to define work flow and data structure diagrams to refine data base needs in a simple system
- Participates in the overall planning and design of the specific core business systems
- Applies structured design tools independently to the design of moderately complex systems
Qualifications
- Expertise in Kafka administration for real-time streaming of data architectures to provide real-time analytics
- Abilities in understanding and monitoring appropriate key business indicators as well as what our competition is doing
- Proven track record of understanding business needs, spotting new opportunities, and analysis of their effects on technology and business requirements
- Ability to communicate clearlywith business partners regarding various organizational functions
- Capable of achieving accurate results in the handling of challenging problems
- Displays a high degree of professionalism in dealing with customers and management making sound recommendations in problem resolutions
- Experience in designing architecture. Involved in performance estimating activities with a team
- College degree with technical study or equivalent experience; 4-6 years of systems experience
Heads up: when you click “apply now” you’ll be directed to the Allstate careers site. You’re still looking at an Arity job, but because we were founded by Allstate, we share the same application system.