Eventing / Messaging / Cloud-Native Integration Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Eventing / Messaging / Cloud-Native Integration Engineer

Location: Primarily Remote; Chicagoland Candidates Preferred
Position Type: 6-Month Contract with Possible Extension
Compensation: $55–$65 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications

Overview

TalentFish is casting a line for a senior Eventing / Messaging / Cloud-Native Integration Engineer to support a large-scale cloud modernization and acquisition-integration initiative.

This consultant will assess event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, messaging, streaming, serverless technologies, and cloud-native managed-service dependencies that may affect application onboarding to a target cloud platform.

The role requires someone who can go beyond identifying technologies in use. This engineer must understand how applications behave across producers, consumers, queues, topics, streams, triggers, retries, dead-letter handling, ordering, replay, fanout, idempotency, and failure scenarios.

The selected consultant will determine whether current integrations can be retained through a controlled exception, bridged temporarily, replaced with an equivalent target-platform service, redesigned using a different integration pattern, or migrated only through deeper application refactoring.

What You’ll Do

• Assess messaging, streaming, serverless, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native managed-service dependencies.
• Analyze representative producers, consumers, queues, topics, streams, partitions, and event triggers.
• Evaluate retry behavior, dead-letter handling, replay, message ordering, routing, fanout, and failure scenarios.
• Review delivery guarantees, acknowledgment behavior, visibility models, consumer-group behavior, and deduplication requirements.
• Assess idempotency, schema evolution, backpressure, event sequencing, and processing resilience.
• Determine whether current dependencies should be:
• • Retained through a controlled exception
  • Temporarily bridged
  • Replaced with an equivalent target-platform service
  • Redesigned using a different integration pattern
  • Migrated through application refactoring
• Identify differences in semantics between current and proposed technologies.
• Evaluate impacts across producers, consumers, application teams, platform services, security controls, deployment processes, testing, and operational support.
• Assess observability, monitoring, alerting, tracing, failure recovery, and support requirements.
• Perform bounded, non-production technical validation when needed.
• Identify migration dependencies, sequencing constraints, platform backlog items, operational concerns, and technical risks.
• Estimate the effort required across application, platform, security, testing, deployment, and support teams.
• Produce concise engineering assessment documentation covering:
• • Semantic compatibility
  • Architecture implications
  • Application-refactoring requirements
  • Migration sequencing
  • Platform and security dependencies
  • Operational risks
  • Cutover and rollback considerations
  • Future engineering effort
• Collaborate with application teams, integration architects, cloud platform owners, security teams, and operations stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Senior-level experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, messaging platforms, and cloud-native integrations.
• Strong hands-on experience with technologies such as:
• • Amazon SQS
  • Amazon SNS
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Apache Kafka
  • Amazon MSK
  • AWS Lambda
  • Lambda event source mappings
• Experience with integrations, asynchronous APIs, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Familiarity with serverless and bring-your-own-application deployment models.
• Deep understanding of:
• • At-most-once delivery
  • At-least-once delivery
  • Effectively-once processing patterns
  • Topic and partition design
  • Routing and fanout
  • Consumer groups
  • Message ordering
  • Deduplication
  • Visibility timeouts
  • Acknowledgment models
  • Retry and backoff strategies
  • Dead-letter queues
  • Event replay
  • Idempotency
  • Schema evolution
  • Backpressure
  • Event-trigger behavior
• Strong understanding of observability and operational support for event-driven and asynchronous systems.
• Ability to distinguish a straightforward technology substitution from a change to application behavior or processing semantics.
• Experience evaluating platform, security, networking, deployment, and operational dependencies.
• Ability to estimate engineering effort across multiple migration approaches.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to document complex architectural findings clearly and concisely.

Additional Requirements

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
• Primarily remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicagoland area.
• All offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check, which may include reference checks, education verification, employment verification, drug testing, criminal-record checks, and any required certification or compliance verification.

Compensation and Benefits

The expected compensation range for this position is $55–$65 per hour , depending on experience and qualifications.

This role also qualifies for benefits that may include:

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off

TalentFish is an employee-owned company pioneering a new realm in talent acquisition. We are redefining IT staffing by evolving AI, video screening, and our unique platform. TalentFish focuses on providing the best employee, consultant, and client experience possible. At TalentFish we are an Equal Opportunity Employer; we embrace and encourage diversity.

Company Description

TalentFish is an employee-owned company pioneering a new realm in talent acquisition. We are redefining IT staffing by evolving AI, video screening, and our unique platform. TalentFish focuses on providing the best employee, consultant, and client experience possible. At TalentFish we are an Equal Opportunity Employer; we embrace and encourage diversity.