Platform Architect

Overview Platform Architect position based in New York City to design and implement messaging and database platforms for Credit IT applications. The role involves architecture of Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, and cloud infrastructure within a global organization. Responsibilities Design and architect messaging and database solutions driven by business requirements. Manage and operationalize Kafka components (zookeepers, brokers, control center, rest proxies, connect, replicators) across on-premises and public cloud environments. Evolve and optimize enterprise‑grade Kafka and MongoDB topologies to support growing organizational utilization. Address performance and scalability challenges for new or changing Kafka producers and consumers. Implement monitoring solutions for Kafka and MongoDB to proactively address messaging issues. Conduct multi‑environment capacity planning. Implement best practices for highly available deployments, including disaster recovery, backup, repartitioning, and zero‑outage upgrades. Design cloud architecture and implement Big Data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks. Tune performance on Big Data infrastructure. Develop automated infrastructure testing to ensure configuration changes do not impact applications. Develop self‑service tooling to enable provisioning and configuration of messaging and database platforms. Provision and instantiate messaging and database clusters across on‑premise and public cloud platforms. Enforce security standards in platform deployments. Provide expertise on evolving messaging and database capabilities. Assist application engineering teams to incorporate best practices into producer/consumer design. Improve operational processes and knowledge base for first‑class operations. Qualifications and Skills 10+ years of experience architecting and managing platform solutions. 4+ years of equivalent professional experience in messaging platform engineering, database platform engineering, or administration with troubleshooting and support for business applications. 2+ years of solid experience installing, configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting Confluent (preferably) or Apache Kafka and databases. Deep understanding of technical capabilities offered through messaging and database platforms. Hands‑on experience with automation‑centric scripting and tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet. 4+ years of hands‑on experience working on Windows server, Unix/Linux operating systems and shell/python scripting (CentOS, Redhat). Exposure to public cloud (Azure, AWS) and cloud technologies. #J-18808-Ljbffr