IBM Confluence Kafka Engineer

About the role

InnovationTeam is hiring a full-time IBM Confluence Kafka Engineer in Riyadh. The role centres on building and modernising event-driven integration flows that connect IBM integration platforms to Confluent Kafka or Apache Kafka.

Required profile

• Total experience of 5+ years in enterprise integration, middleware or API architecture.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and running integration flows on IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE / IIB) or IBM webMethods Integration.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building streaming pipelines with Confluent Kafka or Apache Kafka.
• Proven track record of refactoring legacy synchronous patterns (SOAP, RPC, file batch, IBM MQ) into asynchronous event-driven flows using IBM integration tools connected to Kafka.

Required skills

• IBM integration: deep experience with IBM App Connect (ESQL, Java, compute nodes, REST/SOAP flows) or webMethods (IS Flow Services, Java Services, Designer, webMethods.io), mapping JSON, XML, copybooks and flat files to canonical models, and producing/consuming directly to/from Kafka topics.
• Kafka: topic partitioning, producer/consumer tuning, consumer groups and offset management; Confluent Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf); Kafka Connect; Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.
• Infrastructure and DevOps: Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes or IBM Cloud Pak for Integration; CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or ArgoCD; Terraform and Ansible.
• Security: mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth2, API key management and RBAC/ACLs.

What we offer

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment that encourages innovation and creativity.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Recognition and rewards for employee contributions.