Version 1 is delighted to announce the opening of an exciting new role within our Irish Enterprise leadership team for a Technical lead. Having experienced significant growth since inception, our Irish Digital, Cloud and Solution business is now preparing for the next phase of expansion, opening new opportunities for highly skilled business leaders to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies in Ireland.

Version 1 has celebrated over 25 years in the IT industry, and we continue to be trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 is a Microsoft Gold Partner, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and an Oracle Platform Partner; we are also an award-winning employer, and our employees are at the heart of Version 1.

• 2nd Best place to work in Ireland #GPTW2022
• UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle partner
• Consulting, implementation, and support services
• 3000+ strong, €140m revenue business

We are looking for a Technical Lead with Kafka experience to join our team. In this role the Technical Lead will be providing support to our client's team covering all aspects of managing and delivering various high profile and cutting-edge projects.

As the Technical Lead you will work closely with the customers assigned technical lead and will be required be both hands on with development, in addition you will also put in place development standards and process.

• Responsible for supporting technical delivery of a project.
• Supports PM, Test Lead, works collaboratively with the Solution Architect, Business Owner, IT Ops, development parties.
• Responsible for defining requirements supporting the various phase of the project. Available throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Responsible for the solution throughout the project.
• Responsible for the technical guidance of the delivery team ensuing standards are adhered to.
• Plan each Sprint Release with the Internal Team, 3rd Party Suppliers, Test teams, Technical and Business Stakeholders ensuring all scope and inputs are captured in detail.
• Ensure delivery is consistent with the agreed delivery model and standards.
• Ensure 3rd Party Suppliers are engaged optimally to support the successful delivery of the Small Change and Business Configuration Delivery channel
• Manage escalations appropriately to avoid any impact on overall delivery.
• Follow the agreed IT Demand and Governance processes on Status Management, Risk / Issue Management, Deliverables Management, Decision Management, Plan Management.

• 2+ years’ experience working on a project with Kafka in a production setting
• Experience working on projects implementing EDA (Event Driven Architecture)
• Preference for project that involved some form of CDC (change Data Capture)
• Senior Java Development experience (Spring Boot) 6+ years
• In-depth knowledge of Kafka from a development perspective:
  • Experience with stream processing
  • Ability to run unit testing using Kafka TopologyTestDriver
  • Ability to set up and configure Kafka brokers
  • Aware of best practice around:
    • Partitions
    • Brokers
    • Naming conventions
    • Producers/consumers
    • Transaction Processing
    • Avro
    • Schema Registry
• Experience with containers and familiar with Kubernetes (preference OpenShift)
• Experience working on a Cloud platform (preference AWS)
• Familiar with best practice around CI/CD
• Experience working on an Agile team
• Excellent communicator and influencer.
• Motived to learn and a Self-starter
• Be able to work under pressure and successfully manage a very diverse and demanding workload combined with an ability to work autonomously.
• Be comfortable and capable of communicating with all levels of people within and outside the business, both written and verbal, and with a high level of professionalism
• Be analytical with a keen eye for detail.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task.
• Certification in Kafka . E. G Confluent Certified developer for Kafka.

Why Version 1?

•      Quarterly performance related profit share

•      Certified Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row

•      Career Progression (496 CPD Promotions in last 12 months)

•      Generous Holiday Allowance

•       Hybrid working Options

•      Private Healthcare Cover

Anthony Cronin,
Version 1 Talent Acquisition Team
Tel: +353 1 901 9038
[email protected]