Job Description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Integration Developer with deep expertise in Confluent Kafka. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing complex integrations across our enterprise systems, enabling secure and scalable data exchange between cloud and on-premise applications.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Design and implement robust integration solutions using Kafka.
• Collaborate with architects and business analysts to translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop, configure, and maintain APIs and event-driven pipelines.
• Build and monitor data streams using Kafka (topics, producers/consumers, connectors).
• Design, develop, and maintain Kafka-based solutions for data streaming, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Also responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of the Kafka platform, often collaborating with other teams to implement solutions and troubleshoot issues.
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and performance tuning.
• Maintain documentation, design specifications, and technical procedures.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in IT enterprise integration with a Bachelors Degree in engineering or MCA or MSc.
• Advanced knowledge of Kafka - stream processing, data pipelines, schema registry.
• Familiarity with REST, SOAP, APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Action).
• Good understanding of security concepts (OAuth2, JWT, basic auth, etc.).
• Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture and its components.
• Experience with Kafka producer/consumer APIs, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect.
• Familiarity with various programming languages (e.g., Java, Python).
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Centre, Log4j).
• Experience with data integration and ETL processes.

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission -- to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life -- unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart-- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity

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