Technical Lead/Architect (Temporal & Apache Kafka required)

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[…] is a data and AI consultancy that helps clients modernize, monetize, and operationalize their data to generate lasting value. They pride themselves on their deep industry and technology expertise, ensuring that they drive and sustain the adoption of new capabilities. […] is committed to aligning their team with their clients' culture, ensuring a successful partnership by bringing the right mix of talent and skills for high return on investment.

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We are seeking a Technical Lead / Architect to define the technical vision, architectural strategy, and technical execution for our enterprise-wide, next-generation event-driven data platforms. In this role, you will act as the principal authority bridging ultra-high-throughput streaming topologies, stateful distributed workflow orchestration, and federated data governance.

You will spearhead our platform architecture centered around Apache Kafka for real-time event distribution and Temporal for durable execution and distributed state orchestration. A core mandate of this position is establishing enterprise data contracts, driving schema evolution fra