Senior Event-Driven Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Azure Event Grid Engineer to design and implement event-driven integration patterns that expose Core Banking data to the enterprise. This role is pivotal in enabling real-time, secure, and scalable data exchange across multiple business domains using Confluent Kafka,  and related services. You will ensure all event contracts align with our Canonical Data Model and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, supporting a consistent and governed enterprise integration strategy. Responsibilities Architect and manage Event Grid Domains, topics, and subscriptions for enterprise-scale event distribution. Implement secure, resilient event pipelines leveraging Confluent Kafka, Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes services, Logic Apps, Service Bus/Event Hubs, and API Management. Define and enforce canonical event schemas and domain models for Core Banking data, ensuring consistency and interoperability across consuming systems. Collaborate with domain architects and product teams to apply DDD practices (event storming, bounded contexts) for modeling banking events. Integrate with Core Banking systems and expose events to enterprise consumers while meeting compliance and audit requirements. Establish observability and reliability patterns: telemetry, retries, dead-lettering, idempotency, and schema versioning. Champion event-driven architecture standards and governance across Cloud Core and enterprise teams. Qualifications 7+ years in distributed systems or integration engineering; 3+ years hands-on experience with Enterprise Event Grids. Expertise in event-driven architecture and Azure services: Event Grid, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Functions, AKS, Logic Apps, API Management and Confluent Kafka.  Strong experience with Canonical Data Models and Domain Modeling (DDD), including event storming and context mapping. Proven ability to integrate with Core Banking platforms and financial systems. Solid understanding of security, compliance, and data governance in financial services (PCI DSS, GLBA, ISO 20022). Ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and contribute to the development of engineering policies, standards, and procedures. Advanced written and verbal communication skills for articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field or the equivalent combination of education, training or experience.