Kafka Integration Architect-Manager- Analytics as service - Operate

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Managed Services

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in managed services focus on a variety of outsourced solutions and support clients across numerous functions. These individuals help organisations streamline their operations, reduce costs, and improve efficiency by managing key processes and functions on their behalf. They are skilled in project management, technology, and process optimization to deliver high-quality services to clients.

Those in managed service management and strategy at PwC will focus on transitioning and running services, along with managing delivery teams, programmes, commercials, performance and delivery risk. Your work will involve the process of continuous improvement and optimising of the managed services process, tools and services.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.

Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Kafka-Integration Architect – Manager

Role Summary:

The integration architect role is more generic solution architecture (not a platform architect), An integration architect is responsible for architecting solutions across API, Event driven and Batch architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Here are the high-level job responsibilities. We are looking for someone who has experience in two of the 3 areas (API, Event driven, Batch)
• Define integration architectures for federated teams—choosing between API, event streaming, and batch/IDMC patterns. Document decisions with reusable templates and guardrails.
• Enable integration modernization away from point-to-point.

Lead API product architecture (Apigee & potentially MuleSoft):

contract first design with OpenAPI/Stoplight, shared flows/OAuth policies, productization, developer portal publishing, and exception handling/time bound deviations.

Advance event driven integration (Confluent Kafka):

• data product contracts, topic/schema governance, producer/consumer onboarding (service accounts, repos), observability and lag/error patterns.
• Guide SAP/BTP & Oracle integration designs (IDoc/OData/CPI, OSB/SOA), including “last mile” with SAP PI/PO where needed, and pragmatic modernization away from point‑to‑point.
• Secure by design. Apply OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, WAF/gateway policies, secrets management (KVM/DVM) and partner with Cyber GRC for approvals
• Design common Frameworks across all integration platforms.
• Knowledge on Azure platform and resources.

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

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