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Location Bristol, London, Reading Business Line Technology & Transformation Job Type Permanent / FTC Date published 30-Sep-2026 Req # 25332Location Bristol, London, Reading Business Line Technology & Transformation Job Type Permanent / FTC Date published 30-Sep-2026 Req # 25332Location Bristol, London, ReadingLocationBristol, London, ReadingBusiness Line Technology & TransformationBusiness LineTechnology & TransformationJob Type Permanent / FTCJob TypePermanent / FTCDate published 30-Sep-2026Date published30-Sep-2026Req # 25332Req #25332Job descriptionJob descriptionJob description
Connect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIAdvance and grow your career within a leading organisation.Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience Responsibilities:Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.Skills/Must have:Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters. Engineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues “What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREAConnect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIAdvance and grow your career within a leading organisation.Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience Responsibilities:Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.Skills/Must have:Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters. Engineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues “What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREAConnect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIAdvance and grow your career within a leading organisation.Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience Responsibilities:Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.Skills/Must have:Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters. Engineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues “What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREAConnect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIAdvance and grow your career within a leading organisation.Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience Responsibilities:Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.Skills/Must have:Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters. Engineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues “What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREAConnect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIAdvance and grow your career within a leading organisation.Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience Responsibilities:Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.Skills/Must have:Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters. Engineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues “What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREAConnect to your Industry
Connect to your IndustryConnect to your IndustryApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AI
Application Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AIApplication Development & Integration – Event-Driven Architecture and AI- Advance and grow your career within a leading organisation.
- Access training and skill development platforms such as A Cloud Guru, Udemy, and LinkedIn Learning.
- Benefit from certifications and training programmes designed to enhance your expertise.
- Enjoy a flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Connect to your career at DeloitteConnect to your career at DeloitteDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values.Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity,lead the wayserve with integritytake care of each othertake care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.foster inclusioncollaborate for measurable impactThese five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunity
Connect to your opportunityConnect to your opportunityWe are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.
We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Integration Architect with certified, hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka and strong experience embedding AI capabilities into real-time, event-driven platforms. This pivotal role involves architecting streaming data platforms that power both operational systems and AI/ML applications, while leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance the architectural design and delivery process itself.As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.
As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical vision and architectural strategy for Kafka-based event streaming platforms and their integration with AI-enabled applications. You will lead end-to-end solution design, from conceptualisation through to production deployment, ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, low-latency, and aligned with overall business objectives.Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.
Your role will involve translating business requirements into robust event-driven architectures, including topic and schema design, stream processing pipelines, and real-time feature delivery for AI/ML models, while selecting appropriate technologies and guiding engineering teams through implementation.You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.
You will be instrumental in establishing architectural best practices for Kafka platform design, data governance, and streaming AI patterns, and in championing innovative approaches to leveraging AI within event-driven architectures. You will work closely with clients, product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact, real-time AI solutions.Connect to your skills and professional experience
Connect to your skills and professional experienceConnect to your skills and professional experienceResponsibilities:
Responsibilities:Responsibilities:- Lead the architectural design, development, and implementation of complex Kafka-based event-driven platforms and AI-driven applications across various business domains.
- Define and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices for Kafka cluster design, topic/schema management, and stream processing, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Translate business requirements and use cases into comprehensive technical architectures, including event models, integration patterns, and deployment strategies for streaming and AI applications.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate streaming and AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks, including Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Apache Flink, Schema Registry, and real-time feature stores for ML/AI use cases.
- Strategically utilise AI-powered tools and techniques (e.g., generative AI for code, architectural pattern suggestions, anomaly detection on streaming data) to accelerate and enhance architectural design, documentation, and development processes.
- Design and oversee real-time data pipelines that support AI/ML model training and inference, including feature engineering, model serving triggers, and event-driven GenAI use cases.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, guiding them through architectural decisions and complex technical challenges related to Kafka and AI solution delivery.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, ethical AI, and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, AI Act), and enforce Kafka security best practices (SASL/SSL, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit).
- Collaborate with product owners, data scientists, and engineering teams to ensure architectural designs meet functional and non-functional requirements, including throughput, latency, and exactly-once processing guarantees.
- Conduct architectural reviews, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security assessments for Kafka and AI-integrated solutions.
- Stay abreast of emerging Kafka ecosystem technologies (e.g., KRaft, Confluent Cloud, Strimzi on Kubernetes), architectural patterns, and industry trends to continuously enhance our solution offerings.
- Contribute to business development activities, including supporting proposals, client pursuits, and identifying opportunities to extend Kafka and AI architecture work with existing and prospective clients.
Skills/Must have:
Skills/Must have:Skills/Must have:- Proven experience in Senior Integration or Solution Architect roles, with a strong focus on designing and implementing Apache Kafka-based platforms and AI-driven applications.
- Desirable - Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) and/or Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), or equivalent Kafka certification.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud (or equivalent, e.g., AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).
- Strong understanding of generative AI models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their application in real-time, event-driven solution design, including streaming RAG and event-triggered AI agents.
- Proficiency in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and experience with ML/AI frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) for real-time inference.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, data mesh principles, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their streaming/AI integration offerings.
- Experience with data integration architectures (data lakes, ETL, streaming), data governance, schema evolution, and security best practices relevant to Kafka and AI solutions.
- Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (e.g., Strimzi) and with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center) for streaming platforms.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Experience working in a consulting environment is a significant advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to business development, client relationship management, and practice-building activities, consistent with a Senior Manager-level remit.
Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation
Connect to your business - Technology and TransformationConnect to your business - Technology and TransformationDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.Engineering, AI and Data
Engineering, AI and DataEngineering, AI and DataWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.
We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.Personal independence
Personal independencePersonal independenceRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues
Connect with your colleaguesConnect with your colleagues“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & Transformation
“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan,Technology & TransformationOur hybrid working policy
Our hybrid working policyOur hybrid working policyYou’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.
You’ll be based in Bristol, London, or Reading with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Our commitment to you
Our commitment to youOur commitment to youMaking an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.Connect to your next step
Connect to your next stepConnect to your next stepA career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersWPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREA
WPFULL SLTTECH BAENGAI BAENGG LOCBRI LOCREA