About the Job
Insight Global is seeking a skilled Python Developer – Kafka & CDC Integration for a high-impact project with a leading healthcare client. The role focuses on enrollment-to-fulfillment initiatives and real-time data integration across enterprise systems.
The ideal candidate will have strong Python development skills, hands-on experience with Kafka event streaming, and knowledge of Change Data Capture (CDC) technologies. You will build scalable, event-driven solutions, integrate distributed systems, and support reliable data movement across critical business applications in a fully remote environment. Visa candidates will be considered.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain Python applications for Kafka event publishing and consumption.
Build scalable Kafka producers and consumers to support real-time data integrations.
Process, transform, enrich, and route CDC events across enterprise systems.
Integrate CDC platforms such as Debezium or HVR with Kafka architectures.
Implement retry handling, idempotent processing, and Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) strategies.
Develop RESTful APIs and microservices to support event-driven solutions.
Collaborate with architects, analysts, and engineering teams on integration design and implementation.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Kafka-based applications for performance and reliability.
Participate in code reviews, testing, deployments, and production support.
Create and maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.
Follow enterprise security, governance, and coding standards.
Required Skills & Qualifications
3–5 years of hands-on Python development experience.
Strong experience building and supporting Kafka producers and consumers.
Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) events and real-time data integration.
Strong understanding of Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, offsets, retention, and delivery guarantees.
Experience with Apache Kafka and/or Confluent Kafka.
Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
Familiarity with JSON, Avro, and schema-driven messaging patterns.
Understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architecture.
Experience with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with frameworks and libraries such as FastAPI, Flask, kafka-python, or confluent-kafka.
Strong SQL Server database experience.
Experience with .NET Core or ASP.NET Core development.
Familiarity with Angular and TypeScript.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with CDC tools such as Debezium, HVR/Fivetran, or equivalent platforms.
Familiarity with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
Healthcare domain experience involving payers, providers, claims, eligibility, or member data.
Full-stack development experience using Python or .NET for backend services and Angular for frontend applications.
Work Environment
Company: Insight Global
Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA
Work Arrangement: Fully remote
Project Domain: Healthcare data integration
Visa Candidates: Considered
Equal Opportunity Statement
Insight Global is committed to providing an inclusive work environment where employees can bring their authentic selves to work. Qualified applicants are considered without discrimination based on protected characteristics under applicable laws.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates who need assistance during the application or recruitment process.