Senior Kafka Engineer (Freelance)

About Brainsquare & this opportunity At Brainsquare, we help organizations design, build and manage business-critical application landscapes. We focus on long-term partnerships where technology ownership, engineering expertise and operational excellence come together. For a strategic data integration initiative within a large-scale industrial environment, we are building a new event-driven integration platform that will become the foundation for future digital transformation. This is not a short-term implementation assignment. The goal is to create a scalable, reliable and future-proof integration capability based on Apache Kafka, enabling real-time communication between different operational systems, applications and data platforms. We are looking for a Senior Kafka Engineer who can help us build the foundation, bring Kafka expertise into the team and support the transition towards long-term platform ownership. The assignment is based in Belgium with a hybrid working model, combining remote work with regular on-site collaboration moments in the Antwerp region. Your role As Senior Kafka Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing and preparing a production-grade Kafka platform. You will work together with solution architects, software engineers and operational teams to define how event streaming should be implemented, governed and maintained. Your responsibilities include: Design and set up Kafka-based event streaming solutions Define Kafka platform stan