Senior Engineer - Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

Company Overview: Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company connecting patients, providers, payers, pharmacists and manufacturers for integrated care coordination and better patient management. Backed by nearly 100 years of experience, with more than 48,000 employees in nearly 60 countries, Cardinal Health ranks among the top 20 on the Fortune 500 , America's Most Innovative Companies #51,Fortune Sector Leaders : Health Care #5 with a $223 billion. of revenue in FY25 About Cardinal Health International India (CHII) : This role is part of the Enterprise Technology Platform-The engineering arm of Security for Cardinal Health International India Pvt Ltd (CHII). Cardinal Health International India (CHII) is part of the Cardinal Heath Global Technology and Business Services ( GTBS) team. CHII leverages technology to offer scalable and healthcare solutions to enhance efficiency and improve quality of care across the value chain. Our vision is to build a world class capability center that is an intersection of tech-innovation and learning, empowering our people to build solutions which will solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.  The Middleware & Integration function enables Cardinal Health’s ability to operate as a connected, responsive, and customer-focused enterprise. Through Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and modern integration platforms, this role helps ensure that critical business events and data flows are shared across the enterprise in near real time—enabling faster decisions, improved customer experiences, and resilient operations. This role is accountable for designing, developing, administering, and continuously improving Kafka-based middleware capabilities. The role partners across application, architecture, data, and operations teams to ensure event streaming solutions are scalable, secure, data-safe, and aligned to Cardinal Health’s broader technology and business strategy. How This Role Delivers Value By advancing modern middleware and Kafka capabilities, this role enables: Near real-time order, inventory, shipment, and business-event visibility across enterprise platforms Reliable and data-safe event streaming patterns that improve interoperability across systems Scalable, secure, and resilient integration platforms that support enterprise growth and modernization Proactive insights, automation, and monitoring that improve platform reliability and reduce operational effort Outcomes are achieved through technical excellence, continuous learning, accountability, and strong enterprise partnerships, consistent with Cardinal Health’s Leadership Journey ( Leads Self, Lead Others & Lead Business ) expectations Key Accountabilities Apply advanced knowledge of Kafka, event streaming, integration patterns, and platform administration to deliver enterprise-scale middleware outcomes Participate in and support development of standards, policies, and procedures that improve middleware governance, reliability, and adoption Recommend new practices, processes, metrics, automation, and models that strengthen Kafka platform performance and operational maturity Work on or lead complex initiatives involving Kafka producers, consumers, connectors, ksqlDB, KStreams, APIs, and custom implementations Enable event-driven architecture adoption across teams by guiding correct patterns, event modeling, data integrity, and best practices Provide solutions and guidance that may set precedent for enterprise middleware standards and reusable event-driven patterns Independently determine methods for completing new platform work while aligning with enterprise architecture, governance, and security expectations Partner with leads and stakeholders to ensure teams understand technology changes, platform impacts, and adoption expectations Act as a mentor and subject matter expert to developers, engineers, and less experienced colleagues working with