diff --git a/package-kafka-serde-tools/pom.xml b/package-kafka-serde-tools/pom.xml
index 1dbf1d8cb2e..5db17783416 100644
--- a/package-kafka-serde-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/package-kafka-serde-tools/pom.xml
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@
             <artifactId>connect-json</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
+            <artifactId>kafka-tools</artifactId>
+            <version>${kafka.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
             <artifactId>connect-file</artifactId>