Job Overview
We re hiring an
Automation Architect
to design and govern end-to-end automation patterns across APIs, workflows, and human-in-the-loop (HITL) actions. You ll define the architecture for safe, auditable automation-spanning orchestration engines, connector/adapters, policy-as-code guardrails, and reliability/observability. The ideal candidate blends integration engineering, workflow/RPA expertise, and platform goverce to deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective automations at scale. Key Responsibilities
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Automation Architecture & Roadmap:
Define target architecture for orchestrated workflows (API, event-driven, and scheduled); create reference patterns for approvals, rollbacks, retries, and idempotency. -
HITL & Safety Controls:
Design gated action flows (draft approve execute) with policy-as-code, entitlement checks (role/row/column), and auditable decision trails. -
Connector/Adapter Strategy:
Standardize typed I/O contracts and error taxonomies for systems of record (e.g., ticketing, document services, data platforms, in-silico models); implement backoff/rate-limit handling and circuit breakers. -
Workflow & RPA Enablement:
Select and configure workflow/RPA/iPaaS platforms (e.g., Camunda/Temporal/Airflow, UiPath/Power Automate, MuleSoft/Boomi); publish reusable blueprints and developer guardrails. -
Reliability & Observability:
Establish SLOs and error budgets; implement tracing/logging/metrics (OpenTelemetry or equivalent); build dashboards for latency, success rate, and cost-per-automation. -
Security & Compliance:
Embed SSO/OIDC, secret management, data minimization, and audit logging; partner with security on threat models (injection, exfiltration, impersonation). -
Cost & Performance Goverce:
Define budgets, caching and queuing strategies, and autoscaling policies; monitor per-workflow spend and P50/P95 latency targets. -
Delivery Leadership:
Review designs/PRs, mentor engineers, and lead incident/post-mortem practices; maintain decision records and change-control gates across environments.
Required Skills
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Automation & Workflow Platforms:
Hands-on with one or more: Camunda/Temporal/Airflow, UiPath/Power Automate/Automation Anywhere, or iPaaS (MuleSoft/Boomi). -
Integration Engineering:
Strong API design and integration patterns (REST/gRPC, webhooks, event sourcing); message queues/streams (SQS/SNS, Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ). -
Reliability Engineering:
Retries/backoff/idempotency, dead-letter queues, circuit breakers, bulkheads; performance tuning and capacity planning. -
Security-by-Design:
SSO/OIDC, OAuth2, service accounts, secrets management (vaults/KMS), least-privilege RBAC/ABAC, audit logging. -
Observability:
Tracing/metrics/logging standards, correlation IDs, run diagnostics, and actionable dashboards; SLO/error-budget management. -
DevOps & Platform:
IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD (pipelines, artifact/versioning), environment promotion and release strategies (blue/green, canary). -
Programming Proficiency:
One or more of Python
, TypeScript/Node.js
for building reference implementations and SDKs. -
Stakeholder Leadership:
Clear communication, requirements elicitation, and cross-team alignment; ability to mentor and set engineering guardrails.
Good to Have Skills
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LLM/Agentic Patterns:
Designing safe tool-use flows, prompt/response guardrails, and evaluation hooks for AI-initiated actions. -
Knowledge & Data:
Familiarity with vector/graph stores, data lineage/provece, and policy-as-code over data access. -
UX for Approvals:
Designing clear approval prompts, rationale views, and reversible actions for HITL experiences.
This role suits a hands-on architect who can codify best-practice automation patterns, balance safety with speed, and scale reliable integrations across complex enterprise ecosystems.