Automation Architect

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 governance to deliver secure resilient and cost-effective automations at scale Key Responsibilities 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 Governance 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 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 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 provenance 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