Technical Architect

About Workato

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real-time, driving efficiency and agility.

Trusted by a community of 400,000 global customers, Workato empowers organizations of every size to unlock new value and lead in today's fast-changing world. Learn how Workato helps businesses of all sizes achieve more at

Why join us?

Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company. 

But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That's why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives. 

If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you

Also, feel free to check out why:

• Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"

• Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world

• Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America

• Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

Note: This role requires working until 1:00 AM IST (2-3 times a week) to overlap with customer timezone. 
Responsibilities

Workato is looking for an experienced Technical Architect to join our Accelerators team. The role is a hands-on individual contributor position responsible for the success of a set of domain and industry-specific packaged solutions and technical accelerator frameworks. This role involves collaboration with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external. You will translate real-world customer challenges into problems that can be addressed by the Accelerators team independently or in collaboration with other teams. You will also ensure that product features and innovations are communicated effectively to drive adoption.

Workato has a positive, diverse, and collaborative culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, smart, hardworking, and work to be a little better every day. Workato has also been recognized among the "Top 47 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On in 2020", the "Hottest 13 Productivity Software Startups to Watch in 2020", and the "Top 15 startups helping even non-programmers build simple apps, ahead of an expected software developer shortage" by Business Insider.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Accelerators (Product) planning and implementation throughout the lifecycle, including capturing and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision and extensible architecture, and working closely with business partners to deliver winning products

• Understand the users, market, and competition

• Launch new products, test their performance, and iterate constantly and quickly to achieve faster time to value.

• Bring teams together to define and implement product features

• Create and deliver custom product demonstrations to support the sales and other internal teams

• Develop collaterals: product documentation, design specs, solution briefs, presentations, demos, webinars, white papers, blog articles, and best practices

• Responsible for maintaining all documents, tools and information to enable the sales team to reach their full potential

• Prioritize and deliver outstanding customer service experience to Workato customers

• Play a key role right from the product ideation stage to the implementation stage

• Support customers during US and EMEA business hours (up to 11:00 PM IST) for about 20% of bandwidth

Requirements
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• B.Tech/BE or higher technical education - A Computer Science degree is a plus

• Total 8+ years of relevant experience in the field of design, development and implementation

• 6+ years of experience working with Integration Platforms such as MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Oracle SOA, TIBCO, webMethods etc.

• Hands-on experience with implementing Microservices or API-based integration architecture, event-driven architecture, Process Automation

• Hands-on experience implementing integration projects for customers is a must. Should have knowledge of:

  • Exception handling and logging frameworks for iPaaS

  • CI/CD processes for iPaaS

• Experience with custom connector development using any iPaaS SDK is a plus

• Experience with cloud technologies - iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure such as AWS/Azure/GCP

• Strong working knowledge with APIs - RESTful, SOAP

• Sound knowledge of Data Structure - JSON/XML/EDI

• 2-3  years of coding experience (Java/Python/Ruby etc.)

• Sound knowledge of any RDBMS

• Technical background or a good understanding of technology and industry trends, especially in the app integration space

• Experience working with enterprise business apps like SAP / Workday / NetSuite / Salesforce / ServiceNow is a plus

• Agile development methodology is a plus

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Strong collaboration skills, ability to adapt to a dynamic start-up environment with a passion for making an impact

• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills with an entrepreneurial and proactive mindset

• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage time, even under high-pressure situations

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively to a non-technical audience

• Fast learner who can independently conduct extensive research, and synthesize ideas, information and options quickly

• Be proactive about solving problems and be ready to take on additional initiatives and responsibilities as they emerge

(REQ ID: 2216)

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