Workato

Principal Technical Architect

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5 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Advise enterprise customers and prospects on AI agent use cases, strategies, architectures, and production implementations.
  • Lead customer architecture workshops covering agent design, integration patterns, governance, evaluation, confidence calibration, human-in-the-loop workflows, and continuous learning.
  • Build reference architectures, solution blueprints, demonstration environments, and best-practice documentation for the field team.
  • Create technical collateral including architecture white papers, webinars, blog posts, and conference presentations.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to incorporate customer insights into the AI platform roadmap.
  • Architect and implement memory, agent orchestration, decision trace, and autonomy subsystems for the autonomous Customer Success agent platform.
  • Design and build a Customer Knowledge Graph representing customers, users, policies, decisions, and operational artifacts for contextual retrieval and governance.
  • Implement confidence scoring, precedent matching, policy-governed escalation routing, and the autonomy framework.
  • Define infrastructure architecture and scalable technology selections for performance and latency.
  • Establish evaluation frameworks and metrics for decision quality, context accuracy, and learning velocity.
  • Support strategic accounts across US, EMEA, and APAC geographies as needed.

Requirements

  • B.Tech/BE or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in enterprise software architecture, design, and implementation.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with integration platforms such as MuleSoft, TIBCO, Oracle SOA, or webMethods.
  • At least 2 years of applied AI or agent engineering experience building production applications that leverage LLMs and agent frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience designing AI agent systems with multi-step reasoning, tool-use orchestration, and autonomous execution.
  • Working knowledge of Python agent frameworks such as LangGraph or Claude Agent SDK; persisted state and human-in-the-loop experience is preferred.
  • Experience designing and implementing graph databases, entity models, relationship extraction, graph querying, and contextual retrieval; Neo4j or NetworkX experience is a plus.
  • Practical experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and hybrid retrieval.
  • Experience evaluating and testing AI systems, including agent quality metrics, confidence calibration, prompt or pipeline A/B testing, and regression testing.
  • Production-scale prompt engineering experience, including structured prompts, output parsing, retry and fallback strategies, and prompt versioning.
  • Experience with LLM observability, including tracing, token and cost monitoring, and latency profiling; Langfuse, LangSmith, or Phoenix familiarity is a plus.
  • Experience with MCP standards for LLM-to-system integration.
  • Strong expertise in enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven architectures, microservices orchestration, pub/sub messaging, and data synchronization.
  • Deep knowledge of RESTful and SOAP APIs, webhooks, JSON, and XML.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud-native services such as Lambda or Functions, DynamoDB, Kafka or Kinesis, and S3.
  • Familiarity with enterprise applications including Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Workday, and NetSuite.
  • Understanding of enterprise security and governance requirements including OAuth, SSO, data residency, SOX compliance, audit trails, and role-based access control.
  • Customer Success platform or CRM architecture experience, including Gainsight or ChurnZero, is preferred.
  • Prior customer-facing technical experience as a Solutions Architect, Field CTO, Technical Account Manager, or Pre-Sales Engineer is preferred.
  • Contributions to open-source AI or agent projects or published technical content in applied AI are preferred.
  • Strong communication, consultative problem-solving, collaboration, written communication, adaptability, and ability to explain complex AI and architecture concepts to technical and executive audiences.

Benefits

  • Flexible, trust-oriented work culture with employee ownership.
  • Vibrant and dynamic work environment with multiple employee benefits.
  • Remote-friendly work environment.
  • Role may require up to 20% global travel and support across US, EMEA, and APAC.

Tech Stack

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AI ApplicationsSolutions Engineering
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About Workato

1,001-5,000 employees

Workato builds a cloud platform for enterprise integration and workflow automation, combining iPaaS, no-code recipes, and AI to orchestrate processes across SaaS and on‑prem systems. It sells subscriptions to IT and operations teams at large and mid-size companies; customers include firms such as Nasdaq, Cisco, and Atlassian. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a privately held company.

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