Temporal Solution Architect

Role: Temporal Architect / Solutions Architect.

• 10+ years of application/platform architecture experience.
• 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, workflow orchestration, cloud-native platforms, or Temporal-aligned architecture.
• Strong architecture experience with Temporal.io.
• Experience in workflow design, activity design, task queues, workers, retries, timeouts, schedules, signals, queries, and versioning.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design principles.
• Experience with resilient microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Knowledge of failure handling, idempotency, consistency, and long-running transactions.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes using Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C#, or PHP.
• Experience guiding application fitment and architecture evaluations for Temporal adoption.
• Strong knowledge of production readiness, including reliability, security, performance, scalability, operations, cost management, release management, and operational support.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform.
• Ability to compare Temporal with alternative workflow technologies and architectural patterns.
• Experience with REST APIs, gRPC, service integration, and messaging/event platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Experience conducting architecture workshops, whiteboarding sessions, code reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Strong technical communication, presentation, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with legacy BPMS/workflow modernization and migration.
• Exposure to Pega, Appian, IBM BPM/Savvion, Camunda, or similar BPM/workflow platforms.
• Experience supporting presales, proposal defense, POCs, estimation, and solution design.
• Client-facing consulting experience.
• Experience with onsite-offshore coordination.
• Experience in stakeholder management and enterprise architecture governance.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Knowledge of Saga and compensation patterns.
• Knowledge of platform engineering and developer enablement.
• Experience creating reusable architecture assets and accelerators.
• Ability to collaborate with developers, business analysts, QA, DevOps/SRE, platform teams, enterprise architects, and customer leadership.
• Positive attitude, ownership, teamwork, and adaptability.
• Engineering Graduate/Post-Graduate (Computer Science preferred) or MCA.
• Strong background in software development, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and technical consulting.
• Temporal certification or training is an added advantage.
• Open-source contribution is an added advantage.
• Cloud certification is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience with Temporal Cloud is an added advantage.
• Assess customer applications and processes for Temporal adoption, modernization, or migration.
• Define end-to-end Temporal architecture.
• Design workflow/activity models, worker topology, task queues, integration patterns, resiliency, and operational guardrails.
• Educate customers and internal engineering teams on Temporal and Temporal Cloud.
• Build prototypes and POCs using supported Temporal SDK languages.
• Provide design, development, deployment, and code review guidance.
• Define production readiness covering reliability, observability, security, performance, scaling, cost, operations, incident handling, and release/versioning.
• Support proposal solutioning, estimation, technical risk analysis, migration planning, and defense workshops.
• Collaborate with sales, delivery, enterprise architecture, DevOps/SRE, QA, and platform teams.
• Develop adoption roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Create reusable reference architectures, implementation standards, accelerators, enablement materials, and knowledge repositories.
• Identify adoption blockers and resolve complex technical issues.
• Guide teams toward stable production deployments.
• Prepare architecture documents, presentations, whiteboarding sessions, status updates, and executive-ready solution summaries.