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System Design Architect

Preferable Location(s): Lahore, Pakistan | Karachi, Pakistan | Islamabad, Pakistan
Work Type: Full Time

We are seeking a System Design Architect to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of modern, scalable, and resilient workflow platforms for our clients.

As a trusted technology partner for several enterprise clients, we help organizations design distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, event-driven, and cloud-native. You’ll play a key role in driving these architectural engagements — defining patterns, mentoring teams, and ensuring solutions are robust and maintainable at scale.

While direct experience with specific workflow orchestration technologies is a strong advantage, we value system design expertise, distributed systems fundamentals, and rapid learning ability above all.


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end system design and architecture for workflow and automation platforms across client engagements.

  • Design and implement distributed, event-driven systems with high scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.

  • Define architecture blueprints, reference implementations, and best practices for workflow orchestration and stateful service design.

  • Collaborate with client engineering teams to evaluate, onboard, and scale workflow solutions.

  • Guide decisions around data consistency, reliability patterns (sagas, retries, compensation), and observability.

  • Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical governance across multiple concurrent projects.

  • Partner with internal solution teams to establish accelerators, templates, and frameworks for rapid client adoption.

  • Mentor engineers and provide architectural leadership within the organization.


Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software architecture, backend design, or distributed systems.

  • Proven experience designing microservice-based or event-driven architectures.

  • Deep understanding of scalability, reliability, consistency models, and system resiliency.

  • Proficiency in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript.

  • Strong understanding of messaging, streaming, and asynchronous communication (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub).

  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Observability).

  • Solid background in API design, workflow modeling, or automation systems.

Nice to Have (Highly Advantageous)

  • Experience with workflow orchestration platforms or stateful orchestration frameworks (e.g., Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, Step Functions).

  • Understanding of orchestration vs. choreographyactivity/task design, and failure handling patterns.

  • Experience running or optimizing workflow or event-processing clusters in production environments.

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes operatorsservice meshes, and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).

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