Workflow Engineer — Orkes Conductor

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• **Orkes workflow design**: Design and implement Orkes Conductor workflow definitions for all AWA use cases — defining task sequences, sub-workflow compositions, HITL Wait tasks, fork/join parallel execution patterns, and SLA-governed task timeouts.
• **HITL integration**: Configure Orkes Human Task definitions used for HITL reviewer queue routing; implement HITL resume logic that correctly restores LangGraph checkpoint state after reviewer decision (Approve/Edit/Reject).
• **Compensating transactions**: Design and test compensating workflows triggered on downstream failure (e.g. ICCS or Core Banking posting failure after IDP approval); ensure idempotency of all compensation steps via awa_job_id deduplication.
• **Retry and resilience**: Configure Orkes task retry policies (fixed, exponential backoff with jitter), circuit breakers, and dead-letter queue (DLQ) handling for all task failure modes.
• **Orkes integration with LangGraph**: Design the interface between Orkes tasks and LangGraph agent invocations: passing awa_job_id through task inputs/outputs, managing LangGraph execution as Orkes worker tasks, handling LangGraph errors as Orkes task failures.
• **awa_job_id propagation**: Ensure awa_job_id is correctly passed through every Orkes task input and output; validate via integration tests that awa_job_id is present and correct in every downstream system record.
• **Workflow observability**: Configure Orkes workflow metrics export to Azure Monitor; build Orkes-specific KQL queries for task failure rates, workflow duration distribution, HITL queue depth, and retry rate by use case.
• **New use case onboarding**: Lead the workflow design for each new AWA use case: define the workflow skeleton, agree task SLAs with the business, design the HITL routing policy, and build the workflow test suite.

Required Skills and Experience

• Technical — Essential
• 5+ years in workflow orchestration engineering: Orkes Conductor, Apache Conductor, Temporal, or Apache Airflow
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts: idempotency, at-least-once delivery, eventual consistency, saga patterns
• Experience designing long-running durable workflows with human approval steps
• Python or Java for Orkes worker implementation
• REST API design: understanding of webhook patterns for async workflow resume
• JSON/YAML workflow definition authoring; schema validation
• Technical — Advantageous
• Orkes Conductor specifically — familiarity with Orkes Cloud, worker SDK, Human Task definitions
• LangGraph or LangChain awareness — understanding agentic execution models that Orkes orchestrates
• Kafka consumer group management — for event-driven Orkes workflow triggers
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics — for Orkes metric export and alerting
• Banking process knowledge — STP, clearing windows, exception handling flows

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience with production workflow orchestration systems managing thousands of daily workflow instances
• Pay: AED17,000.00 - AED21,000.00 per month