Transforming a legacy payroll system into a high-availability, Dockerized platform that reduces annual expenditure by 35% and accelerates computation speed.
A US-based global professional services leader with 65,000 employees across 25 countries.
The client’s legacy payroll system suffered from extreme latency—taking nearly 18 hours per pay schedule—and critical security vulnerabilities due to outdated frameworks.
QBurst engineered a highly configurable payroll processing system using a microservices-based CQRS-ES (Command Query Responsibility Segregation - Event Sourcing) architecture to automate complex daily time records and earnings flows. The solution provides a platform-agnostic, Dockerized environment that ensures high availability and built-in audit trails for global HR operations.
Headquartered in the United States, the client is a global professional services giant with over 65,000 employees. They offer deep domain expertise across 25 countries in sectors ranging from financial services and healthcare to retail and automotive, focusing on high-level customer engagement technologies.
The client’s existing payroll infrastructure was a major bottleneck for their HR operations and IT security.
We developed a platform-agnostic application suite where individual services communicate via RabbitMQ message queuing. The architecture utilizes Ocelot as an API Gateway to handle routing, rate limiting, and Quality of Service (QoS).
The system was designed for maximum modularity and ease of maintenance:
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