Forward Deployed Solutions Architect

TalentOla • Oregon City, OR

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a highly experienced Forward Deployed Solutions Architect with strong hands-on expertise in LLM agent systems, identity, security, payments, and agentic commerce architectures. This person will own the technical solution end-to-end, including architecture decisions, integration patterns, trust enforcement, partner discussions, threat modeling, and technical demonstrations. The role will work closely with merchants and technology partners such as Anthropic, Google/UCP, Cloudflare, Visa, wallet providers, and other agentic-commerce ecosystem partners.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Software Architecture, Platform Architecture, or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on coding/software engineering background.
• Recent 2025–2026 production experience with LLM/AI agent systems.
• Strong experience with AI agents using tools and external integrations.
• Hands-on knowledge of the Anthropic Claude ecosystem, including: Messages API, Tool use, Prompt caching, Agent SDK, Managed Agents.
• Strong understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including authenticated MCP servers.
• Strong identity/security knowledge: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, JWKS, HTTP Message Signatures.
• Experience with payment or checkout architectures.
• Knowledge of agentic-commerce protocols such as: UCP, OpenAI, ACP, AP2.
• KYA concepts.
• Strong threat modeling and privacy-by-design experience.
• Ability to create strong ADRs, architecture diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
• Excellent client-facing and partner-facing communication skills.
• Experience leading technical workshops with external engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• W3C Verifiable Credentials 2.0
• OID4VCI / OID4VP
• SD-JWT
• BBS+
• Fraud and risk decisioning platforms
• Cloudflare Workers
• CDN/edge architectures
• Forward Deployed Engineer or Forward Deployed Architect experience

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architecture for trust, identity, and risk decisioning in agentic commerce ecosystems.
• Evaluate Anthropic runtime options including Messages API, Agent SDK, and Managed Agents.
• Identify trust enforcement and integration hook points across agent runtimes.
• Create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence diagrams, and reference architectures.
• Design: Session identity binding, Approve / step-up / deny decisioning, Fail-open and fail-closed policies, Gateway verification for hosted agents.
• Build loyalty-without-login architecture using UCP and protocol-agnostic middleware/header patterns.
• Design Verifiable Credential POCs covering issuer, wallet, presentation, and merchant verification.
• Create threat models and privacy-by-design architectures.
• Prepare merchant integration guides, demo runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Lead technical discussions and demos with merchants, partners, and external engineering teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed