Forward Deployed Solutions Architect
Forward Deployed Solutions Architect – Agentic Commerce Trust Client: NA Contract position Remote (PST hours) - Preferred Phoenix Role Summary - 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. Key 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 Must-Have Skills - 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-Have
Skills - 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 Key Deliverables - Architecture Decision Records - Hook-point inventory - Runtime comparison - Threat models - Reference architecture diagrams - Merchant integration guides - Demo runbooks - Partner technical briefings - Technical demonstrations