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# Forward Deployed Solutions Architect

- **Company:** TalentOla View all jobs
- **Location:** Oregon City, OR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Computing Platforms, Middleware, OAuth, OpenID, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Cloudflare, Virtual Agents, Network Server
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us1a2288bc6ddf0c05a65a7b4b2b772267

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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., * 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., * 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
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