Forward Deployed Solutions Architect

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Solutions or Software Architecture, with hands-on coding and recent (2025–2026) production experience building LLM agents with tool use.
• Strong knowledge of Anthropic Claude, including Messages API, tool use, prompt caching, Agent SDK, Managed Agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) with authenticated MCP servers.
• Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT/JWKS, HTTP message signatures, and secure identity and authorization architectures.
• Experience with agentic commerce and payment protocols, including UCP, OpenAI ACP, AP2, and Know Your Agent (KYA) concepts.
• Strong understanding of checkout security, identity binding, backend risk decisioning, and approve/step-up/deny authorization policies.
• Experience in threat modeling, privacy-by-design, security controls, and fail-open/fail-closed policy design.
• Ability to create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), reference architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, and technical integration guides.
• Familiarity with W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC 2.0), OID4VCI, OID4VP, SD-JWT, BBS+, and digital wallet integrations.
• Knowledge of API gateways, middleware, CDN/edge architectures, and Cloudflare Workers.
• Strong technical communication skills, with experience leading partner engineering sessions, building demos, and translating business requirements into technical solutions.