Forward Deployed Solutions Architect – Agentic Commerce Trust

24 hours ago

phoenix, arizona, United States Damco Full-time
Forward Deployed Solutions Architect – Agentic Commerce TrustWe 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 Skills8+ 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