Lead Agentic Solutions Architect

Band of Coders; Toronto; Remote; CAD 103,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Band of Coders is seeking a Lead Agentic Solutions Architect to blend AI engineering with strong client-facing leadership. This role involves consulting, leading, and selling, partnering with client executives to translate challenges into autonomous AI workflows, and mentoring engineering teams to deliver robust architectures.

Initially, this will be an hourly contractor position, part-time, with responsibilities spanning pre-sales, technical guidance, and cross-functional collaboration to win

Qualifications

• Proven client-facing experience in technical roles (solutions architect, technical consultant, sales engineer, or founder/fractional CTO).
• Fluent English, able to explain complex LLM concepts to executives, non-technical clients, and developers.
• Located in North America or aligned to US/Canada business hours (EST/PST).
• Experience leading technical teams and owning client deliverables end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead client leadership, pre-sales discovery, and serve as the technical authority on opportunities.
• Architect agentic workflows and multi-agent systems for scalable AI solutions.
• Mentor engineering teams and establish best practices for MCP, models, and monitoring.

Skills

Client-facing leadership

Sales engineering

Technical communication

Time zone alignment

Technical leadership

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

PydanticAI

Hugging Face smolagents

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Location: Remote (USA or Canada strongly preferred; Americas time zones required)

About the Role

At Band of Coders, we are pushing the boundaries of automation and intelligence. We are looking for a Lead Agentic Solutions Architect who combines deep AI engineering expertise with exceptional client-facing leadership.

In this high-impact role, you won't just build—you will consult, lead, and sell. You will partner directly with client executives to translate complex operational challenges into autonomous AI workflows, join sales calls as the technical authority to win new business, and mentor our engineering teams in delivering robust, scalable AI architectures.

Initially, this will be an hourly contractor position, part-time.

Key Responsibilities

1. Client Leadership & Sales Engineering

• Pre-Sales & Discovery: Join pre-sales calls with prospects and clients as the primary technical authority to scope opportunities, build trust, and demonstrate technical capability.
• Technical Consultation: Translate business problems into actionable, state-of-the-art agentic architectures for non-technical stakeholders and executive teams.
• Solution Pitching: Partner with the sales and growth teams to craft compelling technical proposals, proofs-of-concept (POCs), and architecture roadmaps.

2. Architecture, Workflow & Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain advanced agentic processes, multi-agent systems, and automated workflows.
• Develop and enforce mandatory monitoring workflows, systematic data cross-checks, and guardrails to ensure production-grade reliability.
• Bridge the gap between raw AI processor capabilities and practical, high-value client operations.

3. Team Leadership & Strategic Guidance

• Lead and mentor engineering teams through the execution of agentic integrations.
• Establish best practices for multi-provider routing, Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations, and LLM monitoring.
• Serve as the principal technical liaison between Band of Coders leadership, our clients, and our execution teams.

Requirements & Qualifications

Leadership & Communication (Must-Haves)

• Client-Facing & Sales Experience: Proven track record in a client-facing role (e.g., Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, Sales Engineer, or Founder/Fractional CTO) with active involvement in pre-sales strategy and technical discovery.
• Exceptional Communication: Fluent verbal and written English with a demonstrated ability to explain complex LLM and agentic concepts clearly to C-suite executives, non-technical clients, and developers alike.
• Time Zone Alignment: Located in North America (USA or Canada strongly preferred), or working within US/Canada business hours (EST/PST).
• Technical Leadership: Experience leading technical teams, driving architectural decisions, and owning client deliverables end-to-end.

Deep AI & Technical Expertise

• State-of-the-Art LLMs & Frontier Models: Experience optimizing and routing across multi-provider environments including OpenAI (GPT-4o/o1/o3), Anthropic (Claude 3.5 Sonnet/Opus), and open-weight models (Llama 3, Mistral).
• Agentic Frameworks & Ecosystems: Hands‑on experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, PydanticAI, Hugging Face smolagents, or cloud-native toolkits (Google ADK, OpenAI Agents SDK).
• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Practical experience implementing or building custom MCP servers (e.g., GitHub, Playwright, PostgreSQL/Supabase, Filesystem, or Enterprise API connectors) to decouple reasoning from execution.
• Structured Outputs & Function Calling: Strong mastery of JSON schema enforcement, tool definition, and prompt optimization via tools like DSPy or Instructor.
• Vector DBs & RAG Tools: Knowledge of state retention and retrieval using Pinecone, Milvus, or pgvector.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands‑on experience designing and deploying scalable environments across AWS, GCP, or Azure.