Remote Forward-Deployed Solutions Architect: Identity/Payments

Cogniify, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 168,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO and parental leave

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Annual bonus program

Employer Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental health and wellbeing support

Job summary

Cogniify, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Solutions Architect to lead trust and identity integrations for agentic commerce.

This hands-on role teams with engineers to build reference integrations, document ADRs, and demonstrate architectural decisions for merchants and partners. The role spans Claude API, Agent SDK, and Managed Agents, with design work on session binding, gateway verification, and Verifiable Credentials, while shaping threat models and privacy by design.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of solutions or software architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience taking AI agents into production with external tool integrations.
• Working knowledge of Anthropic Claude platform, including Messages API, Agent SDK and Managed Agents.
• Experience with identity and payments architecture (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT/JWKS, HTTP signatures).
• Familiarity with agentic commerce protocols (UCP, OpenAI ACP, AP2) and KYA concepts.
• Ability to translate architecture decisions into implementation guidance and ADRs.

Responsibilities

• Compare integration points across Claude Messages API, Agent SDK and Managed Agents; document ADRs in 90 days.
• Design identity binding at session start and backend decisions for verification or denial.
• Create gateway verifier for hosted agents to simplify merchant integration.
• Define loyalty experiences without extra logins; support headers/middleware approach for other protocols.
• Define Verifiable Credential concepts: issuer, holder wallet, presentation flow and privacy properties.
• Write threat models, reference architectures, sequence diagrams and runbooks; lead partner demos.
• Collaborate with external engineering teams to resolve integration questions and explain technical choices to stakeholders.

Skills

Hands-on coding

AI productionization

Identity & payments architecture

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / JWT

Threat modelling

Architecture decision records

Technical leadership

Tools

Claude Messages API

Agent SDK

Managed Agents

MCP / MCP servers

Job description

Cogniify, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Solutions Architect to lead trust and identity integrations for agentic commerce.

This hands-on role teams with engineers to build reference integrations, document ADRs, and demonstrate architectural decisions for merchants and partners. The role spans Claude API, Agent SDK, and Managed Agents, with design work on session binding, gateway verification, and Verifiable Credentials, while shaping threat models and privacy by design.