Senior Solution Architect shaping enterprise AI engagements for Bits In Glass and ConveneAI. Governing architecture, building reusable standards, and leading GenAI delivery across client pods.
Responsibilities
Shape client engagements during the sales cycle by assessing technical feasibility and realistic production scope for 8–12 weeks
Push back on requirements that cannot be delivered before contractual commitments
Own architecture decisions affecting profitability, including model selection, build versus buy, accelerator reuse, bespoke work, and hosting approach
Write technical sections of proposals and statements of work
Help define measurable and defensible outcome metrics
Represent ConveneAI in client architecture, security, and vendor review boards
Run architecture reviews at kickoff and defined gates for every live engagement
Make cross-pod decisions on data residency, inference hosting, identity and access, network isolation, and integration patterns
Unblock pods through pairing and design review
Own the technical escalation path for drifting engagements and provide candid updates to the Product Owner and leadership
Monitor inference cost, latency, and reliability across engagements
Own the ConveneAI reference architecture and accelerator library
Define standards for agent design, evaluation, observability, security, and cost management
Evaluate models, frameworks, and tooling for inclusion in the standard stack
Build reusable technical assets to increase pod delivery leverage
Mentor GenAI Engineers and Data Engineers through design and code review
Interview and calibrate technical hires
Help define the engineering career path as the organization scales
Collaborate with senior AI architects across the global operating bench to maintain consistency across geographies
Read and write code, prototype solutions, and defend designs before enterprise architecture review boards
Requirements
10 or more years building and shipping enterprise software
At least 2 years on production LLM or agentic systems that real users depended on
Track record as the technical owner across multiple concurrent client engagements
Deep hands-on capability with Python
Cloud architecture experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
Distributed systems expertise
API and integration design expertise
Production experience with agent architectures, retrieval at enterprise scale, evaluation, and AI system operations
Experience with cost per task, latency, observability, and failure modes
Enterprise architecture fluency including identity and access, security posture, data residency, network isolation, and model hosting options
Experience getting a regulated client's review board to approve a design
Commercial literacy regarding architecture decisions and gross margin on fixed-fee engagements
Credibility with client CIOs or Chief Architects and practicing engineers
Judgement to recommend against an undeliverable deal and maintain that position under commercial pressure
Legally entitled to work in Canada
Willing to travel to client sites
Bonus: Architecture leadership at a consultancy or systems integrator, or Field CTO/principal architect experience at an AI, data, or cloud platform vendor
Bonus: Depth in regulated industries and named systems such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, core banking, or clinical systems
Bonus: Self-hosted or open-weight model deployment, fine-tuning, and private inference architecture
Bonus: Experience building a reference architecture or accelerator library reused by other teams
Bonus: Experience scaling a delivery organisation
Bonus: Published writing, conference talks, or open-source work on applied AI architecture
Benefits
Meaningful equity at the stage where technical decisions determine whether the delivery model scales or stalls
Support, culture, and established consulting expertise of Bits In Glass during the transition period
Opportunity to work directly with Convene AI founders and senior AI operators
Opportunity to contribute to an emerging AI organization at an important stage of its growth
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