Lead Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer (Cogentiq)
Fractal Analytics3 months ago
Base Salary
$185k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production-grade AI applications using the Cogentiq platform.
- Deploy enterprise AI solutions from proof of concept through production.
- Build integrations with enterprise applications and business systems including SAP, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Develop reusable connectors, APIs, SDKs, MCP servers, and automation components.
- Design secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures and build reliable backend services and microservices.
- Collaborate directly with customer engineering and business teams, conduct technical workshops, and deliver AI solutions.
- Troubleshoot production deployments, optimize performance, and ensure reliability and security.
- Convert customer deployment learnings into reusable Cogentiq platform capabilities.
- Lead architecture discussions and collaborate with AI engineers, platform engineers, product managers, and solution architects.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production-grade backend applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Python; experience with Java or TypeScript is a plus.
- Experience working with databases, Git, enterprise integration patterns, API-first architectures, SQL, and authentication mechanisms including OAuth, JWT, and SAML.
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications with LLMs, agentic AI frameworks, RAG, tool calling, prompt engineering, and AI evaluation techniques.
- Experience with MCP and modern AI orchestration frameworks is highly desirable.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Snowflake, and Databricks.
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, observability, monitoring, security best practices, and deployment pipelines.
- Ability to work directly with customers, translate business challenges into technical solutions, communicate with technical and business stakeholders, and lead architecture discussions and workshops.
- Ability to take ownership of outcomes, prototype rapidly, learn quickly, and turn customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans are available from the first day of employment, subject to plan documents.
- Eligibility for the company 401(k) plan begins after 30 days of employment.
- The company provides 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks of parental leave.
- A free-time PTO policy provides flexibility for sick time or vacation.
- Full-time employees and hourly employees working more than 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Fractal Analytics
Fractal builds enterprise AI and analytics solutions—delivered as consulting services and software products—for large global enterprises, especially Fortune 500 firms. Its teams embed AI in decisions across marketing, pricing, supply chain, forecasting, and customer experience. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, Fractal is publicly listed and operates across North America, EMEA, and APAC.