Solution Architect

📋 Description

• • Futureworks Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Solutions Architect to spearhead a critical 12-week transformation initiative for a major North American enterprise client. This role is central to stabilizing and optimizing a complex supply chain relaunch, demanding a robust technical blueprint that ensures security, scalability, and economic efficiency. As a key member of our "Time Benders" team, you will leverage your expertise to design and implement AI-native operational systems, contributing to our mission of collapsing timelines for high-impact transformations.
• • Your primary accountability will be to architect the secure cloud environment, meticulously shaping the system architecture across data, modeling, and application layers. This includes ensuring the decision engine is not only robust for pilot validation but also production-ready for immediate deployment. You will collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team, including Data Engineers, Business Analysts, Full Stack Engineers, and QA professionals, to transform a fragmented operational landscape into a cohesive, secure, auditable, and scalable solution.
• • The role demands end-to-end ownership of the architecture, encompassing data ingestion, sophisticated storage solutions, model services, intricate optimization logic, and user-facing applications. You will be instrumental in defining and overseeing a single-tenant cloud environment, prioritizing rapid delivery while adhering to stringent requirements for security, granular access control, comprehensive auditability, and strict data isolation.
• • A significant aspect of your contribution will involve close collaboration with the Data Engineering Lead. Together, you will shape the canonical schema, define integration patterns, and establish transformation rules essential for unifying disparate historical data sources, including freight, order, inventory, and rate card information. This unification is crucial for creating a single source of truth that drives informed decision-making.
• • Architecting the decision engine is another core responsibility. You will design how predictive models, complex business rules, and optimization solvers interact seamlessly to generate clear, defensible recommendations that operate effectively within real-world operational constraints. This requires a deep understanding of both technical capabilities and business imperatives.
• • Furthermore, you will establish the critical non-functional requirements for production hardening. This includes defining standards for performance, resilience, proactive monitoring, streamlined deployment processes, robust rollback strategies, and overall release readiness, ensuring the platform can operate reliably and efficiently beyond the initial pilot phase.
• • As a cross-functional technical leader, you will translate complex business requirements and intricate operational logic into clear, actionable technical decisions. You will guide engineering teams through critical trade-offs, strategic sequencing of development efforts, and the implementation of high-quality engineering standards. Your ability to communicate technical vision effectively to diverse stakeholders will be paramount.
• • Futureworks Inc. is an AI-native professional services firm focused on building operational AI and data systems that enhance sustainability and resilience through optimization. We believe in mastering velocity and are committed to becoming the world's best Service-as-Software company. We seek individuals with a keen interest in building symbiotic human-AI systems, possessing high energy, strong agency, and a passion for innovation.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to work on a high-visibility project with significant impact, driving tangible economic gains and operational improvements for a large enterprise client. You will be at the forefront of applying cutting-edge AI and data technologies to solve complex real-world challenges in a fast-paced, agile environment. Your work will directly contribute to the client's strategic objectives and Futureworks' reputation for delivering breakthrough results.
• • The ideal candidate will thrive in an environment that values precision, flawless systems, and calm, effective execution. You will be empowered to pursue excellence, embrace continuous learning, and contribute to a culture of selfless collaboration and candid feedback. Your ability to integrate AI-native workflows, including the use of LLM code assistants, will be key to enhancing speed, quality, and architectural clarity throughout the project lifecycle.
• • This role is integral to our mission of delivering joy by underpromising and overdelivering, creating delight for both our clients and our internal team. You will be part of a globally distributed, remote-first company that fosters deep connections through immersive retreats and offers substantial opportunities for professional growth and profit sharing.