Lead Solutions Architect
Affinidi provides privacy-first infrastructure and open standards for digital identity, verifiable credentials, trusted data exchange, and AI-agent trust. Its products serve developers, enterprises, security teams, compliance teams, healthcare providers, marketplaces, gig-economy platforms, and employment ecosystems.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Projects
About Affinidi
Affinidi builds trust infrastructure for individuals, businesses, systems, and AI agents. Its offerings include Affinidi Trust Fabric for agent identity, policy enforcement, observability, and settlement; Affinidi Radix for decentralized trust networks, registries, runtime queries, and governance; Affinidi Elements for verifiable credentials, user-controlled wallets, and DIDComm messaging; and Affinidi Forge, a developer toolkit with SDKs, CLI tools, a portal, documentation, and open-source projects. The organization focuses on privacy-preserving identity, secure data exchange, open standards, cryptographic verification, and user data sovereignty. Its clients and users include enterprise security and compliance teams, platform and operations teams, developers, healthcare providers, marketplace platforms, gig-economy companies, educational organizations, and employers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead technical discovery, architecture discussions, solution design, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and technical validations. You will translate customer needs into secure systems, build prototypes and reference implementations, guide deployments and adoption, document architectures and compliance considerations, and turn customer insights into reusable solutions and product inputs.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of total experience
- At least 2 years of experience in technical customer-facing roles
- Experience as a solutions architect sales engineer technical consultant or software engineer
- Strong engineering foundation in distributed systems APIs microservices and cloud architectures
- Comfort writing code integrating systems and building prototypes
- Experience across startup and enterprise environments
- Strong engineering judgment when choosing between speed and scalability
- Familiarity with OAuth2 OIDC SAML cryptography or decentralized identity models
- Strong communication across technical and business audiences
- Hands-on experience with AI systems and modern development tooling
- Ability to identify patterns and translate them into reusable solutions
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping early-stage markets
- Ability to guide others while remaining hands-on
- Strong prioritization focused on real outcomes
- Experience advising customers through production adoption
- Experience engaging engineers and senior stakeholders
- Mandarin language skills are required
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and architecture discussions
- Translate customer needs into secure trust-enabled systems
- Deliver demonstrations proofs of concept and technical validations
- Support strategic deals and resolve complex technical challenges
- Design and implement consent-driven standards-based architectures
- Build prototypes and reference implementations
- Guide end-to-end deployments and customer adoption
- Produce technical architecture flow and compliance documentation
- Represent the organization at workshops summits and industry events
- Create reusable patterns and reference architectures
- Feed customer insights into product and roadmap decisions
- Advise customers from discovery through production adoption
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Learning budget
- Home office allowance
