GenAI Solution Architect

Company Description

Assent is the leading solution for supply chain sustainability tailored for the world's top-tier, sustainability-driven manufacturers. Hidden risks riddle supply chains, many of which weren't built with sustainability in mind. That's where we step in. With insights from experts, Assent is the tool manufacturers trust for comprehensive sustainability.

We are proud to announce that Assent has crossed the US$100M ARR milestone, granting us Centaur Status. This accomplishment, reached just 8 years following our Series A, makes us the first and only Certified B Corporation in North America's SaaS sustainability industry to celebrate this milestone.

Our journey from $5 million to US$100M ARR in just eight years has been marked by significant growth and achievements. With our $350 million US funding led by Vista Equity Partners, we're poised for even greater expansion and are on the lookout for outstanding team members to join our mission.

Hybrid Work Model

At Assent, we proudly embrace a remote-first work model, valuing the flexibility and autonomy it provides our team. We also acknowledge the intangible benefits of occasional in-person workdays. For team members situated within 50 kms/31 miles of our five global offices in Ottawa, Eldoret, Penang, Columbus, and Amsterdam, you can expect to come into the office at least one day a week. Similarly, those near our co-working spaces in Nairobi and Toronto are encouraged to work onsite once a month.

Job Description

Assent is expanding its AI capabilities to support more efficient, data-driven, and scalable ways of working across the organization. As part of this transformation, we are seeking a GenAI Solution Architect to lead the design, governance, and technical delivery of AI-powered solutions that enhance productivity and empower teams across the business.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director, Technology & Data Solutions, and serves as the technical leader for our AI engineering function, providing architectural direction and technical leadership to GenAI Developers and partnering closely with stakeholders across Technology, Data, Privacy, Security, and business teams. You will define the patterns, guardrails, and architectural foundations that ensure AI solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with Assent's standards — while enabling responsible and effective use of AI across the company.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence and collaborate across functions. You will play a central role in shaping how Assent leverages AI to streamline operations, unlock efficiency, and equip teams with modern tools that augment their work.

Architecture & Solution Design

• Lead the design of production-grade GenAI solutions including copilots, automated workflows, retrieval systems, and agent-based architectures.

• Develop and maintain reusable patterns, reference architectures, design standards, and code templates.

• Provide solution design leadership and architectural oversight for all AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy.

• Evaluate emerging LLM capabilities and guide model selection, integration strategy, and implementation approach.

Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical guidance, oversight, training, and enablement to both specialized GenAI program developers and citizen developers/champions across the organization, ensuring high-quality implementation aligned with architectural standards.

• Provide architectural leadership and delivery oversight to cross-functional team members mobilized for GenAI projects, ensuring their work aligns with established patterns, standards, and governance requirements.

• Translate solution designs into clear engineering specifications and development plans.

• Oversee code quality, development workflows, testing strategies, and deployment processes.

• Ensure solutions include monitoring, auditability, fallback paths, and long-term maintainability.

Governance & Responsible AI

• Implement technical guardrails for secure data handling, privacy, PII isolation, logging, and responsible AI usage.

• Govern citizen-developer activity and ensure consistency with enterprise standards.

• Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Data Governance to identify risks and ensure compliance.

• Participate in the enterprise AI governance framework, providing technical guidance and architectural assessments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to refine use cases, assess feasibility, and translate operational needs into technical workflows.

• Support the AI Champions ecosystem with patterns, guidance, and technical enablement.

• Contribute to roadmap planning, intake, and prioritization for enterprise AI initiatives.

• Work closely with Enterprise Integrations, Data engineering, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure consistent integration with core systems and data platforms.

Qualifications

We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 10 years of experience in technical roles with demonstrated progression in responsibility and scope, including specialized experience in technology solution design, applied AI engineering, or system integration.

• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying production-grade LLM applications, including copilots, agents, RAG systems, or workflow automation.

• Strong proficiency in Python, with experience building modular, maintainable components for AI-driven workflows.

• Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or DSPy, and familiarity with agent-based design patterns.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including serverless compute, API integration, monitoring, and logging.

• Experience designing secure and responsible AI solutions with considerations for PII handling, privacy, auditability, and compliance.

• Ability to translate business needs into clear architectural designs, solution patterns, and development specifications.

• Proven experience providing technical guidance to developers or cross-functional engineering contributors.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate AI system behavior and optimize workflows using performance metrics.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate complex concepts clearly.

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family's well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It's not all about the money – well, it's a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.

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