Getting an AI agent live is no longer the hard part. The hard part is what comes after the pilot: expanding from one use case to twenty, holding quality as policies and systems change underneath you, proving containment and CSAT to a CIO, and earning the right to the next set of journeys. On our largest accounts, that work needs a senior named technical owner. That owner is the Senior Customer Architect.
You are deeply credible in a design review — able to read an execution trace, reason about why an agent chose the wrong tool, and design guardrails and evaluation strategy. You set the architecture and own quality sign-off; our Agentic Deployment team executes. Beyond your own portfolio, you raise the bar for the whole function: you mentor Customer Architects, lead playbook development for a vertical, and represent the function in the accounts where the stakes are highest. The operating principle: make deployments prescriptive and repeatable, not bespoke.
Responsibilities:
- Design the end-to-end agent architecture across the customer's journeys and channels — chat, email, voice, SMS, in-app — including agent decomposition, escalation and handoff design, and how autonomous and human-in-the-loop modes divide the work.
- Design the integration blueprint against the customer's real stack: CRM and ticketing (Salesforce, Zendesk, ServiceNow), telephony and contact center, identity, loyalty and reservations systems, order and payments, and data platform.
- Set the guardrail, governance, and observability architecture: define what the agent must never do, how that is enforced, how it is audited, and what the customer's compliance and risk teams see.
- Set the architecture and governance standard the Agentic Deployment team executes against, and own quality sign-off before anything reaches production.
- Author and maintain a Technical Success Plan per account: current-state architecture, target-state architecture, the sequenced roadmap between them, and the metrics defining success at each stage.
- Define the measurement model with the customer up front — containment, resolution rate, CSAT/DSAT, deflection economics, handle time, escalation quality, cost per resolution — and hold both sides to it.
- Run a recurring technical business review with customer leadership: what shipped, what it moved, what's next, and what's at risk.
- Own the technical expansion path for land-and-expand: chat to email to voice to employee-facing, plus new intents, lines of business, regions, and languages.
- Identify expansion opportunities from technical reality rather than wishful mapping, size the work honestly, and hand qualified opportunity to the account team.
- Anticipate what breaks at the next order of magnitude — peak-event volume, new policy regimes, upstream system migrations — and get ahead of it in the roadmap.
- Hold the primary technical relationship with senior stakeholders: VP/Head of Customer Experience, Director of Contact Center Technology, enterprise architects, security and compliance leadership, and often the CIO.
- Advise on the parts of the program Netomi doesn't own — knowledge base quality, policy clarity, agent operating model, org readiness — because agent performance depends on all of it.
- Deliver hard technical news early and clearly. Credibility is built on accurate expectation-setting, not optimism.
- Set the architecture and quality standard that SI delivery partners build against.
- Certify and enable partner delivery teams; scale through them rather than absorbing all delivery work.
- Maintain quality sign-off regardless of who executes.
- Contribute to vertical deployment blueprints — airline, insurance, gaming, media — covering reference architecture, guardrail configuration, evaluation packs, and expansion paths.
- Turn what works in one account into prescriptive onboarding and day-2 playbooks the whole organization deploys from.
- Translate field observation into specific, evidenced, pattern-based product input — quantified, not anecdotal.
- Be a named internal voice on enterprise requirements: security posture, deployment topology, model flexibility, and auditability.
- Lead the technical side of escalations: quality regressions, integration failures, and incidents during peak events.
- Drive root-cause analysis with Engineering and communicate it to the customer with precision and appropriate accountability.
- Mentor Customer Architects on architecture decisions, account strategy, and stakeholder management; review their Technical Success Plans and quality sign-offs.
- Lead playbook and reference architecture development for a core vertical, and drive its adoption across the account portfolio.
- Take the first-of-kind deployments — new channels, new verticals, new deployment topologies — and turn what you learn into standards others execute against.
Requirements:
- 10+ years in customer-facing technical roles — solutions architecture, technical account management, forward-deployed engineering, implementation architecture, or technical consulting — including sustained ownership of post-sales technical outcomes.
- Demonstrated ownership of multiple concurrent enterprise accounts at Fortune 500 scale, including programs spanning brands, regions, or lines of business, with senior technical stakeholders and real consequences to failure.
- Genuine technical depth: reads code and API documentation, reasons about distributed systems and integration architecture, debugs a failing data flow, and holds their own with a customer's principal engineer.
- Working understanding of LLM-based systems — prompting, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, failure modes — and judgment about where they are and aren't the right answer.
- Consultative and prescriptive: builds playbooks, not one-offs.
- Moves between a CIO conversation about business outcomes and an engineering conversation about trace-level agent behavior without losing either audience.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward writing things down.
- Track record mentoring or leading other architects or senior technical ICs, formally or informally, and raising the standard of the work around them.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience co-delivering through SI partners — enabling delivery teams rather than doing all the work directly.
- CX, contact center, or conversational AI background — CCaaS, CRM/ticketing ecosystems, IVR and voice, workforce management.
- Depth in a core vertical: airlines and travel, media and streaming, gaming and sports betting, financial services and insurance, or retail.
- Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI, ISO 27001 — without escalating to Legal for every question.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks or quality programs for non-deterministic systems.