Solution Architect (Senior AI / Technical Lead)
Bits In Glass (BIG) is a high-growth AI and automation consulting firm with offices across Canada, the United States, India, and the United Kingdom. Our portfolio spans more than 10 leading technologies across AI, cloud, data, automation, and business applications.
Recognized globally as a Great Place to Work and the recipient of multiple partner excellence awards, BIG is built on collaboration, innovation, and delivering measurable business outcomes for enterprise clients. We are a team of experienced technology professionals who enjoy solving complex challenges, celebrating wins together, and helping customers modernize with confidence.
AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY WITH BIG AND CONVENE AI
BIG is excited to be partnering with Convene AI, an AI-focused technology company developing innovative solutions that leverage artificial intelligence to solve real-world business challenges.
As part of this partnership, we are looking for talented professionals to join BIG and work directly on Convene AI projects and initiatives. You will initially be hired as an employee of Bits In Glass , while working closely with the Convene AI team and contributing to the development and growth of their AI solutions.
The role is expected to remain on BIG’s payroll for approximately 12–18 months, with the intention of transitioning to a permanent position directly with Convene AI following this period, subject to business requirements and transition arrangements.This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to an emerging AI organization at an important stage of its growth, while benefiting from the support, culture, and established consulting expertise of Bits In Glass .
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is the highest-leverage technical role at ConveneAI. Every architectural decision you make is inherited by multiple client engagements, and the accelerators and standards you build determine how fast the next pod moves.
The mandate has three parts. You shape engagements before they are sold, by assessing what is genuinely buildable in 8 to 12 weeks and saying so honestly.
You govern architecture across live pods, making the decisions a single embedded engineer should not make alone: model hosting, data residency, security posture, integration patterns. And you lead the technical craft, through design review, mentorship, and the reference architecture that every pod starts from.
You will remain hands-on. You will read code, prototype when it is faster than arguing, and stand in front of a bank's or an insurer's architecture review board and defend a design under real scrutiny. If you have drifted into slideware architecture, this will not suit you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Shaping and Pre-Sales
- Join client conversations during the sales cycle to assess technical feasibility, and scope what can realistically reach production in 8 to 12 weeks.
- Push back on requirements that cannot be delivered, before they become contractual commitments on a fixed-fee or outcome-based engagement.
- Own the architecture decisions that determine engagement profitability: model selection, build versus buy, reuse of existing accelerators versus bespoke work, and hosting approach.
- Write the technical sections of proposals and statements of work, and help the commercial team define outcome metrics that are measurable and defensible.
- Represent ConveneAI in client architecture, security, and vendor review boards, and clear the technical path to a signed deal.
Architecture Governance Across Pods
- Run architecture review at kickoff and at defined gates for every live engagement, and hold the gate when a design is not ready.
- Make the calls that carry risk beyond one pod: data residency, private versus hosted inference, identity and access design, network isolation, and integration patterns with systems of record.
- Unblock pods when they hit something outside their depth, by pairing and reviewing rather than taking the work away from them.
- Own the technical escalation path