About this opportunity
akoya lists this Solution Architect opportunity in boston, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Meet the future
Akoya offers a highly collaborative, fast-paced, and fun working environment and our team is comprised of diverse, creative, and driven professionals with expertise in the banking, securities, fintech, and data aggregation industries.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Come join us and be part of this exciting journey - check out for more information!
The Role
The Solution Architect is Akoya's technical bridge between our network and the customers building on top of it, engaging from the earliest pre-sales conversations through implementation, go-live, and ongoing support. This role reports to the Head of Customer Solutions & Support. Solution Architects work hands-on with customer engineering teams - demonstrating the product, scoping integrations, configuring authentication and SSO, and troubleshooting API issues - while building trusted relationships with stakeholders ranging from individual developers to executives. It's a highly technical, customer-facing role that combines deep API and security expertise with strong communication and problem-solving instincts.
As a Solution Architect, you will:
Pre-Sales & Solutioning
Serve as the primary technical resource for prospective and new Akoya customers throughout the sales cycle
Deliver technical product demonstrations and proofs-of-concept tailored to a customer's use case and existing stack
Gather, document, and assess integration requirements and technical specifications directly with customer engineering teams
Build sample code, Postman collections, or lightweight integration prototypes to validate feasibility and de-risk deals before contract signature
Be assertive in recommending the right solution architecture for a customer's needs and willing to raise the flag when a customer's proposed approach won't work
Implementation & Onboarding
Own the technical onboarding of new customers from contract signature through go-live
Configure and troubleshoot delegated authorization flows (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) and SSO integrations hands-on with customer teams
Debug REST/JSON API integration issues using tools such as Postman, curl, browser dev tools, and network/packet traces
Write and maintain integration guides, runbooks, and technical documentation for customers and internal teams
Run joint testing and troubleshooting sessions with customer technical teams through go-live
Post-Sales & Support
Handle escalated technical support issues, performing hands-on root-cause analysis across API, network, and authentication layers
Serve as the customer's technical advocate internal, relaying feedback and requirements to Product and Engineering
Partner with Product Development to improve deployment ease, documentation and self-serve tooling based on field experience
Build and refine internal tools, scripts, and sample integrations that speed up future customer onboarding
Relationships & Communication
Build trusted technical relationships;good news about **alk**? ...
Present technical concepts clearly to audiences ranging from individual developers to executive stakeholders
Travel occasionally to customer sites, conferences, or partner meetings as needed
Required Experience & Skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on professional experience
Proficiency in Go, with working exposure to JavaScript (Node.js), Python, or Java, comfortable writing and debugging real integration code, and code reviews
Deep, hands-on knowledge of RESTful JSON APIs, including designing, testing, and troubleshooting them (Postman, curl, etc.)
Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting Delegated Authorization frameworks (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML), including direct experience configuring SSO
Strong understanding of how the internet works under the hood: DNS, proxies, firewalls, load balancers, CDNs, and TLS/certificates
Exceptional communication and able to flex between whiteboard-level technical detail and executive-level framing
Strong troubleshooting instincts and a bias toward hands-on diagnosis over escalation
Comfortable being client-facing, including raising concerns when a customer's proposed direction won't work
Flexibility to travel occasionally
Preferred Experience/Skills
Hands-on cloud experience, preferably AWS (IAM, API Gateway, Lambda, VPC/networking)
Experience working in a fintech or other regulated financial services environment
Familiarity with open banking / financial data standards: Financial Data Exchange (FDX), OFX, and FIX
Working knowledge of securit
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Worksite address
boston, MA, 02298, US
Who can apply
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