8th Light

Solutions Engineer

• As a go-to architect and strategist within 8th Light, you'll partner with one or two clients a year on their hardest architecture challenges, while deepening your and our collective expertise over the course of your career with us.
• This role sits at the intersection of long-term planning and hands-on technical leadership. You'll work across the enterprise to map data dependencies, drive legacy modernization, and define how domains like pricing fit into a broader enterprise data and AI ecosystem. One day that might mean aligning teams to deliver new low-latency data sets; the next, running architecture trade-off analysis with senior product, design, and business leadership.
• A significant part of the work involves mapping application dependencies and capabilities, building an enterprise-wide context graph, and contributing to an MCP server built on enterprise architecture tooling, all aimed at giving teams (and the AI-assisted tools they use) the context to make better design, trade-off, and risk decisions.
• Day-to-day output is hands-on architecture and design: planning artifacts, architecture diagrams, decision records, and roadmap contributions. This isn't a feature-delivery role, but you'll need enough data and technical depth to make well-informed calls, design real systems, and build credibility with technical stakeholders.

Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Full-stack Engineer

• As a lead technologist on projects, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, through a variety of technologies and frameworks over the course of your career with us.
• You’ll lead more complicated projects, leading teams to do so.
• You’ll work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions.
• You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know.
• Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients.
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines.
• Leading architecture and software design discussions.
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
• Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients.
• Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives.
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items.
• Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values.
• Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog.
• Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements.
• Maintaining relationships with client technical leaders.
• Regular syncs with the client to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions.
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress.
• Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes.

Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Lead Software Engineer