Solution Architect – Agentic Commerce & Payments

VARITE is looking for a qualified Solution Architect - Agentic Commerce & Payments located in Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC
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The e-commerce industry focuses on buying and selling products or services online through websites, mobile apps, and digital marketplaces. It enables businesses to reach customers globally by offering online catalogs, digital payments, order processing, and home delivery. The industry relies heavily on secure payment systems, user authentication, logistics, and customer experience technologies to ensure fast, safe, and convenient shopping.

Established in 2000, VARITE is an award‑winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non‑technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Title: Solution Architect - Agentic Commerce & Payments
Duration: Full Time
Location: Wilmington, DE;
Washington, DC
Pay Rate: $100k – $150k

We are looking for a hands‑on Principal Architect to lead the design and pilot of a "Zero‑Exit" fulfillment engine for a large retailer. This role requires a unique blend of Agentic AI orchestration and E‑commerce Payments infrastructure. You will design a "Digital Concierge" that autonomously navigates third‑party sites to fulfill out‑of‑stock demand while maintaining strict financial governance as the Merchant of Record (MoR).

• Design the decision engine that routes requests between Deterministic Workflows (API‑based, low risk) and Agentic AI Workflows (Headless browser‑based, high complexity).
• Architect the "Headless Browser" infrastructure (using tools like Playwright/Puppeteer) to navigate non‑standard third‑party checkout flows without user intervention.

• Define the technical flow for the "Double‑Ledger" system: bridging the customer’s native payment with the backend generation of Virtual Commercial Cards (VCC) for third‑party settlement.
• Ensure the architecture is PCI‑DSS compliant, ensuring customer raw payment data never leaves the secure vault/enclave.

• Implement Enterprise Guardrails using RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) to prevent the Agent from purchasing wrong items or hallucinating prices.
• Design the "Human‑in‑the‑Loop" escalation path for when the Agent encounters soft blocks (Captchas, MFAs) or high‑risk transaction anomalies.

• Map the technical workflow for Return Orchestration:
  How the system autonomously retrieves return labels from a third party and presents them to the customer natively.

• Agentic AI
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven experience deploying LLM‑based agents that use tools (Function Calling) to interact with the web (e.g., Lang Chain, AutoGPT concepts).
• Browser Automation at Scale:
  Deep expertise in Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium for handling dynamic DOMs, anti‑bot detection, and session management.
• Fintech / Payments Depth:
  Experience with Virtual Card Issuing APIs (e.g., Stripe Issuing, Marqeta, Adyen) and understanding of "Merchant of Record" liabilities.
• Security First:
  Demonstrated history of building architectures that separate PII/PCI data from the AI inference layer.

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