Agentic Solutions Architect - Splunk (Remote)

Role Summary 

Splunk is seeking a senior individual contributor to serve as the technical lead for the AI agents that make our technical sellers more productive, setting direction through thought leadership and influence across field teams. The role spans the full agent lifecycle across multiple platforms: setting best practices for cost, performance, design, and integrations; deciding which agents are built where; completing the last-mile build; maintaining a subset in production; and directing and reviewing a contractor who builds additional agents. You will combine agentic engineering (designing and building agents) with agentic operations (running them reliably, safely, and cost-effectively) as the single technical authority guiding quality from design through production. Your immediate mission is to deliver an initial 3 to 5 agents that streamline technical sellers’ daily workflows, freeing them to spend more time customer-facing and advancing Splunk’s revenue and customer-success goals. 

Responsibilities 

Agentic Platform Strategy (Architect) 

Reference Design & Standards: Advise on the end-to-end design for agentic systems across platforms, contributing inputs to the reference designs, patterns, and standards agents are built against, and informing system-level decisions on how agents reason, integrate, and scale. 

Cross-Platform Best Practices: Define, document, and evangelize best practices for cost, performance, design, and integrations across the organization’s agent platforms, so teams build consistently and avoid duplicated effort. 

Platform Selection & Build Allocation: Guide which agents are built on which platform, balancing capability, cost, integration fit, security, and maintainability, and set the criteria the organization uses to decide. 

Contractor Direction & Review: Set technical direction for a contractor building agents, specifying what to build and where, and reviewing their work for quality, security, and adherence to standards. (Technical direction and review, not people management.) 

Technical Thought Leadership & Influence: Serve as the recognized technical authority for agentic systems across field teams, contributing to reference designs and standards, mentoring engineers, and driving alignment with IT, Engineering, Cloud Operations, Security, Product, and field stakeholders through influence. 

Strategic Impact: Advance Splunk’s revenue and customer-success goals by increasing technical sellers’ customer-facing time and making the agents behind demonstrations and Field Solutions Apps more capable, reliable, safe, and cost-effective. 

Agent Delivery & Engineering (Build) 

Deliver Seller-Productivity Agents: Own delivery of an initial 3 to 5 production agents that streamline technical sellers’ daily workflows, prioritizing the use cases that return the most selling time and measurably reduce manual effort. 

Last-Mile Build & Integration: Complete the last-mile build of agents, wiring up tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients, data sources, and integrations, and hardening them from prototype to dependable production use. 

Agent Design & Orchestration: Translate the reference design into working agentic systems with eva