AI-Driven Solutions Architect

CAVA - Support Center; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus and long-term incentives

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Health, Dental, Vision, Telemedicine

401k with company contribution

Free CAVA food

Casual work environment

Job summary

CAVA is hiring a Solution Architect to lead innovative AI and automation initiatives across restaurants and the broader business. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions tested and expanded across the organization.

This technical leadership role requires shaping strategies, designing integrations, and guiding engineering teams with a focus on security, governance, and measurable value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, architecture, data, or related technology fields.
• 3+ years delivering complex enterprise solutions.
• Experience applying AI, automation, or emerging technology to solve business challenges.
• Experience architecting solutions across cloud, APIs, data platforms, enterprise systems, edge systems, and third‑party technologies.
• Strong understanding of AI solution architecture, including model integration, data grounding, evaluation, monitoring, security, and governance.
• Experience with restaurant, retail, hospitality, supply chain, or distributed operating environments preferred.
• Hands‑on with AWS or similar cloud platform, container technologies, and modern application architectures.
• Development experience with Python, Node.js, Java, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience defining API, event‑driven, and integration strategies at scale.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, performance, security, and reliability practices.
• Experience leading technology evaluations, proofs of concept, vendor selection, RFPs, and implementation planning.
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and move ideas from concept through implementation.
• Ability to balance experimentation with practical delivery, operational readiness, and measurable business value.

Responsibilities

• Partner with restaurant operations, product, engineering, data, marketing, finance, supply chain, and other teams to identify innovation opportunities.
• Translate business challenges into technical strategies, solution designs, prototypes, and implementation plans.
• Architect solutions that improve restaurant operations, guest experiences, team member experiences, and enterprise productivity.
• Evaluate and apply AI, intelligent agents, workflow automation, computer vision, sensors, connected devices, and other emerging technologies.
• Lead technical discovery, proofs of concept, and pilots, with clear success measures and paths to scale.
• Design secure integrations across restaurant systems, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, data platforms, edge technologies, and third‑party services.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns for AI, automation, integrations, and emerging technology.
• Assess the technical, operational, financial, and organizational impact of proposed solutions.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation and ensure alignment with architectural standards.
• Incorporate security, privacy, resilience, observability, responsible AI, and data governance into solution designs.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, decision records, integration patterns, and implementation guidance.
• Communicate technical opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Evaluate vendors, platforms, and technologies based on business value, architectural fit, scalability, cost, and long‑term ownership.
• Stay current on AI, restaurant technology, automation, and broader industry trends.

Skills

AWS

Python

Node.js

Java

Go

API design

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Vendor evaluation

Job description

CAVA is hiring a Solution Architect to lead innovative AI and automation initiatives across restaurants and the broader business. You will translate business needs into scalable, secure solutions tested and expanded across the organization.

This technical leadership role requires shaping strategies, designing integrations, and guiding engineering teams with a focus on security, governance, and measurable value.