Senior Customer Architect

Restaurant365; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k + matching

Equity Option Grant

Unlimited PTO

Company holidays

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

Restaurant365 seeks a Customer Architect to design scalable AI-powered solutions, spanning product configuration, integrations, and workflows for enterprise customers. You will architect and build agents, automations, and intelligent workflows while ensuring security and reliable data handling.

You will partner with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and Support to remove barriers, create reusable playbooks, and drive adoption of AI across multiple customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Enterprise SaaS, TAM, Solutions Architecture or similar customer-facing tech role.
• Experience partnering with enterprise customers on complex deployments, integrations or transformations.
• Strong understanding of SaaS architecture, APIs, integrations and data flows.
• Experience designing AI-powered applications, agents, automations or workflows.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Strategic Customer Success Managers for enterprise customers and act as technical advisor.
• Diagnose technical, operational, and workflow challenges and design scalable solutions.
• Identify opportunities for AI, automation, or custom apps to improve outcomes.
• Architect and build AI-powered solutions using modern tools and ensure security and data handling.
• Move solutions from prototype to deployment with attention to APIs, data flows and reliability.
• Develop reusable playbooks and AI capabilities that scale across customers.
• Reduce firefighting by solving systemic issues impacting multiple customers.
• Define evaluation criteria for AI features and monitor performance against outcomes.

Skills

Enterprise SaaS

Solutions Architecture

AI-powered apps

APIs & Integrations

Tools

ClaudeCode

Codex

Job description

Restaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry! Our cloud-based platform provides aunique, centralized solution for accounting and back-office operations for restaurants. Restaurant365’s culture is focused on empowering team members to produce top-notch results while elevating their skills. We’re constantly evolving and improving to make sure we are and always will be “Best in Class” ... and we want that for you too!

Restaurant365 is the leading all-in-one restaurant management platform, helping thousands of restaurant operators run and grow their businesses through a single, integrated cloud solution. Purpose-built for the restaurant industry, our platform combines accounting, inventory, purchasing, workforce management, payroll, scheduling, operations, and business intelligence—empowering restaurant operators to improve profitability and operate more efficiently.

Trusted by some of North America's largest restaurant brands as well as thousands of independent operators, Restaurant365 is redefining how restaurants operate through technology.

As a Customer Architect, you'll play a critical role in helping customers realize the full value of the Restaurant365 platform. You'll design scalable solutions spanning product configuration, integrations, business processes, and operational workflows, while identifying opportunities to solve meaningful business problems with AI. You'll personally architect and build AI-powered applications, agents, automations, and workflows for both customers and internal Restaurant365 teams.

This is a highly strategic, cross-functional role for someone who enjoys solving difficult problemsand building repeatable solutions that improve customer outcomes.You'llbe expected to move from problem discovery and solution design to hands‑on building and deployment, using modern AI development tools to turn ideas into working solutions.You'llwork closely with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and Support to remove technical and operational barriers while helping shape the future of Enterprise Customer Success at Restaurant365.

• Partner with Strategic Customer Success Managers to support Restaurant365's largest enterprise customers and serve as the technical advisor for complex customer environments.
• Diagnose technical, operational, and workflow challenges across customer environments, integrations, and business processes, and design scalable solutions that improve business outcomes.
• Proactively identify opportunities across customer and internal workflows where AI, automation, or custom applications can eliminate manual work, improve customer outcomes, or solve complex operational challenges.
• Personally architect and build AI-powered solutions, including agents, custom applications, automations, integrations, and intelligent workflows, using modern AI development tools such asClaudeCode, Codex, and similar technologies.
• Take solutions from concept and prototype through deployment, with appropriate consideration for application architecture, APIs, data flows, security, permissions, data handling, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drivecross-functional alignment across customer and internal stakeholders to define technical strategy, resolve complex challenges, and move solutions forward.
• Develop reusable playbooks, solution patterns, and AI capabilities that can scale across customers and internal teams.
• Reduce reactive firefighting by identifying and solving systemic issues that impact multiple customers.
• Define evaluation criteria for AI features, implement monitoring and safety guardrails, and measure performance against business outcomes.

• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise SaaS, TAM, Solutions Architecture,orsimilar customer‑facing technical role.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with enterprise customers on complex software deployments, integrations, or business transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of SaaS architecture, APIs, integrations, enterprise software ecosystems, and data flows, with the ability to diagnose complex technical and operational challenges and develop scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building AI‑powered applications, agents, automations, or workflows, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into working solutions.
• Hands‑on experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar platforms to build applications and solutions.
• Strong working knowledge of APIs, integrations, LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, MCP, data flows, and modern application architecture, with enough technical depth to independently build and troubleshoot solutions.
• Understanding of how to deploy AI‑powered applications responsibly, including security, authentication and permissions, customer data handling, reliability, and ongoing maintainability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to executive and technical audiences and influence cross‑functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong analytical thinking, systems thinking, and structured problem‑solving skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
• A builder mindset with the curiosity to uncover problems, propose solutions, rapidly prototype ideas, and personally turn those ideas into working capabilities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting enterprise customers in ERP, financial software, payroll, workforce management, restaurant technology, or other operational SaaS platforms.
• Experience working with multi‑location or franchise businesses.
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations, APIs, middleware, and data architecture.
• Experience building reusable frameworks, playbooks, or operating models that improve scalability.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap priorities and product readiness.
• Consulting experience with firms such as Deloitte, Accenture, Slalom, PwC, or EY, or equivalent enterprise transformation experience.
• Experience deploying AI‑powered applications or automations into real‑world business environments and driving adoption with end users.

• This position has a salary range of $130K - $174K. The above range represents the expected salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic location. Restaurant365 focuses on equitable pay for our team and aims for transparency with our pay practices.
• Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
• 401k + matching
• Equity Option Grant
• Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
• Wellness initiatives

This role is hybrid, balancing flexibility with the value of in‑person collaboration. To support connection, partnership, and team effectiveness, employees are expected to work onsite each Tuesday and Wednesday.

DYN365, Inc d/b/a Restaurant365 is an equal opportunity employer.