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By unifying custom automation scripting, CRM integration health surveillance, and brand-level AI prompt engineering, you will eliminate handoff friction across corporate, brand, and franchise layers to ensure high-volume data flows seamlessly, prompt logic stays brand-safe, and enterprise leadership receives accurate performance analytics.\nYour Impact\nAs a Solution Architect, you'll work with the Director of Solution Architecture, R&D, and partner stakeholders to:\nOversee and execute proprietary scripts on a daily basis to synchronize and deploy complex automation workflows.\nBuild and update brand-level automation sequences, localized service advertisement integrations, and custom multi-unit owner variations.\nMonitor high-volume CRM data transfer paths between client systems and Vendasta.\nTriage on integration failures; diagnose root causes and route/fix accordingly.\nConduct continuous reconciliation across documentation, CRM records, data warehouse pipelines, and live production instances to prevent silent data dropouts.\nManage brand-level system prompts, prompt chains, context boundaries, tone parameters, and guardrails.\nExecute rigorous manual and automated testing for all prompt updates prior to deployment\nMaintain the classification logic, database queries, and custom reporting structures \nWhat You Bring to the Table\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.\nValid Passport required for frequent travel to the United States\n4+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Technical Operations, Forward-Deployed Engineering, or Customer Engineering within enterprise B2B SaaS\nStrong background in AI and prompt systems engineering-including LLM behavior tuning, RAG retrieval mechanics, context boundary guardrails, and conversation log evaluation\nExceptional communication skills \nExperience working within multi-location franchise networks, distributed enterprise branch models, or channel partner ecosystems is considered an asset.\nAbout Vendasta\nWe help businesses get more customers. 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