Advancement Solution Architect

About the role

The candidate will be responsible for serving as the primary functional and solution architect for Salesforce implementation engagements across university advancement and nonprofit fundraising clients. This includes providing end-to-end leadership from discovery, requirements development and user story definition through to solution design, sprint delivery, testing, deployment, and go-live.

Responsibilities

• Translate client business needs into scalable solutions with defined delivery scope, while overseeing configuration, integrations, data architecture, sprint planning, and overall solution quality.
• Be a trusted advisor to clients and help resolve delivery challenges, provide objective analysis and recommendations, and ensure solutions remain aligned with client goals, scope, and best practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and leader within the Attain Partners team, supporting adoption, training, documentation, and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term solution success.
• Support adoption, training, documentation, and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term solution success.
• Strengthen delivery practices and contribute to practice growth through proposal support, solutioning, pilots and proofs of concept, thought leadership, and development of reusable assets.
• Provide industry best practices as a trusted advisor to key business and technology stakeholders and identify areas of product growth.

Requirements

• Experience in enterprise-level Salesforce projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success.
• Deep functional and technical expertise in the Salesforce platform, including core configuration features, data models, security, automation, reporting, integrations, and deployment practices.
• Demonstrable experience delivering solutions across the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Experience, .
• Strong requirements gathering and business analysis skills, including facilitation of discovery workshops and conversion of requirements into user stories and actionable delivery scope.
• Experience in documenting and diagraming current state business processes and future-state solutions, along with the ability to communicate related recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems, as well as working with integration tools (ETL, SIS, finance, marketing automation, reporting, etc.).
• Expert level understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience supporting solution estimates, proposals, technical solutioning, or other pre-sales and practice-development activities.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree.
• Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer.
• Desired Salesforce Admin Certification.

Skills

• Experience in software development life cycle.
• Experience using or implementing Kindsight Ascend or Affinaquest Grants Management and Foundation Connect experience is a plus.
• Higher Education, Nonprofit Cloud certifications (desired but not required).
• Project management skills and experience in managing teams.
• Strong knowledge of data management, including data capture, warehousing, segmentation, storing, cleansing, and security.
• Strong knowledge of CRM software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem solving skills.
• Team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple workstreams.

Benefits

Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs
11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO)
Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us
A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.

Pay

$175,000 USD - $175,000 USD

Schedule

Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs.