Data Cloud(Data360) Consultant
Perficient · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteInformation Technology$90k/yrFull-time
About the role
A Data 360 Senior Consultant plays a hands-on delivery role, building and configuring the data architectures that unify customer data and power activation across the Salesforce ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Configure, build, and test Data 360 components, including data streams, transforms, identity resolution rulesets, calculated insights, segments, and activations, against an approved solution design.
- Execute data mapping and ingestion plans, validating field-level mappings against the Customer 360 Data Model and catching discrepancies before they reach production.
- Build and troubleshoot batch and streaming transforms, resolving data quality issues and ingestion errors to keep environments clean and reliable.
- Configure activations to downstream systems such as Agentforce, Marketing Cloud, CRM objects, and Tableau to meet defined specifications.
- Support UAT, document configuration decisions, and provide go-live and hypercare support to keep implementations stable after launch.
- Bring technical questions, edge cases, and open items forward promptly, contributing informed observations from the build.
- Partner closely with the project team to keep builds aligned to specifications and timelines, communicating progress and blockers clearly.
- Deepen technical fluency across Data 360, Agentforce, Marketing Cloud Next and the broader Salesforce ecosystem, growing toward greater ownership over time.
- Provide hands-on guidance to junior consultants during build and testing.
- Lead requirements gathering sessions, author clear technical and functional documentation, and translate business needs into actionable work items and user stories.
- Apply a strong business analyst foundation to deeply understand client business objectives, identify process enhancements or optimization opportunities, and ensure solution architecture directly solves core business challenges.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2-4 years of professional experience with Salesforce, including hands-on Data 360 (Data Cloud) build experience across data streams, transforms, identity resolution, calculated insights, segmentation, and activation.
- Proficient in SQL for writing and troubleshooting transforms and calculated insights.
- Working knowledge of SOQL and the core Salesforce data model (Sales Cloud / Service Cloud objects).
- Experience executing data mapping against a defined target data model.
- Comfortable following documented technical specifications with strong attention to detail.
- Experience with Apex and/or JavaScript for custom logic, troubleshooting, and validating build feasibility is a plus.
- Exposure to Lightning Web Components for building Data 360-driven visualizations is a plus.
- Familiarity with Marketing Cloud or Tableau for activation and downstream reporting.
- Experience working directly with Data 360 APIs is a plus.
- Salesforce Data Cloud / Data 360 certification(s) required.
- Comfortable coordinating with other development streams (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud) to keep Data 360 builds aligned with related work in flight.
- Proficient in authoring and presenting clear technical documentation.
- Ability to elicit information and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Experience working on multiple concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Flexible to new situations and challenges.
- Bachelor's Degree or commensurate skills.
Pay
The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets,