Advancement Solution Architect

Attain Partners; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health+Dental+Vision

Flexible time off

401(k) matching

Career growth tracks

Job summary

Attain Partners is seeking a senior Salesforce architect to lead enterprise-level Salesforce projects across university advancement and nonprofit fundraising clients. You will drive end-to-end delivery from discovery through go-live, translating client needs into scalable solutions, and guiding configuration, data architecture, and integrations.

You will also mentor the team, support adoption and training, and contribute to practice growth through pilots, thought leadership, and reusable assets.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise Salesforce projects with both waterfall and agile life cycles.
• Deep Salesforce platform expertise including core configuration, data models, security, automation, reporting, integrations, deployment.
• Experience delivering across Sales, Service, Experience Cloud.
• Strong requirements gathering and storying to drive delivery scope.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with multiple business systems and tools.
• Salesforce development: Apex, LWC, SOQL/SOSL, asynchronous processing.

Responsibilities

• Lead as primary functional and solution architect for Salesforce engagements.
• Translate client needs into scalable Salesforce solutions with defined scope.
• Oversee configuration, integrations, data architecture, and sprint planning.
• Serve as trusted advisor, resolve delivery challenges, and ensure quality.
• Support adoption, training, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder facilitation

Solution design

Agile & Waterfall

Data modeling

Integrations & data architecture

Apex & LWC

SOQL/SOSL

Release & environment management

Tools

Salesforce

ETL

SIS

Affinaquest

KindSight Ascend

Job description

Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and ever y where in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients.

People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team. We share a collective passion for our mission and our people. Guided by our seven core values, The Attain Way, our vision is the foundation of our culture—to be and attain the best.

Job Description

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. The candidate will need to translate client business needs into scalable solutions with defined delivery scope, while overseeing configuration, integrations, data architecture, sprint planning, and overall solution quality. The candidate will also be a trusted advisor to clients and is expected to help resolve delivery challenges, provide objective analysis and recommendations, and ensure solutions remain aligned with client goals, scope, and best practices.

In addition to supporting client projects, the candidate will 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. This includes strengthening delivery practices and contributing to practice growth through proposal support, solutioning, pilots and proofs of concept, thought leadership, and development of reusable assets.

Through user story definition, logical data model design, functional system design, and best-practice methodologies, you will be responsible for the detailed design of enterprise-level Salesforce and related technology projects from inception through production support. You will be responsible for providing industry best practices as a trusted advisor to key business and technology stakeholders and identifying areas of product growth.

Required Skills

• 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.)
• Salesforce development expertise, including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL, asynchronous processing, and platform development patterns, with the ability to design, review, troubleshoot, and contribute to custom solutions when declarative capabilities are insufficient.
• 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.
• Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer

Desired Skills

• 6+ years direct experience in software development life cycle
• 5-8 years’ experience in Salesforce configuration and implementing CRM systems
• Proven experience in overseeing the direction, development, and implementation of CRM software solutions
• Experience using or implementing Kindsight Ascend or Affinaquest
• Grants Management and Foundation Connect experience is a plus.
• Specific knowledge of CRM SaaS products; Salesforce ideal
• 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
• Must have excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple workstreams

Additional Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
• Experience supporting sales and business development
• Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs

Additional Information

Attain Partners values your mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing. Our comprehensive benefits package starts on your first day of employment and includes benefits such as:

• 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.

Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Individual compensation will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills.

Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

Attain Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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