Salesforce Technical Architect - Senior Manager

Huron; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Salesforce Technical Architect to design multi-cloud solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and more for Education, Healthcare, Construction, and Manufacturing sectors. Lead technical requirements, architecture sessions, and manage integrations while translating business needs into scalable technical use cases.

The role requires 5–7 years in consulting and Salesforce.com, a related bachelor’s degree, and travel readiness.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of consulting experience.
• 5-7 years’ experience with Salesforce.com.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in pre-sales activities and client demos.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Sales, Service, Marketing clouds.
• Lead technical architecture workshops with client teams and architects.
• Manage integrations, design technical requirements, and document specs.
• Coordinate with PMs, developers, and account managers; mentor staff.

Skills

Salesforce architectural experience

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Pre-sales & proposals

Team collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field

Tools

Salesforce APIs

Apex

Lightning

AppExchange

Enterprise Integration tools

Job description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The Salesforce Technical Architect will be responsible for designing project solutions with different clouds on the Salesforce platform (e.g. Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, App Cloud, Agentforce) in relevant Industries: Education, Healthcare, Construction or Manufacturing and Industrials. In this capacity the Technical Solution Architect will have an expert understanding of Salesforce.com standard applications, web application development, Salesforce integration, and tools such as the Salesforce APIs, Apex, Lightning, the AppExchange and relevant Industry AI solutions that are used to extend the standard product set. Candidate must be able to lead technical requirements gathering sessions, write requirements, technical architecture documents and manage integration tasks. They also must have a solid business understanding and be able to translate business process flows into technical use cases.

Qualifications

• 5- 7 years of consulting experience
• 5-7 years’ experience with Salesforce.com
• 5-7 years' experience in analyzing requirements, writing functional specifications, conducting tests, troubleshooting issues and interfacing with business users
• Huron requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience
• Prior team management experience, experience managing people (mentoring, delegating, reviewing work, and coaching staff)
• Experience in pre-sales activities, proposal development, presentations, and Demo's
• Willingness to attend and present at orals
• 5 or more years of experience managing external client projects in positions
• Design and document an end-to-end Salesforce solution to include: leading technical architecture workshops with Enterprise Architects, Information
• Security Architects, Integration Architects, Data Architects from client teams, and leading technical requirements gathering sessions and writing technical requirements documents.
• Leading technical design sessions and writing technical design documents
• Managing the technical delivery of integrations and custom extensions
• Managing technical scope and client expectation
• Designing and managing the execution of test plans and ensuring a quality solution is delivered.
• Ability to work with developers US-Based and Offshore
• Effectively work with Project Managers, Customers, Development Leads and the Account Managers
• Educate Customer as a Salesforce.com Evangelist
• Familiarity with Force.com platform technical limitations and common technical design patterns, integration patterns and business application development patterns
• Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems
• Experience with Enterprise Integration tools.
• Demonstrated deployments of enterprise software systems using industry standard environments including XML, HTTP/HTTPS, Java, C++, and ASP.
• Willingness to travel

Preferred

• Salesforce.com Application Architect, Certified Systems Architect or

Technical Architect

• Sales Cloud or Service Cloud certifications are a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related IT discipline

The estimated base salary for this job is $165,000 - $190,000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $198,000 - $228,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

Position Level

Senior Manager

Country

United States of America