Are you tenacious, pragmatic, with a keen sense of humor? You just might be an Idealist.
At Idealist Consulting , we help organizations grow through Salesforce implementation, managed services, and custom application development. We are innovators and problem-solvers committed to global progressive action; delivering innovative technical solutions to empower organizations working on some of the world's most important causes and aspire to do no harm and benefit all.
As a Salesforce for Nonprofits: Solution Architect you will lead the delivery of Salesforce implementation projects through thoughtful assessment of client requirements. You’ll envision system design, data structure, integrations, UI/UX to support user stories.
How You'll Contribute
- Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform and product ecosystem
- Provide sales opportunity support including product demos, sales discovery, and advice on estimates as requested.
- Articulate and document the benefits and risks to a solution’s feasibility and functionality to clients and sales reps
- Contribute solution expertise to RFI and RFP responses as assigned
- Lead Solution Architecture and project solution vision in the Idealist Way
- Lead discovery process with clients using Story Navigator to determine ERD, need for custom code, and application integrations
- Plan sprints and support data mapping
- Oversee UAT and contribute to test script documentation and bug fixes as needed
- Develop and document user instructions and administrative maintenance requirements for use in our custom-coded Salesforce solutions for clients
- Conduct project audits, architecture reviews, and provide cure recommendations as assigned
- Advise on best practices and support service delivery quality and practice consistency through the creation of process templates, mentorship and knowledge sharing.
- Stay up to date on third party applications and report on high level functionality, use case, and integration capacity
- Follow and understand new Salesforce product and technical capabilities resulting from product releases and acquisitions, make recommendations for R&D
- Some travel to meet with clients and participate in pre-sales engagements may be required
- Maintain target utility 70%
Your Background Includes
- Minimum 3 years Salesforce certified Advanced Administrator or Platform Developer
- Minimum 5 years experience as a Business Analyst
- Extensive experience with Enterprise technology implementations
- Understanding of key concepts that support user focused design and design thinking
- Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and integrate business processes across disparate systems
- Excellent client-facing written and oral communicat