Salesforce Solution Architect - Chicago, United States - Huron Consulting Group Inc.

Huron Consulting Group Inc.

Verified Company

Chicago, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

The Opportunity

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.

Position Summary

Senior Associates play an integral client-facing project or work-stream leadership role. While activities vary based on project size/scope and individual skill-sets and strengths, the Sr.

Associate can expect to spend their time with a heavy focus on material client interaction through all projects, project management, intensive data-analysis and the identification for the "so-what's" therein, and to creating compelling client-ready presentations.

Additionally, the Sr. Associate will focus on developing Analysts and Coachees.

Qualifications:

The Opportunity

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.

Position Summary

Job Description/Responsibilities:

Design and document an endtoend Salesforce solution in the Advancement RM managed package.
Lead projects through requirements definition and solution design phases and write solution design documents.
Lead reporting workstreams for standard Salesforce reports and dashboards to implement reporting solutions that meet common advancement use cases (e.g., lists, comprehensive campaigns, development officer metrics, alumni engagement, annual giving, prospect management, etc.).
Partner with the technical architect/data conversion lead to ensure accurate data mapping from legacy source system to target system and/or be able to lead a business analyst in supporting this work.
Contribute to every phase of the project lifecycle, including development, testing, and deployment (leveraging best practices in release management and devops, as directed by a technical architect).
Effectively work with comprehensive project teams, including project managers, business analysts, technical architects, customers, developers, and engagement leads.
Manage scope and client expectations, escalating risks and issues to project leadership proactively.
Design and manage the execution of user acceptance testing and ensure a quality solution is delivered.
Lead knowledge transfer activities and support development of training materials.

Relevant Skills and Experience:

Demonstrated leadership experience within an advancement organization or on Advancement implementations.
Proven ability to design and optimize advancement business processes and to integrate these business processes across disparate systems.
5 or more years of experience managing external client projects in positions of increasing responsibility in the delivery of business consulting and systems development; or a handson role in an implementation of the Advancement RM managed package.
Knowledge of enterprise systems, CRM, SFA, and ERP.
Direct knowledge of Affinaquest Advancement RM.
Minimum certification required: Salesforce Certified Administrator

Posting Category

Generalist

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America