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From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients. \nPeople 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 attainthe best. \nJob Description \nThe 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. \nIn 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.\nThrough 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. \nRequired Skills \nExperience in enterprise-level Salesforce projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success \nDeep functional and technical expertise in the Salesforce platform, including core configuration features, data models, security, automation, reporting, integrations, and deployment practices. \nDemonstrable experience delivering solutions across the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Experience, . \nStrong requirements gathering and business analysis skills, including facilitation of discovery workshops and conversion of requirements into user stories and actionable delivery scope \nExperience 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. \nExperience integrating Salesforce with different business systems, as well as working with integration tools (ETL, SIS, finance, marketing automation, reporting, etc.) \nSalesforce 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. \nExpert level understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies \nExperience supporting solution estimates, proposals, technical solutioning, or other pre-sales and practice-development activities. \nMinimum Bachelor’s degree \nMust be authorized to work for any U.S. employer \nSalesforce Admin Certification \nDesired Skills \n6+ years direct experience in software development life cycle \n5-8 years’ experience in Salesforce configuration and implementing CRM systems \nProven experience in overseeing the direction, development, and implementation of CRM software solutions \nExperience using or implementing Kindsight Ascend or Affinaquest \nGrants Management and Foundation Connect experience is a plus. \nSpecific knowledge of CRM SaaS products; Salesforce ideal \nHigher Education, Nonprofit Cloud certifications (desired but not required) \nProject management skills and experience in managing teams \nStrong knowledge of data management, including data capture, warehousing, segmentation, storing, cleansing, and security \nStrong knowledge of CRM software quality assurance best practices and methodologies \nMust have excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem solving skills \nMust be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple workstreams \nAdditional Requirements:\nDemonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients\nExperience supporting sales and business development\nPosition requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs\nAdditional Information\nAttain 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:\nCompetitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs\n11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO)\nGenerous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting\nFlexible career paths - our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us\nA healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.\nAttain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Individual compensation will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills.\nAttain 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.\nInterested 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.\nSalary Range\n$150,000—$180,000 USD\nAttain 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. \nApplicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. 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