The Solution Architect / Senior Solution Architect is a dual-impact leader across presales and delivery, responsible for shaping, scoping, and aligning complex engagements to position federal customers for long-term success as a trusted advisor.
This role drives architectural strategy from initial solutioning through execution, ensuring mission-critical programs are set up to deliver measurable outcomes
Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform
Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise
Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
Expert in Salesforce configuration and architectural strategy, translating current-state complexity into clear target-state designs, closing capability gaps, and delivering solutions that enable achievement of critical business and mission outcomes
Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
A great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles
Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leader