Managing Consultant Public Services Senior Salesforce Architect (Higher Education)

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London - UK

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 3 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Managing Consultant

  • Join a team where youre trusted to shape your own path manage your time and influence real change for our clients and communities.
  • Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based inclusive environment that values excellence innovation and curiosity.  
  • Be part of a team actively shaping the Public Services sector and tackling issues that impact our everyday lives 
  • Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support coaching and mentoring 

What Youll Do

  • Be a visionary technology lead for our Higher Education digital transformations. You will be architecting the digital backbone of modern universities leveraging the Salesforce Education Cloud to design scalable high-performance solutions that enable institutions to provide a seamless 360-degree student experience.
  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture and delivery for Salesforce implementations.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to university executives and IT leads translating academic business needs (e.g. student success admissions advancement) into robust technical blueprints.
  • Establish coding standards and best practices for the development team. You will mentor and guide more junior developers.
  • Stay at the forefront of Salesforce releases to propose innovative ways for universities to use AI and data.

Qualifications :

What Youll Need

  • 8 years of Salesforce experience with at least 3 years in an Architect capacity and experience.
  • Understanding of the Higher Education sector and the specific nuances of the Education Cloud.
  • An established network of senior stakeholders in the Higher Education sector with a proven ability to build and grow long-term client partnerships.
  • Commercial acumen with a track record of developing and selling consulting propositions.
  • Salesforce Certified Application or System Architect; Education Cloud Consultant.
  • Experience with cross-cloud Salesforce implementations integrated with other cloud and on-premise systems.
  • A solid understanding of the architectural principles of cloud-based platforms including SaaS PaaS multitenancy multitiered infrastructure integration patterns and application servers.
  • Experience with release management source control and deployment technologies such as CI/CD pipelines Metadata API and integration services.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical academic stakeholders.

Additional Information :

Assessment process

Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.

  • Introductory Call with one of our senior Talent Acquisition partners to explore your background the opportunity and PA. 
  • Round 1: 3x competency interviews allowing you to meet different members of PA. 
  • Final Round: Business plan presentation with PA leaders you will be given guidance and time to prepare in advance. 

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams and support our communities to deliver insight and impact solving the worlds most complex challenges. Were focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
  • Generous company pension scheme 
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
  • Annual performance-based bonus 
  • PA share ownership 
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn) 

Were committed to advancing equality. We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Hybrid Working - Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on client site. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process at either application or interview please contact us on 

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Employment Type :

Full-time

Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Managing ConsultantJoin a team where youre trusted to shape your own path manage your time and influence real change for our clients and communities.Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based inclusive environment that values excell...
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