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Travel Required:

Clearance Required:

What You Will Do:

• 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 leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

• Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives

• Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization

• Application design and development background

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

What You Will Need:

• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of professional experience

• Bachelor's degree (Relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree)

• Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

• U.S. citizenship is contractually required

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "SECRET" security clearance

• Candidates with an ACTIVE "SECRET" or higher-level clearance are preferred

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Hands-on experience with Public Sector Solutions (“Agentforce Public Sector”)

• Hands-on experience with Omni Studio

• Selected candidate may travel up to 25%

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend