Principal Consultant – Education Cloud Architect
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Education Cloud Architect leading Salesforce Education Cloud transformations for higher education institutions. Designing enterprise architectures, migrations, integrations, and strategic implementation roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Education Cloud implementations and digital transformation initiatives
- Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, business sponsors, technology teams, and other client stakeholders
- Facilitate discovery workshops to understand institutional objectives, business processes, operational challenges, and future-state requirements
- Develop scalable solution designs, architecture diagrams, data models, and implementation roadmaps
- Architect solutions spanning Recruitment and Admissions, Student Success, Advising, Academic Operations, Advancement, Alumni Relations, and Constituent Engagement
- Define enterprise data architecture, governance frameworks, security models, and integration strategies across Salesforce and external systems
- Lead data migration strategy and planning from legacy student information systems and related platforms
- Provide architectural oversight across design reviews, configuration guidance, testing strategy, deployment planning, and post-production optimization
- Collaborate with technical architects, developers, business analysts, and project managers
- Drive adoption of Flow, OmniStudio, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, and other Education Cloud components
- Contribute to pre-sales activities, solution estimation, proposal development, and client presentations
- Mentor consultants and solution engineers while promoting architectural standards, delivery methodologies, and best practices
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Education Technology, or related field
- 7+ years of Salesforce platform experience
- 3+ years serving as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Lead Consultant, or equivalent leadership role
- Deep expertise in Education Cloud and higher education business processes
- Strong understanding of Education Cloud data architecture, including person accounts, relationships, affiliations, academic structures, and student lifecycle management
- Experience designing enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions involving multiple clouds, integrations, and complex data migrations
- Proven experience developing enterprise data models, security architectures, and integration frameworks
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, declarative architecture, Flow, OmniStudio, Experience Cloud, and related technologies
- Exceptional communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and consulting skills
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions and strategic roadmaps


















