Principal Consultant - Education Cloud Architect
TELUS Digital11 hours ago
Base Salary
$100k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Education Cloud implementations and digital transformation initiatives.
- Advise executive leadership, business sponsors, and technology teams on Salesforce strategy and architecture.
- Facilitate discovery workshops and translate institutional objectives and business requirements into future-state solutions.
- Develop solution designs, architecture diagrams, enterprise data models, and implementation roadmaps.
- Architect Education Cloud solutions across recruitment and admissions, student success, advising, academic operations, advancement, alumni relations, and constituent engagement.
- Define data architecture, governance frameworks, security models, integration strategies, and data migration plans.
- Provide architectural oversight for design reviews, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production optimization.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, business analysts, and project managers to ensure delivery alignment.
- Contribute to presales, solution estimation, proposal development, and executive client presentations.
- Mentor consultants and solution engineers and promote architectural standards and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Education Technology, or a related field.
- 7+ years of Salesforce platform experience.
- 3+ years as a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Lead Consultant, or in an equivalent leadership role.
- Deep expertise in Education Cloud and higher education business processes.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions involving multiple clouds, integrations, and complex data migrations.
- 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.
- Preferred Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant, Application Architect, System Architect, or Data Cloud Consultant certifications.
- Experience with student information systems, ERP platforms, higher education technology ecosystems, enterprise data migration, modernization, presales, solution estimation, executive presentations, and large-scale program execution.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About TELUS Digital
TELUS Digital is the in-house digital product and consulting arm of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers. It designs and operates customer-facing platforms—mobile apps, websites, voice and chat interfaces—and enterprise services spanning cloud engineering, data/AI, digital marketing, QA, and operations modernization for TELUS lines of business and select partners. Headquartered in Vancouver with a distributed global team, it sits under TELUS’s public company umbrella (NYSE: TU, TSX: T).