Managing Consultant - Public Services - Senior Salesforce Architect (Higher Education)

PA Consulting Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Managing Consultant to drive digital transformations in Higher Education. The successful candidate will architect solutions using Salesforce to enhance student experiences and collaborate with academic stakeholders. Candidates should have over 8 years of Salesforce experience, including significant architecture expertise, alongside a strong understanding of the Higher Education sector. This role offers a flexible work environment with hybrid working options.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus bonus days

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Salesforce experience, including 3 years in an Architect capacity.
• Understanding of the Higher Education sector and Salesforce Education Cloud.
• Proven ability to build long-term client partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Architect digital transformations for Higher Education using Salesforce.
• Own technical delivery for Salesforce implementations.
• Establish coding standards and mentor junior developers.

Skills

Salesforce experience

Architecture in Education sector

Client partnership development

Communication with non-technical stakeholders

Education

Salesforce Certified Application or System Architect

Education Cloud Consultant

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Metadata API

Job description

Managing Consultant - Public Services - Senior Salesforce Architect (Higher Education)

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Managing Consultant?

• Join a team where you're 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 You’ll 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 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 You’ll 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. It's 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 world’s most complex challenges. We're 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.

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)

We’re 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 [e-mail]