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Salesforce Senior Solution Consultant: Business Analyst

Guidehouse Open · verified Sep 27, 2026
Remote Any location Full-time Senior Solutions & Sales Engineering

At a glance

Senior Solutions & Sales Engineering role at Guidehouse. Remote, United States of America · full-time · $106,000–$176,000 base.

SalaryStated by Guidehouse
$106,000 – $176,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
RoleSolutions & Sales Engineering
SenioritySenior
LocationAny location
WorkplaceRemote
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$106,000–$176,000
PostedSep 24, 2026 · 5d ago
Role brief

growthroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Shape Salesforce solutions from presales through delivery, aligning architecture with federal customer outcomes
  • Review program direction, delivery approaches, and key artifacts to keep complex engagements maintainable
  • Lead discovery, capture business requirements, write user stories, and produce functional system designs
  • Explain complex technology choices, emerging tools, and recommended future-state processes to varied stakeholders
  • Spot risks early, guide resolution, and contribute to internal consulting initiatives and shared expertise

What you bring

  • At least five years of professional experience plus a bachelor's degree or qualifying alternative experience
  • Deep Salesforce configuration and architecture experience, including target-state design and capability-gap resolution
  • Background in public-sector digital transformation, application design, and development
  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and retain a Federal or DoD SECRET clearance

Who this fits

This role suits a senior Salesforce architect who can move between presales advising, delivery oversight, discovery, and client presentations. You should be comfortable teaching complex concepts, documenting processes with diagrams and wireframes, and influencing stakeholders across a large organization. The job is remote within the United States, requires up to 10% travel, and may involve travel up to 25%. Active SECRET clearance is preferred.

From the employer

Job Family:

SAAS/PAAS/Cloud Consulting


Travel Required:

Up to 10%


Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

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%

The annual salary range for this position is $106,000.00-$176,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.


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

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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