Senior Solution Architect - D365

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Solution Architect - D365 to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

The Senior Solutions Architect works with CLA’s Marketing Technology team to support marketing and relationship management technology. The Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for translating business strategy into scalable, secure enterprise solution design in the MarTech and CRM environment.

How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Solution Architect - D365 role:

• Design and guide technology solutions that align business goals with scalable, secure, and sustainable architectures.
• Create and maintain operating procedures and technical documentation for new and existing processes, policies, and strategy.
• Participate in project teams that are either directly associated with MarTech and CRM technology or that use data from these systems.
• Assist with periodic IT security and user access for all MarTech and CRM systems as required.
• Review application demands for impact on existing configuration and identify opportunities via change management processes, inclusive of system and user acceptance testing, user training, and support documentation.
• Manage optimization related to security and data integrity for the applications and integrations.
• Work with IT and business users to identify new strategies and IT procedures to increase efficiency and enhance workflow.
• Communicate effectively and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• Strategic thinker with ability to balance long‑term vision and short‑term execution. Ability to prioritize effectively and escalate conflicts when needed.
• Highly collaborative, outcome‑driven, and comfortable managing ambiguity.
• Ability to work with large teams and a variety of people, including team members, management team members, IT and business users.
  
  

What You Will Need

• A minimum of 7 years of experience leading design of enterprise environments.
• Overall progressive work experience in marketing and relationship management systems and project management.
• Understanding cross module and downstream impacts of application configuration.
• Dynamics 365 experience preferred, not required.
• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  
  

Technical Competencies

• Strong experience planning, facilitating, documenting and managing business, functional and technical requirements.
• Strong experience in marketing and relationship management systems configuration, integration, architecture and reporting.
• Strong experience working within Agile environment and with Agile delivery tools. Azure DevOps (ADO) or Jira systems experience preferred.
  
  

Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.

The compensation range for this position in Minneapolis is: 105,600.00 – $181,000.00

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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