As the Salesforce Solution Architect at KIPP Foundation, you will serve as the primary technical authority for our Salesforce platforms—a hands-on architect and principal developer responsible for platform strategy, enterprise solution design, and delivery across KIPP’s national Salesforce ecosystem.
You will partner with technology leadership, administrators, developers, product owners, business stakeholders, and implementation partners to deliver scalable solutions across NPSP, Nonprofit Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce/Einstein AI, enterprise integrations, and DevOps governance, while maintaining high engineering standards, strong platform governance, and long-term sustainability.
Solution Architecture & Integrations
Platform Strategy & Governance
NPSP & Nonprofit Cloud
Technical Leadership & Delivery
AI, Data Cloud & Experience Cloud
Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s Core Values: Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action.
Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency; uses quantitative and qualitative data to define goals, monitor progress, address obstacles, and adjust plans so systems and workstreams achieve desired outcomes.
Work Management: Sets a clear vision for complex bodies of technical work, develops agile project plans, manages competing priorities, and ensures work is replicable through clear documentation, sustainable processes, and high-quality delivery standards.
Process Management: Develops, codifies, and improves cross-team processes that support Salesforce platform governance, release management, data quality, integration standards, and long-term system sustainability.
Data-Driven Actions and Decisions: Defines the right metrics to evaluate platform health, data quality, adoption, technical debt, delivery performance, and business outcomes; ensures critical technical decisions and recommendations are grounded in reliable data and evidence.
Problem-Solving: Addresses root causes of complex Salesforce, integration, data, and production issues; anticipates downstream risks; removes obstacles; and develops scalable, sustainable solutions that support end users and organizational priorities.
Communication and Change Management: Translates complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives and actionable plans for technical and non-technical audiences; supports change adoption through stakeholder engagement, documentation, training, and transparent communication.
Collaboration: Builds productive working relationships with technology leaders, administrators, developers, product owners, business stakeholders, implementation partners, and external consultants to deliver durable solutions aligned to shared goals.
Technical Expertise: Demonstrates deep Salesforce architecture and development expertise across NPSP, Nonprofit Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce/Einstein AI, Apex, LWC, Flows, APIs, integrations, DevOps, security, and platform governance.
Experience and Qualifications
Tools and Technologies
Certifications Required: Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect, Platform Developer II Preferred: Salesforce Certified Data Architect, Integration Architect, Nonprofit Cloud Consultant
Travel requirements: Basic Travel Expectations: Up to 5% (up to 10 days per year)
Job Type: Full time, Exempt
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $155,000-$170,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) is a national nonprofit network of tuition-free, open-enrollment public charter schools serving early childhood through high school students, primarily in underserved communities across the United States.
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