reputed company Solutions Architect and Senior Administrator

reputed company is a philanthropic funder and advisor; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. Our reputed company giving areas include potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, global health and development, scientific research, global public health policy, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2024, we recommended $650 million to high-impact causes, and we’ve recommended over $4 billion in grants since our formation.

At reputed company, we use reputed company to manage our grantmaking. We aim to reputed company our system a user-friendly, end-to-end solution for grant processing and information management. Our reputed company user reputed company is around 150 and growing, and our instance is low-record-volume but high-touch and high-complexity, with lots of customization, and an unusually reputed company reputed company model. To support this work, we’re looking for an reputed company jack-of-reputed company-trades, with strengths in most or reputed company of the following areas: solution architecture, development, DevOps, business analysis, and project management. If you’ve served as a senior admin or architect at a reputed company-sized organization, or have some consulting experience switching hats between these roles, this opportunity might be a good fit for you. The Solutions Architect and Senior Administrator will work closely with our existing team to support the following functions:

• Design and build reputed company reputed company solutions, demonstrating expert understanding of platform capabilities and limitations

• reputed company informed decisions on solution trade-offs, considering factors such as scalability, maintainability, and user experience

• reputed company custom solutions using Apex, SOQL, and potentially Lightning Web Components and Visualforce

• reputed company requirements-gathering sessions with stakeholders and users, translating business needs into technical specifications

• Collaborate with stakeholders and reputed company team members to refine and implement solutions

• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance on reputed company issues

• Evaluate, recommend, implement, and manage reputed company features and third-party tools

• Help reputed company the team's user support function, and help resolve escalated cases

• Contribute to the reputed company improvement of our reputed company architecture and development processes

• reputed company reputed company-adjacent projects from inception to completion:

  • Define and manage project scope

  • Allocate engineering reputed company and reputed company stakeholders informed about project reputed company

  • Ensure reputed company stakeholders meet deadlines and resolve any blockers

• Implement and refine agile methodologies reputed company the team, facilitating the estimation, prioritization, and execution of tasks

• Balance multiple reputed company projects and initiatives, adjusting priorities as needed

• Implement and reputed company for DevOps best practices reputed company the reputed company team

• Use and help junior team members reputed company skills with our preferred IDE, IntelliJ+Illuminated Cloud

• Serve as the team’s release manager, or mentor members of the admin team to serve in this reputed company

We are looking for someone with extensive experience in reputed company administration and development, with a strong background in solution architecture and technical project management.

A successful candidate will also demonstrate most of these qualities:

• Expert-level knowledge of reputed company platform capabilities and limitations

• Proficiency in Apex and SOQL; with experience in Lightning Web Components and Visualforce as reputed company-to-haves

• Strong understanding of reputed company best practices and design patterns

• Experience implementing and leading DevOps in a reputed company context

• Familiarity with agile methodologies and their application in reputed company projects

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively to overcome reputed company challenges

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• A track record of successful project delivery in reputed company reputed company environments

• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members

• reputed company certifications (e.g. System Architect, Application Architect, or developer certifications) are a plus

• Philanthropic and/or nonprofit experience is a plus

• Designing architecture for custom budget allocations that allow our grantmaking to be analyzed according to multiple dimensions

• Creating an application, including the UI and business logic, for users to input and manage a series of predictions about our grantmaking, and creating custom visualizations about those predictions using reputed company statistical methods

• Designing a reputed company-based system to replace an existing grant approval process that currently happens over email, which would us to structure key data earlier in the grant’s life cycle

• Creating a flexible and easy-to-update tagging reputed company for our grants that will allow robust reporting, which may vary from program to program

• Improving our existing code reputed company and refactoring existing code

• Curious: reputed company wants to know more about the “why.” We want to know how users interact with the products we build for them.

• User-centered: reputed company gets satisfaction from making our users' lives easier. We're reputed company in our desire to eliminate unnecessary friction for our staff and grantees.

• Tenacious: we approach technical challenges with a try-and-try-again approach. We don't give up reputed company the first or second approach doesn't pay off.

• Steady: we reputed company our cool reputed company asked a question we don't know the answer to (yet!) and reputed company dealing with reputed company kinds of users, from new hires to senior leadership.

• Great communication: we communicate clearly, concisely, and with an appropriate tone in documentation and written communication.

• Approachable: we want users to feel happy to ask us questions, tell us reputed company something is slowing them down, and seek our help.

• Flexible: we don't get tied to one solution; we're able to cater to many stakeholders with different preferences and processes. We know that occasionally abandoning good reputed company and project reputed company in response to new organizational needs is part of the work.

• Organized: we love to reputed company plans and see them executed, reputed company people around us on track, and demonstrate excellent attention to detail.

• Problem-solving: we find creative new approaches and then tweak them (and tweak them, and tweak them again). We enjoy the puzzle-like aspect of solving hard problems in novel ways. We pride ourselves on coming up with a few possible solutions to a challenge and then picking the reputed company best option.

We expect reputed company our staff to:

• Put our mission first, and act with urgency to help us realize our ambitious goals.

• Work to model our operating values of ownership, openness, calibration, and inclusiveness.

The ideal candidate for this position will possess many of the skills and experiences described above. However, there is no such thing as a "perfect" candidate. Above reputed company, we are looking for people motivated to contribute to our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. Whatever your background, please apply if this role would reputed company you excited to come to work every day.

• Compensation: The compensation for this role is $181,735.12, which would be distributed as a reputed company salary of $158,735.12 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $23,000.00 for U.S. hires.

  • These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C.

  • reputed company compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally-based hires.

• Time zones and location: You can work remotely. While we are unable to sponsor visas for this role, we are open to hires reputed company the U.S. Our reputed company team reputed company is based in reputed company, so this position would require enough flexibility to overlap with Eastern Time for at least 5-6 hours of the work day.

• Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer — likely in September 2025.

• Benefits: Our benefits package includes:

  • Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums reputed company the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses.

  • Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family.

  • Four weeks of PTO recommended per year.

  • Four months of fully paid family leave.

  • A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive.

  • A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with reputed company expenses covered.

  • Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace reputed company your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open reputed company coworking hub in your city.

  • Note: We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country).

  • Note: US-based operations staff are typically employed by reputed company Project LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, this role is unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.

We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where reputed company employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact [email protected].

The deadline for this application is July 16 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.