Solutions Architect

Role Description

GiveCampus is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our Partner Operations team, where you will help more schools succeed on the GiveCampus platform — Advancing the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. This is a senior, Partner-facing technical role anchored to a simple outcome: get our Partners fully integrated with GiveCampus so they can take full advantage of our most advanced capabilities. How you get there will evolve. Today, that means:

• Becoming a trusted expert on advancement CRMs and the systems schools rely on.
• Building the tools and frameworks that make integrations effortless.
• Working directly with schools on complex data projects.

Tomorrow, it might mean:

• Building custom applications on top of the GiveCampus platform.
• Designing new ways for Partners to extend what we offer.
• Solving problems we haven't met yet.

The ideal candidate has a deep, lived understanding of how advancement teams actually operate, the technical chops to translate that understanding into elegant solutions, and the range to grow alongside what our Partners need next.

Responsibilities will include:

• Drive Partner Technical Success: Help schools fully integrate with GiveCampus and adopt our most advanced capabilities, so they hit the fundraising outcomes that matter to them — and the goals that matter to us.
• Be the Technical Voice of the Partner: Build deep relationships with advancement teams and serve as their trusted technical advisor — someone who understands their operations, anticipates their needs, and speaks fluently to both the gift officer and the IT director.
• Become a Systems Authority: Develop expert-level knowledge of the major CRMs in the advancement space (Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT, Salesforce/Affinaquest, Slate Advancement, Anthology, Ellucian Advance, and others) and the broader ecosystem of tools schools rely on — then turn that knowledge into the guidance and best practices that shape how GiveCampus integrates with all of them.
• Build What Partners Need: Take on a range of technical projects depending on where Partners need the most help — building integration tools that make data flow between systems effortless, designing custom applications on top of the GiveCampus platform, or prototyping new capabilities that deepen Partner engagement.
• Partner Across Teams: Work hand-in-hand with our Advancement Services and Platform Product & Engineering teams to surface Partner feedback, advocate for the right fixes, and inject real-world insight into roadmap decisions.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years working in or around advancement, fundraising operations, or technical Partner-facing roles at a SaaS, ed-tech, or nonprofit-serving company.
• Deep, hands-on understanding of how advancement teams operate — their workflows, their pain points, and the systems they live inside every day.
• Strong technical foundation — comfort with APIs, data modeling, integration patterns, and the kind of work that sits between Product and the customer.
• Track record of building things — tools, internal applications, integrations, frameworks — that other people actually use and rely on.
• Proven ability to translate technical concepts into accessible solutions, and to bring fundraising leaders and engineering teams along together.
• Strong desire to be a “builder” — contributing to shaping a best-in-class Partner Operations function, and willing to take on whatever is needed as the role evolves.
• Dedication to what we're building at GiveCampus, and to helping advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with one or more major advancement CRMs (Raiser's Edge NXT, Salesforce/Affinaquest, Slate, Anthology, Ellucian Advance, etc.).
• Experience working inside or alongside an advancement services or operations team at a college, university, or independent school.
• Software development experience — comfort writing scripts, prototyping internal tools, or shipping production code in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or similar.
• Startup experience, with the proven ability to “find a way” and get things done without being overly reliant on process and structure around you.
• Strong knowledge of roles and responsibilities in fundraising and development, especially at educational institutions, with prior fundraising experience ideal.
• Volunteer experience helping a school raise money or engage its alumni (e.g., as a “class agent,” “class chair/ambassador,” or “reunion committee member”).

Benefits

• Remote-first role based in the U.S.
• Flexible, distributed work with in-person connection opportunities.
• Access to a beautiful 12,000sf office in Washington, DC.
• Regular team meet-ups, visits to partner institutions, and retreats in various locations.