Sr. Consultant
Accela is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our Professional Services team, supporting our Managed Application Services. This critical, customer-facing role blends strong business analysis and requirements facilitation with hands-on configuration and cross-functional coordination. The Senior Consultant partners closely with customer stakeholders to understand business objectives and desired outcomes, translating those needs into requirements, configuration decisions, and implementation artifacts that guide successful delivery.
Key responsibilities include leading structured requirements elicitation activities such as workshops, interviews, and working sessions with customer stakeholders. The role involves facilitating discussions to uncover business goals, pain points, constraints, and success criteria, ensuring alignment across diverse stakeholder groups. Additionally, the Senior Consultant documents and validates functional and non-functional requirements, business rules, assumptions, and dependencies, translating business requirements into implementation-ready artifacts such as process flows, requirements, and user stories.
Required qualifications encompass a strong background in business analysis, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder facilitation within complex implementation projects. Experience developing and using business process flows to facilitate stakeholder alignment and support solution design is essential. Hands-on experience configuring enterprise software solutions based on discovery requirements, along with the ability to coordinate effectively with cross-functional technical teams, is also required. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and guide both business and technical stakeholders, are crucial.
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000 - $120,000. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus target. Accela offers a generous benefits package, including flexible time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, family planning benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, health savings account with company contributions, flexible spending account, life, accident, and disability coverage, business travel insurance, employee assistance programs, and other well-being benefits.
Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. Our open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today while ensuring they are well prepared for the emerging challenges of the future. Joining Accela means becoming part of a team that emphasizes performance, productivity, and collaboration, offering opportunities for professional growth and development in a dynamic environment.