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[Remote] Sr. Consultant

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Accela is seeking a Senior Consultant for its Professional Services team. The role partners with customer stakeholders to elicit and document requirements, configure enterprise software, coordinate cross-functional implementation work, and support testing and go-live readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Lead structured requirements for elicitation activities including workshops, interviews, and working sessions with customer stakeholders
  • Facilitate discussions to uncover business goals, pain points, constraints, and success criteria, ensuring alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Document and validate functional and non-functional requirements, business rules, assumptions, and dependencies
  • Translate business requirements into implementation-ready artifacts such as process flows, requirements, and user stories
  • Develop current state and future state business process flows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and improvement opportunities
  • Use business process flows as facilitation and decision-support artifacts to align stakeholders and guide solution design and implementation
  • Perform system configuration aligned to approved requirements and Accela best practices
  • Partner with technical, data, and integration teams to define, clarify, and coordinate technical requirements and dependencies
  • Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring intent, constraints, and impacts are clearly understood
  • Guide customers toward standard solutions and best practices while balancing business needs, scope, and technical considerations
  • Collaborate with Project Managers to manage scope, identify risks early, and support informed decision-making
  • Support testing and validation activities including UAT planning, defect triage, and resolution coordination
  • Contribute to go-live readiness activities by validating configuration completeness, business process alignment, and operational readiness

Skills

  • 3-5 years' experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, and stakeholder facilitation within complex implementation projects
  • Experience developing and using business process flows (e.g., current-state and future-state) to facilitate stakeholder alignment and support solution design
  • Hands-on experience configuring enterprise software solutions based on discovery requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively with cross-functional technical teams
  • Experience documenting requirements using industry-standard techniques such as process modeling, use cases, or user stories
  • Ability to think conceptually while maintaining attention to detail in configuration and documentation
  • Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to recommend practical, best-practice solutions
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and guide both business and technical stakeholders
  • Experience working within defined project scope and supporting change control discussions
  • Comfort in operating in fast-paced, multi-stakeholder delivery environments
  • Previous professional services or consulting experience (Big 5 consulting a plus)
  • Government or public-sector domain expertise
  • Mentoring or coaching experience to other consultants on facilitation techniques, documentation standards, and customer engagement practices
  • Experience documenting and communicating cross functional workflows to support technical design and integration planning

Benefits

  • Eligible for an annual bonus target; this is a discretionary bonus awarded based on company and individual goal achievement.
  • 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
  • Other well-being benefits

Company Overview

  • Accela provides market-leading solutions that help governments to modernize and build thriving communities. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.accela.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Accela has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 7 in 2024, 10 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 17 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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