Solutions Architect, Fund Administration

Aduro Advisors is looking for bright and talented individuals to join our team working to support top-tier clients in the Venture Capital & Private Equity space. The Solutions Architect at Aduro is the strategic technical partner to our sales and business development team. Your mission is to translate complex prospect requirements into scalable, dependable fund administration solutions. You are not an "order taker" who agrees to every bespoke client request; you are a consultant who champions best practices, collaborates with Product to design robust data flows, and ensures that what we sell can be executed flawlessly. You bridge the gap between a signed mandate and a successful, high-integrity go-live.

Why Aduro?

We’re not your typical fund administrators. We’re modern, innovative, and backed by deep industry experience, allowing our clients to focus on investing while we handle the details. We pride ourselves on providing our clients with thoughtful and adaptable service while leveraging best-in-class technology.

We thrive in a people-first culture where each team member can impact the success of the business. We do this by investing heavily in training and development programs, providing ample opportunities for growth, and focusing on fostering a culture of collaboration and community.

Here is the type of work you will do:

Strategic Discovery & Implementation Design

• Lead Technical Discovery Calls: Join the Sales team on high-stakes prospect calls to act as the "Technical Lead," performing deep-dives into the prospect’s current data hygiene, reporting cadence, and accounting complexities.
• LPA Translation & Scoping: Review Limited Partnership Agreements (LPAs) to identify specific technical requirements—such as unique fee hurdles, tax allocation nuances, or investor-specific reporting mandates—and bake them into the solution design.
• Bespoke Onboarding Architecture: Design a tailored Onboarding Plan for each new client that maps their specific fund lifecycle to Aduro’s delivery milestones, ensuring the transition plan accounts for upcoming capital calls or audit deadlines.
• Gap Analysis & Risk Mitigation: Identify potential "mismatches" between a client’s requested accounting treatment and Aduro’s standard operating procedures early in the sales cycle, proposing creative but scalable alternatives.

Strategic Sales Support

• Technical Discovery: Join the Sales team on high-stakes prospect calls to act as the "Technical Lead," performing deep-dives into the prospect’s current data hygiene, reporting cadence, and accounting complexities.
• o Be the point of contact for any technical fund accounting or fund operations questions that arise during the sales process across all sales opportunities
• Outcome-Based Scoping: Review the prospective client’s key documentation (LPA, investment strategy, historical reporting) to define the technical scope of work (TSOW). In collaboration with the Product Solutions Architect team:

1. TSOW to Sales to drive appropriate pricing
2. TSOW to Sales to ensure ICP discipline
3. TSOW drives Aduro Client Software Stack
4. Dynamo/FP Solution
5. Xero Solution/
6. Management Company solutions
7. Custom FundPanel solutions

• Demonstration of Solution: Collaborate with the Product Solutions Architect team to document a client onboarding plan for each client as part of the client acceptance process.
• Initial TSOW becomes the basis for client onboarding plan (COB) and timeline which incorporates client technical and operational needs to Aduro standard processes and procedures.
• Once a client signs, additional documentation is added to ensure that a complete picture of the client engagement is shared with Onboarding and ultimately the client service team.

Orchestration & Transition Management

• The "Perfect Handoff": Own the critical transition from Sales ? Onboarding ? Services, ensuring Onboarding teams have "bulletproof" requirements, clear owners, and realistic timelines.
• Join and lead client onboarding kickoff meetings and transition to the onboarding team
• Implementation Oversight: Collaborate with the Onboarding Team during the first 90 days of a client’s lifecycle, ensuring the reality of the service matches the architecture designed during the sales process.
• Feedback Loop: Collaborate with the Sales Team, Client Onboarding Team, and Ongoing Client Service team to

The salary for the Solutions Architect role will range $150,000 - $160,000. Salary is determined based on current market data and candidate experience level. Employees in this role are eligible to participate in the Aduro Bonus Program.

Perks of Working at Aduro:

• Competitive salary
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k with Employer Match
• Company-wide social events and programs
• Dog-friendly office in downtown Denver

• Accounting Fluency: You must "speak" fund accounting and develop a deep understanding of Aduro service processes. An active CPA or background in Fund Accounting is highly preferred.
  • 7+ years of fund accounting experience preferred
  • Audit or Tax firm experience a plus
• Systems Thinking: Deep experience with Fund Admin tech stacks and how data moves between them.
• Requirement Crispness: The ability to take a vague client request ("We need better reporting") and turn it into a precise technical or operational requirement.
• Outcome Bias: A relentless focus on whether a solution will actually work in production, rather than just looking good in a slide deck.

What “great” looks like:

• High-Fidelity Profiles: Sales-to-Onboarding handoffs that require zero "re-discovery" or clarification calls.
• Minimal "Day 2" Fires: New clients who move through their first quarter-end reporting cycle without technical escalations.