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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Solutions Architect (Systemwide/Ellucian SIS/Higher Education) - **Company:** Ellucian - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Application Integration Architecture, Software as a Service, Data Migration, Student Information Systems, Systems Integration - **Published:** May 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=907b923f53372bcf ## About the Role Do you have experience in Workshop facilitation?, * 10+ years of solution architecture and delivery experience in consulting or professional services, including leadership on large, complex programs. * Demonstrated success leading enterprise or system-wide higher education implementations across multiple schools/campuses or complex governance structures. * Deep expertise across higher education enterprise domains (preferably Ellucian), such as Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, HR, and adjacent ecosystems. * Strong technical and functional fluency in SaaS architectures, ERP ecosystems, integrations, data migration, reporting/analytics, and security considerations. * Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities-while maintaining delivery momentum. * Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts to technical teams and executive audiences with clarity and confidence. * Strong customer presence; skilled at building trust, facilitating workshops, driving decisions, and navigating ambiguity in high-visibility programs. * A practical, outcomes-oriented approach to architecture-balancing "what's ideal" with "what will work" to deliver measurable results. ## Description Ellucian's Professional Services team is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to serve as the architectural delivery lead for our most complex higher education implementations-typically system-wide programs spanning multiple institutions, campuses, or schools. In this role, you will own the end-to-end solution architecture across a broad Ellucian portfolio, guiding strategy through execution to ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned to measurable institutional outcomes. This position is delivery-first and requires deep experience leading large, cross-functional programs. You may lead a team of Solutions Architects on major engagements (matrix leadership) and act as the primary architectural escalation point for program leadership, project teams, and executive stakeholders. While the role may support select presales activities, the primary focus is driving delivery excellence and client success. In addition, the Senior Solutions Architect is expected to provide thought leadership by contributing to global standards, practices, and reusable IP that improve delivery consistency, accelerate time-to-value, increase client satisfaction, and elevate the overall client experience. Where you will make an impact System-Wide Delivery Leadership * Serve as the lead architect for large-scale, system-wide implementations spanning multiple schools/campuses and complex stakeholder environments. * Translate institutional goals into an executable architecture approach that balances outcomes, risk, cost, timeline, and long-term operability. * Establish architectural guardrails and decision frameworks; drive alignment across functional, technical, data, integration, reporting, and security workstreams. * Act as the architectural escalation point for complex delivery challenges and competing priorities. Architecture Strategy & Solution Delivery * Design and guide delivery of scalable end-to-end solutions across Ellucian products and platforms, maximizing configuration, extensibility, and SaaS best practices. * Ensure solution architecture aligns with customer goals, Ellucian product direction, and delivery standards-while remaining realistic and implementable. * Lead/guide architecture artifacts and reviews (e.g., solution architecture, integration architecture, environment approach, data and reporting strategy). * Drive consistent adoption of delivery methodologies (Agile), tooling, and governance practices that improve predictability and quality. Engagement Oversight & Execution * Partner with Project Managers, delivery leaders, Product Owners, and Enterprise Architects to align plan, dependencies, resourcing, and execution approach. * Lead discovery and architecture design activities (including workshops), ensuring requirements, process alignment, and solution fit are fully understood. * Identify and mitigate delivery risks early (scope, complexity, integration, data readiness, change impacts), and support strong governance and decision-making. * Ensure solutions are implemented as designed, with appropriate traceability, quality controls, and readiness for go-live and sustained support. Team Leadership & Enablement (Matrix) * Lead and coordinate a team of Solutions Architects on large programs, setting architectural direction, reviewing work products, and ensuring consistency. * Mentor and coach architects and cross-functional team members on standards, patterns, and delivery practices to raise overall capability and quality. * Promote a culture of collaboration, clarity, and accountability across distributed teams and stakeholders. Presales & Solutioning Support (As Needed) * Provide strategic solutioning support during presales, including discovery, scoping, estimating, and solution approach input for proposals and statements of work. * Help articulate value, trade-offs, and ROI to executive stakeholders, grounding recommendations in institutional outcomes and delivery reality. Standards, Methodology & Reusable IP (Thought Leadership) * Contribute to and help evolve Ellucian's global architecture repository through reference architectures, patterns, templates, playbooks, and governance frameworks. * Identify repeatable delivery improvements and create reusable assets that accelerate execution, reduce risk, and improve client experience. * Share lessons learned and best practices through communities of practice, enablement content, and coaching-scaling impact beyond individual projects. ## Related Videos - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Swapping a Data Warehouse at Runtime: Zero-Downtime Migration Without Changing a Single Client](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100311-swapping-a-data-warehouse-at-runtime-zero-downtime-migration-without-changing-a-single-client) - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [AI Agents & Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2017-ai-agents-agentic-ai) - [What If We Designed Employee Experience Like a Customer Journey?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1824-what-if-we-designed-employee-experience-like-a-customer-journey) - [Developer Tools for Microsoft Azure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/450-developer-tools-for-microsoft-azure) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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