[Remote] Senior Solutions Architect (Systemwide/Ellucian SIS/Higher Education)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ellucian is a company that powers innovation for higher education, serving approximately 3,000 customers globally. They are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead architectural delivery for complex higher education implementations, ensuring solutions are scalable and aligned with institutional outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible time off
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
• Headspace Care (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program
• Professional development opportunities
• LinkedIn Learning

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