Senior Enterprise Architect

Ellucian is the world’s leading provider of software, services and insight to higher education. Ellucian helps the higher education community—students, faculty, and staff—achieve their goals more efficiently, effectively, and with reduced risk. Ellucian’s comprehensive suite of software solutions includes student information systems (SIS), finance and HR systems, recruiting and retention systems, among other offerings.

We have an immediate need for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Global IT team.

* Understand IT challenges and current state to assist formulating suitable IT strategy aligned with corporate objectives * Leading or participating in enterprise vendor, technology, and tool selection * Performing in a solution architect capacity for enterprise initiatives driven by EA * Facilitating complex design and technical discussions, reconciling differing opinions and driving the decision making process * Contribute to the growth and maturity of EA processes as the discipline evolves * Collect, deliver and present any industry best-practices * Design and deliver high-quality integration solutions that satisfy project requirements and meet enterprise needs. * Provide senior level architectural oversight on multiple IT projects simultaneously. * Deliver and manage technology proofs of concept. Interpret the results and incorporate them into technology recommendations.

* 8+ total years of professional Application, Systems, Solutions, or Enterprise Architecture experience * 5+ total years of professional Enterprise Architecture experience * Working knowledge of common architectural patterns, design patterns and best practices. * Strong experience architecting and developing integrations between 3rd party applications and internally developed systems (Onsite and cloud based) * Experience with product evaluations and selection, buy-or-build * Proven experience with various architecture disciplines, such as security, network, operations, and data architecture * Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders * Leadership skills to indirectly drive cross-functional teams towards common solutions * Working knowledge of cloud service delivery models, in particular SaaS and PaaS * Excellent analytical and problem solving skillsPreferred * Experience with ETL tools, such as Informatica * Experience integrating with Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform * Experience with AWS * Experience with identity and access management (IAM) technologies such as Okta * Strong experience in application development with web technologies