Ellucian
Principal Business Enterprise Architect
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ February 4th, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Principal Business Enterprise Architect. The role demands shaping technology modernization across higher education, supporting global enterprise architecture practices, and aligning customer strategic initiatives with required capabilities through Ellucian solutions. The architect leads strategic alignment, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to developing adaptable, scalable higher education capability models.
Highlights
- Lead strategic alignment for customer modernization engagements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and broader enterprise architecture.
- Maintain detailed architectural designs and best practices documentation.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF required.
- Proficiency in cloud computing, data architecture, and software development needed.
- 5+ years of experience as an Enterprise Architect or similar role desired.
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
- 401k with match and professional development opportunities offered.
- Flexible time off and comprehensive wellness programs.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Archimate) are a plus.
Principal Business Enterprise Architect Full Description
Principal Business Enterprise Architect (TOGAF, Archimate experience)
US
Services
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
As a Principal Business Enterprise Architect at Ellucian, you will play a pivotal role in shaping technology modernization across higher education. The Enterprise Architect supports our global enterprise architecture practice to build and enable our capability-based delivery models that drive modernization engagements across our client initiatives. Serving as the overall enterprise architecture thought leader for our Managed Transformation Services teams, the Principal Business Enterprise Architect uses the global higher education reference models to align the customer’s strategic initiatives to the capabilities required to achieve those goals through the industry standard business processes enabled by Ellucian solutions.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
As a Principal Business Enterprise Architect at Ellucian, you will play a pivotal role in shaping technology modernization across higher education. The Enterprise Architect supports our global enterprise architecture practice to build and enable our capability-based delivery models that drive modernization engagements across our client initiatives. Serving as the overall enterprise architecture thought leader for our Managed Transformation Services teams, the Principal Business Enterprise Architect uses the global higher education reference models to align the customer’s strategic initiatives to the capabilities required to achieve those goals through the industry standard business processes enabled by Ellucian solutions.
Where you will make an impact
- Strategic Alignment: Lead the strategic alignment of customer modernization engagements by modeling a customer’s strategic initiatives to the capabilities required to achieve those goals through the industry standard business processes enabled by Ellucian solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including solution architects, change management agents, services delivery consultants, product managers, project managers and others to support successful customer modernization engagements.
- Architecture Design: Collaborate with the broader enterprise architecture team and cross-organizational stakeholders to contribute to development of Ellucian’s global higher education capability model to ensure it is adaptable, scalable and meets the evolving needs of higher education institutions.
- Documentation: Maintain detailed documentation of architectural designs, standards, and best practices for internal and client use.
- Key engagements for the Enterprise Architect include:
- Collaborating with other Services Innovation leadership to support the initiatives that are building new outcomes-based delivery practices.
- Coordinating with Product/R&D as necessary to ensure alignment with capability delivery by region.
- Ensuring effective construction of enterprise architecture service engagements aimed at achievement of customers' desired outcomes.
- Providing thought leadership, best practices and higher ed industry knowledge into enterprise architecture focused practices.
- Developing related materials and artifacts that drive and support the new enterprise architecture services, where appropriate.
- Proactively engaging with global service delivery peers to assess effectiveness of new enterprise architecture services.
- Fulfilling the broader mission of global Services as it relates to global scale.
- Working collaboratively with the Services team to develop and/or improve strategies, policies, and processes; support and promote the use of new delivery methodologies and best practices.
- Understanding the global Services marketplace and delivery best practices.
- Where appropriate, establishing delivery compliance and assurance metrics and measurements along with monitoring practices.
What will you bring
- Experience – in business, technology or a higher education related field is required.
- 5+ years experience as an Enterprise Architect or equivalent type role, within higher education is a plus.
- Preferred in-depth knowledge of higher education technology trends, challenges, and best practices.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
- Proficiency in cloud computing, data architecture, and software development methodologies.
- Positive, self-motivated, team-oriented individual with the ability and desire to innovate, create, and develop delivery methodologies that have the capability of transforming the effectiveness of higher education.
- Exceptional relationship building skills supported by proven action and follow-through using strong time and project management skills.
- Superior interpersonal, written and oral communications skills with an emphasis on collaboration.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Archimate) are a plus.
What makes #Ellucianlife
- 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
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At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
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