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Ellucian

Senior Integration Engineer (Senior Consultant)

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ January 22nd, 2025

CI/CD ETL SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Ellucian is hiring a Senior Integration Engineer (Senior Consultant). This role involves leading integration development projects to support business capabilities in higher education, ensuring that technology solutions align with enterprise strategies, and maintaining well-integrated modernization technology ecosystems. The position also requires managing service architecture, integrating multiple products across enterprises, and adhering to best practices and client IT governance.

Highlights
  • Requirements Gathering and Architecture Design
  • Proficiency in APIs, ETL, middleware, and integration patterns
  • Expertise in web service development with REST and SOAP
  • 5+ years of experience in system architecture and ERP integration
  • Experience with ESB platforms like MuleSoft, Oracle SOA, etc.
  • Familiarity with Java, NodeJS, React.js frameworks
  • Comprehensive health coverage and flexible time off
  • 401k with match and educational assistance program
  • Provide mentorship to junior developers
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Senior Integration Engineer (Senior Consultant) Full Description

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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
The Ellucian Professional Services team is seeking an energetic, dynamic, and collaborative Senior Integration Engineer (Senior Consultant) to help customers build integration infrastructure to help our SaaS and Data Integration strategy. This impactful and visible role requires someone who can build great relationships and strategies for Ethos Integration, the central nervous system of the modern Higher Education-connected campus.

As Senior Integration Engineer (Senior Consultant), you will lead integration development projects, supporting the business capabilities that provide core functionality in running the client business higher education businesses. You will analyze business requirements and ensure implemented integrations are effectively integrated into the modernization technology ecosystem. You will ensure that the technology solutions delivered are aligned with enterprise strategies and adhere to target reference architectures by applying sound architectural principles & best practices and following client’s IT governance processes and guidelines. This role is critical as we build our next-generation services and capabilities to mature our solution on the cloud. This role will assist our key technology strategy while directly responsible for service architecture, which integrates several of our products/solutions across the enterprise. This is a high-impact and high-visibility opportunity to bring your expertise and make a difference.

Where you will make an impact
  • Requirements Gathering: Schedule and conduct meetings with customer representatives to understand and capture detailed business requirements, ensuring accuracy for downstream phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Architecture Design: Propose scalable and efficient system architectures that align with Ellucian’s product direction, are cost-effective, and meet customer needs.
  • Technology Selection: Identify and select appropriate technologies for integration solutions, taking into account the constraints of the client’s environment and system requirements.
  • Integration Implementation: Design and implement integration solutions that connect ERP systems with other enterprise applications, databases, and third-party systems, ensuring seamless data exchange.
  • Project Guidance & Coordination: Provide ongoing project guidance, managing coordination with offshore resources to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget constraints.
  • Documentation & Reporting: Prepare concise, detailed technical documents that accurately describe project requirements, design specifications, and integration processes.
  • Collaboration & Teamwork: Collaborate with a team of developers to architect, build, and test integration solutions in accordance with prepared specifications. Ensure alignment across the team and with stakeholders.
  • Estimation: Prepare accurate estimates for integration work and contribute to prioritizing the backlog.
  • Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting: Apply strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex integration issues and perform root cause analysis on system performance or application problems.
  • Mentorship: Provide mentorship to junior developers, assisting in skill development and best practices within the team.
  • Continuous Learning: Stay up to date with Ellucian applications and emerging technologies, constantly improving integration practices and solutions.
 
What you will bring
  • 5+ years of experience in system architecture, ERP integration, and enterprise-level application design. 
  • Technical knowledge:
    • Integration Technologies:
      • Expertise in APIs, ETL processes, middleware, and integration patterns.
      • Experience integrating ERP systems (e.g., Ellucian, SAP, Oracle) with enterprise systems, databases, and third-party apps.
    • Development Frameworks:
      • Familiarity with Java,NodeJS, React.js, and similar application development frameworks.
    • Web Service Development & Integration:
      • Experience with REST, SOAP, JMS messaging, Request/Reply, and Publish/Subscriber models.
    • Integration Architecture:
      • Knowledge of complex integration architecture and design.
      • Hands-on experience with ESB platforms (MuleSoft ESB, Oracle SOA/OSB, IBM Websphere ESB, Microsoft BizTalk).
    • SOA Architecture & API Development:
      • Strong understanding of SOA architecture.
      • Experience designing and developing inbound/outbound integration interfaces (REST and SOAP services).
    • Database & Version Control:
      • Experience with SQL databases.
      • Knowledge of version control systems (GIT, SVN).
    • CI/CD: Familiar with CI/CD processes and tools.
  • Leadership skills: Experience working within both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including managing workstreams, sprints, and day-to-day project coordination Managing projects in JIRA or equivalent tools
  • Communication Skills: Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Analytical & Problem-Solving: Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to deconstruct complex technical problems and perform root cause analysis.
  • Team Skills: Proven ability to work collaboratively within large teams, driving strategic initiatives in complex environments.

Nice to have
  • ERP System Knowledge: Experience working with Ellucian products (e.g., Banner, Colleague) or other higher education ERP systems.
  • Cloud & Integration Platforms: Experience with cloud-based integration tools and platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, MuleSoft) is a plus.
  • Certifications: Relevant technical certifications in integration platforms, ERP systems, or cloud technologies are a plus
  • Any candidates with knowledge of the Ethos Platform (like Experience, Ethos Data Connect, or Ethos API platform) will be an advantage 

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. Additionally, 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.