Colleague Technical Consultant - Remote

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 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, including data‑rich tools for 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 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Ellucian is seeking a talented individual that has strong technical, hands‑on, working knowledge of Colleague technical - Consultant role that is looking for an opportunity to continue learning and helping Ellucian customers. This role provides personalized, on‑going guidance and support for Colleague technical customer business operations post‑implementation, enabling customers to maximize value from their solutions. The role also works closely with the customer by building a relationship with their points of contact, understanding their business needs, troubleshooting and resolving operational issues, and assessing the customer’s current use of and knowledge of the Ellucian solution.

To be successful in the role, you must possess strong knowledge of Colleague application and system administration, have current hands‑on experience managing, installing, and updating Colleague applications, and have an overall understanding of Ellucian’s broad portfolio of solutions. Knowledge and current hands‑on experience of Ethos Integration, ILP, and Data Connect in addition to Colleague system administration is a plus.

• Meet regularly (typically weekly) with each customer to maintain open communication.
• Work with customer to gain an understanding of their goals, priorities, processes and challenges related to the supported applications.
• Provide guidance and assist with reviewing, planning and deploying changes and new functionality.
• Work with customers to review and modernize existing business processes, troubleshoot and resolve operational issues, provide direction on how to implement new modules or functionality in Colleague, and provide proactive communications about new functionality or defects.
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions in response to specific customer needs.
• Promote customer usage of Ellucian resources such as the Solution Center, product documentation and Communities.

• A minimum of 3-5 years of Ellucian product technical experience working in a customer‑facing role within an Ellucian software environment
• Hands‑on experience providing technical support for Colleague
• In depth experience patching and upgrading Colleague and technical administration of Colleague and related technology in the Colleague ecosystem
• Single Sign‑on Configuration/Support (SSO) including CAS and SAML2 protocols
• Ellucian Ethos Integration configuration and administration
• Colleague architecture and data layers
• Uni Data administration, operation and maintenance
• Microsoft SQL Server database administration (DBA)
• SQL & Microsoft T‑SQL
• Shell scripting
• A strong focus on customer service
• Taking initiative and delivering on commitments to customers
• Working independently on many concurrent…