Senior Colleague Modernization Engineer

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.

The Senior Colleague Modernization Engineer (Senior Solutions Architect) is a hybrid role on SaaS Modernization projects designed to fulfill multiple functions by combining outcomes previously delivered by a Solution Architect (SA), Technical Architect (TA), and integration engineer into a single, versatile position.

The role will directly support SaaS go-lives for customers, reduce delivery duration and effort, and improve repeatability and scalability by strategically leveraging AI, automation, reusable assets, and modernization accelerators to improve delivery processes.

The Senior Colleague Modernization Engineer will play a critical role in helping customers move from highly customized legacy environments to sustainable, SaaS-aligned solutions. This includes applying AI-enabled: analysis, documentation, design validation, migration support, integration assessment, and delivery acceleration techniques to improve both customer outcomes and internal delivery efficiency.

• Perform solution design and technical architecture configuration, validation, and troubleshooting and work to automate those steps. Migration Assistant will reduce the effort required to perform these tasks in the near term.
  • The modernization engineer will define manual and time consuming steps to ensure that automation can fulfill the same outcomes. Reimagining how to achieve the outcomes more efficiently and effectively is the ultimate objective.
  • Assess Tech Mod customer environments and define SaaS-aligned target-state technical solutions.
  • Analyze existing extensions, customizations, and integrations and develop strategies to replace them with baseline product functionality or SaaS-safe alternatives.
  • Translate functional modernization requirements into technical designs, considering scalability, performance, and security
  • Lead or support modernization discovery workshops and produce solutioning outputs (e.g., scoping sheets for the build phase)
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer to customer teams so they can independently maintain implemented solutions
• Drive acceleration, repeatability and scalability by contributing to standardized, productized assets and reusable content and leveraging AI to accomplish manual and time-consuming tasks.
  • Reduce the manual workload on projects by performing technical delivery tasks that currently require SA and TA resources, capturing the essential steps, and then automating the manual steps.
    • Leverage AI and automation to speed delivery and repeatability.
    • Collaborate across work streams — discovery, content creation, data migration, integrations, and enablement.
    • Ensure key product feedback to speed and improve provisioning and configuration processes is funneled back to…