Ellucian
Cloud Transition Manager
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Cloud Transition Manager. This role involves leading technical transition planning, coordinating platform readiness, and ensuring governance alignment throughout the cloud onboarding lifecycle. The manager collaborates with engineering, platform, and delivery teams early in onboarding to manage environments and dependencies, reduce risks, and facilitate smooth transition into cloud and SaaS environments.
Highlights
- Lead technical transition planning and platform readiness coordination for cloud onboarding.
- Represent cloud transition in pre-planning and onboarding to support environment strategy and technical readiness.
- Identify technical dependencies, sequence requirements, and manage platform constraints.
- Coordinate technical activities across cross-functional teams to provision and ready environments.
- Translate onboarding milestones into structured technical plans aligned with lifecycle readiness.
- Manage and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies; escalate as needed.
- Provide technical input for readiness checkpoints and go/no-go decisions.
- Document technical activities and decisions for governance and audit compliance.
- Bring over 4 years leading or supporting complex technical initiatives involving cloud or SaaS platforms.
- Require excellent communication, strong analytical skills, and ability to operate independently and coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
Cloud Transition Manager Full Description
About Ellucian
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.
About the Opportunity
The Cloud Transition Manager is responsible for technical transition planning, platform readiness coordination, and governance alignment across the cloud onboarding lifecycle. This role ensures that environments, platforms, and technical dependencies are properly sequenced and governed to support successful transition into cloud and SaaS environments.
As an early technical resource engaged during onboarding, you will work across engineering, platform, and delivery teams to ensure readiness, reduce risk, and enable predictable execution.
Where you will make an impact:
- Represent the cloud transition function in pre-planning and onboarding activities to support environment strategy and technical readiness
- Support planning efforts by identifying technical dependencies, sequencing requirements, and platform constraints
- Coordinate technical activities across cross-functional teams to ensure environments are provisioned and ready for use
- Translate onboarding milestones into structured technical plans aligned to lifecycle readiness
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies; escalate when appropriate
- Contribute to readiness checkpoints and provide technical input into go / no-go decisions
- Ensure technical activities and decisions are documented and traceable to support governance and audit requirements
- Collaborate across teams to align execution and maintain visibility into technical progress and readiness
What you will bring:
- 4+ years of experience leading or supporting complex technical initiatives involving cloud platforms, SaaS environments, or large-scale system transitions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Must demonstrate a working knowledge of provisioning environments and sequencing technical requirements and dependencies across complex systems
- Strong understanding of environment provisioning, platform readiness, and technical dependency management
- Ability to translate high-level milestones into structured, executable technical plans
- Experience coordinating work across multiple technical teams and domains
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks early and drive resolution
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and execution discipline
- Experience working in structured or governance-driven environments is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently while coordinating across multiple stakeholders
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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