Ellucian
Enterprise Solutions Analyst (Higher Education, SIS, ERP)
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Other
🗓️ July 31st, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring an Enterprise Solutions Analyst (Higher Education, SIS, ERP) to lead the analysis, design, and modernization of enterprise solutions for higher education institutions. The role involves serving as a strategic advisor to align technology and business processes with scalable solutions, developing modernization roadmaps, and shaping methodologies that support institutional transformation.
Highlights
- Serve as a strategic advisor, analyzing business objectives and defining transformation roadmaps.
- Design comprehensive enterprise-wide architecture strategies covering business, technical, and functional needs.
- Lead cross-functional implementations including Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, and HR.
- Develop structured methodologies and best-practice frameworks to guide modernization efforts.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend scalable, innovative solutions.
- Preferred 5+ years in enterprise solutions architecture within higher education, with experience in SIS, ERP, Finance, and HR systems.
- Experience with large-scale ERP platforms, cloud architectures, integration frameworks, and enterprise data strategies preferred.
- Familiarity with architecture modeling tools and global solution deployments.
- Strong communication skills to engage executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
- Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, flexible time off, 401k matching, wellness programs, and professional development opportunities.
Enterprise Solutions Analyst (Higher Education, SIS, ERP) Full Description
Enterprise Solutions Analyst (Higher Education, SIS, ERP)
- US
- Services
- 6120
- Up to 25%
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
Our Success Services team at Ellucian is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Analyst to lead the analysis, design, and modernization of enterprise solutions for higher education institutions. This role serves as a trusted strategic advisor, ensuring that institutions align their technology, business processes, and transformation strategies with scalable, future-ready solutions that drive long-term success.
The Enterprise Solutions Analyst will assess an organization’s enterprise landscape, facilitate strategic discussions, and develop tailored modernization roadmaps. In addition to helping institutions align internal processes and integrate new technologies, this role will assist in developing structured methodologies and service frameworks that will be used across engagements. These methodologies will ensure a consistent, scalable, and repeatable approach to modernization that supports institutional transformation efforts.
Reporting directly to the Manager of the Practice, this role will contribute to the evolution of modernization services, ensuring institutions have the structure and guidance needed to navigate enterprise transformation effectively. By shaping the structure and methodologies of modernization services, this role will play a key part in elevating how institutions approach enterprise transformation.
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
Our Success Services team at Ellucian is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Analyst to lead the analysis, design, and modernization of enterprise solutions for higher education institutions. This role serves as a trusted strategic advisor, ensuring that institutions align their technology, business processes, and transformation strategies with scalable, future-ready solutions that drive long-term success.
The Enterprise Solutions Analyst will assess an organization’s enterprise landscape, facilitate strategic discussions, and develop tailored modernization roadmaps. In addition to helping institutions align internal processes and integrate new technologies, this role will assist in developing structured methodologies and service frameworks that will be used across engagements. These methodologies will ensure a consistent, scalable, and repeatable approach to modernization that supports institutional transformation efforts.
Reporting directly to the Manager of the Practice, this role will contribute to the evolution of modernization services, ensuring institutions have the structure and guidance needed to navigate enterprise transformation effectively. By shaping the structure and methodologies of modernization services, this role will play a key part in elevating how institutions approach enterprise transformation.
Where you will make an impact
- Serve as a trusted strategic advisor by analyzing business objectives, defining long-term transformation roadmaps, and ensuring institutional goals are aligned with scalable, future- ready solutions.
- Design and articulate comprehensive enterprise-wide architecture strategies, encompassing business, technical, and functional solutions from concept to execution. Provide industry-leading insights to ensure solutions drive institutional effectiveness and transformation.
- Identify and standardize solutions within the Ellucian ecosystem, ensuring alignment with best practices and the product roadmap.
- Lead cross-functional implementations, focusing on areas like Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, HR, and ensuring solutions are maximized for customer success.
- Lead executive advisory sessions, strategic service solutions workshops, and enterprise process mapping initiatives to elevate customer experience and adoption of best practices.
- Design and articulate enterprise-wide architecture strategies, encompassing business, technical, and functional solutions from concept to execution.
- Evaluate existing and emerging technologies, recommending scalable and innovative solutions that optimize institutional success.
- Develop structured methodologies, best-practice frameworks, and transformation roadmaps, ensuring institutions are strategically, operationally, and technically ready for modernization.
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose optimization strategies to improve solution effectiveness and efficiency.
- Partner with Strategic Engagement Managers and Change Management Consultants to develop governance models and modernization strategies, ensuring institutions are strategically, operationally, and technically ready for transformation.
- Connect with subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify problem areas and propose strategic IT solutions that align with business objectives.
- Ensure comprehensive IT documentation by leveraging architecture modeling tools to capture system designs, architecture decisions, solution frameworks, and best practices, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
- Act as an advisor in solution design, applying expertise in architectural theories, practices, and design methodologies.
What you will bring
- Preferred 5+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise solutions in higher education, with demonstrated expertise across Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, HR, and cross-functional enterprise technology ecosystems.
- Preferred experience with large-scale ERP platforms, cloud-based architectures, integration frameworks, and enterprise data strategies.
- Preferred comprehensive understanding of ERP solutions, SaaS transformation, and best practices for ERP deployment and optimization.
- Familiarity with architecture modeling tools and frameworks.
- Preferred experience leading global solution deployments and working with higher education institutions across various regions. Applies expertise in regulatory, compliance, and cultural nuances to optimize global solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
- Excellent relationship-building abilities, outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with a strong capacity to engage executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams—emphasizing collaboration, clarity, and follow-through.
- A positive, self-motivated, team-oriented individual with the ability to innovate and create new delivery methodologies to transform higher education effectiveness.
- Prior experience in a customer-facing position across multiple organizations
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 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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