Ellucian
Senior Solutions Consultant |Banner Student | Remote
SaaS
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Ellucian is hiring a Senior Solutions Consultant |Banner Student | Remote. The role involves serving as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert with deep expertise in Banner Student, supporting institutions through the student lifecycle and helping align presales engagements with realistic delivery and change outcomes. The consultant will participate in discovery, demonstrations, and collaborate closely with sales and services teams to reduce risk and support institutional modernization with Ellucian's SaaS solutions.
Highlights
- Serve as a Banner Student subject matter expert supporting full student lifecycle from admissions through completion.
- Engage in discovery and strategy conversations with institutional partners and sales teams.
- Deliver virtual and on-site capability demonstrations aligned with customer needs and sales strategy.
- Collaborate within team-based models ensuring continuity from presales to delivery.
- Build credibility and trust with institutional stakeholders including staff, administrators, and decision-makers.
- Support complex sales pursuits by helping customers assess solution fit and visualize outcomes.
- Represent Ellucian at industry events, conferences, and user groups.
- Require 7+ years of experience in higher education administration or related presales within Student/Academic Services.
- Hands-on expertise with Banner Student is required; Banner Finance experience preferred.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills and ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
- Comfort operating in SaaS-first environments with a continuous learning mindset.
- Offers comprehensive health coverage, flexible time off, 401(k) with matching, parental leave, wellness programs, and professional development opportunities.
Senior Solutions Consultant |Banner Student | Remote Full Description
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 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.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian's Solutions Consulting organization is seeking a Senior Solutions Consultant with deep Banner Student experience and a strong understanding of the end-to-end student lifecycle, ideally complemented by exposure to Banner Finance. This role operates within a capability-based presales model, where Solutions Consultants partner closely with Strategic Business Advisors and Professional Services to deliver confident, delivery-ready presales engagement.
In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor and functional subject matter expert, helping institutions envision how Ellucian Student and related capabilities enable student success while aligning early conversations to realistic delivery and change outcomes. You will be part of a team that owns opportunities end-to-end — from early discovery and demonstration through a clean handoff to implementation — ensuring continuity, clarity, and reduced risk throughout the sales cycle.
This is not a demo-only role. It is a position for someone who can combine deep functional credibility with thoughtful discovery, disciplined scoping, and clear value articulation in a SaaS environment. Your expertise will directly influence discovery quality, solution alignment, and customer confidence, helping institutions modernize with minimal disruption and reinforcing Ellucian's reputation for offering the most advanced ERP, SIS, and AI-driven solution to power innovation for higher education.
Where You Will Make an Impact
- Serve as a Banner Student subject matter expert, helping institutions understand how Ellucian solutions support the full student lifecycle, from admissions through completion.
- Participate in structured discovery and strategy conversations to understand institutional goals, challenges, and readiness, working in partnership with sales, SBAs, and services teams.
- Deliver virtual and on-site capability demonstrations that are aligned to customer needs, sales strategy, and realistic delivery approaches — emphasizing what is standard, configurable, and scalable.
- Collaborate within a team-based model, contributing your functional expertise while supporting broader opportunity ownership and continuity from presales into delivery.
- Build credibility and trust with institutional stakeholders — including staff, administrators, and decision-makers — through clear communication, practical insight, and higher-ed expertise.
- Support competitive and complex pursuits by helping customers visualize outcomes, assess fit, and move forward with confidence.
- Represent Ellucian at regional and national conferences, user groups, and events, sharing expertise and strengthening Ellucian's presence in the higher education community.
What You Will Bring
- 7+ years of experience in higher education administration or related presales experience, within Student / Academic Services (Admissions, Registration, Academic Records, Student Accounts, etc.).
- Hands-on expertise with Banner Student is required; experience with Banner Finance is strongly preferred.
- A solid understanding of higher education business processes, institutional constraints, and industry trends.
- The ability to translate functional expertise into clear, value-focused conversations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort operating in a SaaS-first environment, with curiosity and willingness to continuously learn evolving solutions and delivery models.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to logically and confidently communicate complex concepts.
- A collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively within a team, meet deadlines, follow through on commitments, and act with urgency when needed.
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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