Solutions Architect | Canada | (Higher Education, SIS, ERP)

Ellucian Company L.P.; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education technology company is seeking a Solutions Architect to shape architecture across multiple products. This role involves designing and implementing best practice solutions for Canadian higher education institutions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in solution delivery, strong interpersonal skills, and familiarity with the Canadian education landscape. The position offers a competitive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Flexible time off

Charitable days to support the community

Education Assistance Program

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• Preferred 5+ years of experience at Canadian higher education institutions.
• Familiarity with Canadian post-secondary education landscape.
• Strong customer-facing experience across delivery projects.

Responsibilities

• Analyze institutional objectives and desired outcomes.
• Design and convey comprehensive business architecture.
• Lead cross-functional implementations for customer success.

Skills

Solution delivery experience

Customer-facing experience

Communication and collaboration skills

Comfortable with technical implementation

Innovation and creativity

Job description

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

***candidate must be reside in Canada***

Our Professional Services team at Ellucian is seeking a Solutions Architect who will play a key role in shaping the vision and architecture of our solutions across multiple Ellucian products. This role focuses on designing, supporting, and implementing best practice solutions throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with institutional goals and business requirements. The Solutions Architect collaborates closely with delivery teams, leads Cloud/SaaS modernization engagements, and drives outcomes-based methodology practices to accelerate time-to-value for Canadian higher education institutions. Reporting directly to the manager of the practice, the Solutions Architect serves as a trusted advisor and principal liaison, ensuring the successful execution and adoption of solutions as architected.

Where you will make an impact

• Analyze institutional objectives and desired outcomes, ensuring alignment with customer goals.
• Design and convey comprehensive business architecture, including both technical and functional solutions, from concept through implementation.
• Identify and standardize solutions within the Ellucian ecosystem, ensuring alignment with best practices and the product roadmap.
• Support solution definition and value articulation in collaboration with senior architecture and delivery leads.
• Lead cross-functional implementations, focusing on areas like Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, HR, and ensuring SaaS extensibility is maximized for customer success.
• Facilitate solutioning sessions, guide capability teams through process mapping, and enhance institutional outcomes through standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with project management to define and execute delivery models, mitigate risks, and develop materials such as solution architectures and statements of work.
• Participate in governance and assurance activities, ensuring solutions are implemented as designed and evaluating ongoing success for continuous improvement.
• Mentor new team members on capability-driven service delivery practices, balancing strategic and tactical considerations.
• Contribute to the enhancement of Ellucian’s global architecture repository, supporting time-to-value and outcome-driven methodologies.

What you will bring

• Preferred 5+ years of broad solution delivery experience at multiple Canadian higher education institutions, with expertise in cross-functional areas such as Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, and HR.
• Familiarity with the Canadian post-secondary education landscape, including governance, funding, and operational models.
• Technical Background: Comfortable with and experienced in technical implementation, with the ability to architect across multiple functional and technical areas.
• Preferred experience with large-scale ERP platforms in higher education.
• Familiarity with Ellucian ERP delivery practices and understanding of its role within the broader Ellucian solution landscape.
• Passionate about learning and applying new tools and technologies in service of student and institutional success.
• Innovation and Creativity: A proactive, team-oriented professional with the ability to adapt and evolve delivery methodologies to meet the needs of diverse institutions.
• Strong customer-facing experience across institutions or delivery projects.
• Communication and Collaboration: Outstanding interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with a focus on teamwork, clarity, and follow-through.
• Ability to articulate value and ROI for institutions around a variety of software and services solutions.

Nice to have

• Business acumen and commercial awareness with a broad understanding of solution impacts on institutional growth and operational efficiency.
• Experience delivering SaaS-based transformation and cloud modernization initiatives in higher education.
• Implementation Planning: Ability to develop detailed implementation plans based on capability-driven delivery methodologies.
• Experience contributing to or launching new service offerings or capability portfolios.

What makes #Ellucianlife

• Choice to opt in for private Medical and Dental coverage
• Flexible time off
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• Group Retirement Savings Plan
• TELUS Health Virtual Care
• Parental Leave
• 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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