IT Architect

Seton Hall University; South Orange (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Seton Hall University seeks an experienced IT Architect to oversee the design and implementation of enterprise cloud architecture, focusing on migration to Ellucian SaaS. This role demands expertise in cloud services, IaaS, and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include ensuring reliable, cost-efficient solutions, managing identity systems, and enabling research with AI/ML workloads. Candidates should have 5–8 years of related experience and a strong educational background. The position offers a salary range of $120,000 – $165,000 and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years related work experience in cloud architecture.
• Experience with IaaS services and SaaS ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of security compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of enterprise cloud architecture and SaaS migrations.
• Implement infrastructure as code for deployments.
• Optimize cloud solutions for cost and performance.
• Manage identity services for SaaS workloads.
• Research and implement AI solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture expertise

Infrastructure as Code

SaaS integration

Identity management

AI and ML workloads

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's in related field

Master's in related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Job No: 497174

Full Time/Part Time: Full-time

Location: South Orange

Categories: Administrator

Seton Hall University seeks an experienced IT Architect to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise cloud architecture with a primary focus on cloud infrastructure and SaaS integrations. The architect will play a pivotal role in designs around the migration of the Ellucian Banner ERP system to Ellucian SaaS, while ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance integration across identity management, research computing platforms, AI/ML workloads, and a growing portfolio of cloud‑native and hybrid applications.

This hands‑on technical leadership role requires deep expertise in cloud/IaaS services, infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD pipelines, and SaaS ecosystem orchestration. The architect will collaborate with application owners, infrastructure teams, security engineers, and vendors to deliver resilient, cost‑optimized solutions that support teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & IaaS Leadership

• Design and maintain reference architectures for Infrastructure as a Service including IaaS network design, familiarity with AWS and other cloud providers topology, multi‑account strategy, security configuration and overall services
• Implement infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) for repeatable, auditable deployments
• Optimize IaaS/SaaS cost, performance, and reliability using native tools
• Lead adoption of container orchestration and serverless patterns for custom integrations and AI workloads for various IaaS infrastructure including AWS

Ellucian Banner SaaS Migration

• Serve as technical advisor and architecture team leader for the Banner ERP migration to Ellucian SaaS
• Work with the Integration team to design event‑driven workflows for real‑time synchronization between Banner SaaS, internal, and external systems
• Work with the Executive Director of ITS and the Architecture team to design, from a Seton Hall perspective, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for the new Ellucian SaaS environment

Identity Management

• Extend our current Identity system as the central IdP for SSO, SCIM provisioning, and MFA across SaaS (ERP, LMS, etc.) and IaaS workloads
• Research and expand Identity Workflows, Adaptive MFA, and risk‑based authentication policies
• Design full suite of Identity Management software solutions, and the workflows between them

Research Computing & AI Enablement

• Work with the Architecture team to build scalable HPC and GPU‑enabled environments on IaaS cloud sites along with other specialized hosted solutions, designing connectivity, secure access, and workload management
• Design solutions for sensitive research data using cloud‑based external tools
• Research AI/ML development in and out of AWS
• Research Agentic AI solutions to help reduce existing work effort around repeatable tasks

SaaS Integration & Governance

• Maintain an enterprise integration catalog and API management layer
• Enforce SaaS sprawl controls, and work with the IT Security team around access to information on data residency/SOC 2, and other security review items, along with internal and external audit questions

Security, Compliance & Operations

• Embed security‑by‑design using AWS tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and IAM policies aligned with CIS benchmarks and other IaaS environment tools where appropriate. Apply those tools to external systems, on‑prem servers, and SaaS solutions
• Ensure compliance with FERPA, HIPAA (where applicable), and NIST 800‑171 for CUI in research contracts
• Work with the Systems team to automate patch management, vulnerability scanning, and configuration drift detection

Required Qualifications

HS Diploma

5–8 years related work experience

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor’s in related field

Master’s in related field

Salary Range

$120,000 – $165,000

Exempt/Nonexempt

Exempt

Physical Demands

General Office Environment

Benefits Information

Full Time Benefits

Life today is complex. That's why Seton Hall University offers a comprehensive package of benefits and programs to help you simplify and enrich your life. These benefits are important elements of your total university compensation package. Benefits include but are not limited to bundled medical, prescription, and vision insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, and retirement plan.

Seton Hall University is an equal opportunity employer. It honors diverse perspectives and welcomes employees from all faith traditions. In turn, its employees respect Catholic beliefs and values, engage in servant leadership, and support the University's mission as a Catholic institution of higher education.