Remote AI-Driven SaaS Modernization Architect

Ellucian Company L.P.; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible time off

401k with match

Parental Leave

Telemedicine

Wellness

Headspace Care (mental health)

Job summary

Ellucian is seeking a Banner Modernization Engineer (Solutions Architect) to drive SaaS modernization across customer go-lives. The role combines SA/TA responsibilities with automation to shorten delivery cycles and improve repeatability using AI-enabled analysis, documentation, design validation, and migration support.

You will work across discovery, data migration, integrations, and enablement, building reusable assets and accelerating delivery while maintaining strong customer partnerships

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solution architecture and delivery experience in consulting or professional services, including leadership on large, complex programs.
• Deep expertise across higher education enterprise domains (preferably Ellucian), such as SIS, Finance, HR, and adjacent ecosystems.
• Strong technical and functional fluency in SaaS architectures, ERP ecosystems, integrations, data migration, reporting/analytics, and security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Perform solution design and technical architecture configuration, validation, and troubleshooting and work to automate those steps.
• Assess environment and define SaaS-aligned target-state technical solutions.
• Analyze existing extensions, customizations, and integrations and develop strategies to replace them with baseline product functionality or SaaS-safe alternatives.
• Translate requirements into technical designs with scalability, performance, and security in mind.
• Lead or support modernization discovery workshops and produce solutioning outputs.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to customer teams so they can independently maintain implemented solutions.

Skills

AI speedups

Solution architecture

Delivery leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication to execs

Workshop facilitation

Automation

SaaS architectures

Data migration

Job description

Ellucian is seeking a Banner Modernization Engineer (Solutions Architect) to drive SaaS modernization across customer go-lives. The role combines SA/TA responsibilities with automation to shorten delivery cycles and improve repeatability using AI-enabled analysis, documentation, design validation, and migration support.

You will work across discovery, data migration, integrations, and enablement, building reusable assets and accelerating delivery while maintaining strong customer partnerships