Technical Architect — Higher Ed Platforms

The role

You will own technical architecture and delivery for Ellucian platforms, including integrations, web applications, and data migrations. You will also lead and mentor engineers while working directly with US clients to design and build solutions.

What you will do

• Design secure integrations, web applications, identity solutions and workflow automation on Ellucian platforms.
• Document practical designs and stay hands-on with production code.
• Learn Ellucian Ethos, Experience, Workflow, Banner/Colleague data structures and the API catalogue.
• Run architecture and code reviews.
• Resolve complex technical problems and mentor new engineers.
• Lead technical discovery and support project scoping, estimation and technical proposals for US clients.
• Own source analysis, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation and cutover for data migrations.
• Meet assigned annual billable utilisation target.
• Use AI coding assistants responsibly and contribute to internal AI development tools.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering.
• 5+ years delivering for external clients in consulting or professional services.
• Direct experience leading technical discussions and managing expectations with US-based clients.
• Experience designing, securing, versioning and operating integrations at scale.
• Knowledge of synchronous REST, event-driven, message-based, batch, file-based and ETL integrations.
• Hands-on SAML 2.0 and single sign-on (SSO).
• Working knowledge of OIDC, identity providers, federation, attribute and role mapping, and provisioning.
• Strong OAuth 2.0, JWT, API key, token and scope design, least-privilege service-account access, secrets handling and secure data exchange skills.
• Expert-level TypeScript and React.js.
• Deep server-side Node.js.
• Ability to design end-to-end web applications.
• Experience with a workflow or business process management (BPM) tool.

Nice to have

• Ellucian Banner, Colleague, Ethos, Experience or Workflow
• higher education technology
• enterprise resource planning (ERP), student information systems (SIS), human resource management systems (HRMS) or finance platforms
• Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL or API gateways
• AWS S3, SFTP and secure file exchange
• AI/ML tools, large language model (LLM) APIs, prompt engineering, internal developer tools or AI-assisted automated testing
• Low-code/no-code platforms
• distributed teams across time zones
• pre-sales solution design and estimation

Benefits

• Access to Ellucian training and certification
• Platform badges targeted within first 60 days
• Direct knowledge transfer from experienced US consultants

About the company

Strata Information Group (SIG) is a US-based leader in higher education technology consulting. They support colleges and universities with ERP/SIS modernization, digital transformation, CRM, cybersecurity, and strategic advisory services.