Solutions Architect | Remote
About the position Ellucian is seeking a motivated, growth-minded Pre-Sales Solutions Architect to join our Professional Services team in designing and developing scalable, cloud-based SaaS proposals that shape the future of higher education. In this role, you will support the pre-sales process by partnering with sales teams to scope, estimate, and propose solutions that showcase value and enable institutions to make informed technology decisions that drive student success. This is an ideal opportunity to join a fast paced, high performing team, while creating strategy and roadmaps that make a meaningful impact in higher education. At Ellucian, we value innovation, continuous learning, and the power of technology to transform the student experience. Responsibilities • Pre Sales Opportunity Support: Drive end to end execution of opportunities from qualification to close with Account Executives (AEs) and other presales resources within Ellucian to scope, estimate, and package implementation proposals for customer implementations including developing SOWs, responding to RFPs, and creating pricing and resource models. • Solution Architecture: Collaborate with customers and internal teams to create appropriate solution architectures that support overall solution design and implementation proposal. • Solution Design: Translate client requirements into capability fit/gaps that address how functional processes will be defined and how gaps will be addressed by our platform and solutions. • AI Implementation: Leverage AI tools and platforms to enhance development workflows, automate tasks, and deliver intelligent features that improve the higher education experience. • Collaboration & Agile Delivery: Work effectively within Agile teams, contributing to sprints, retrospectives, and cross-functional collaboration to drive innovation and successful outcomes. • Continuous Improvement: Create feedback loops to incorporate knowledge from ongoing engagements, IP reuse, and efficiency improvements to revise presales deliverables. Additionally, contribute to ongoing practice improvement initiatives to streamline Lead to Order process inefficiencies, improve proposal SLAs, create and manage offers in support of new products, services, etc. Requirements • Preferred 2+ years of broad Ellucian solution delivery experience at higher education institutions in the U.S., with expertise in cross-functional areas such as Student Information Systems (SIS), Finance, and HR. • Implementation Background: Demonstrated experience across the full lifecycle of a project. Familiar with software implementation methodologies, test strategies, data migration strategies. Comfortable with and have experience in technical implementation, with the ability to architect and design multiple functional and technical areas. • Functional Knowledge Preferred: Conversant in Teaching and Learning, Finance, or HR. • Higher Education Systems: Experience with higher education delivery in enterprise ERP platforms (Ellucian, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.). • Innovation and Creativity: A positive, self-motivated, team-oriented individual with the ability to innovate and create new delivery methodologies to transform higher education effectiveness. • Implementation Planning: Ability to develop detailed implementation plans based on capability-driven delivery methodologies. • Communication and Collaboration: Superior relationship-building skills, exceptional interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, with an emphasis on collaboration and follow-through. • Project Management and Organization: ability to organize and run initiatives end to end with clear communication, planned execution steps, and tracking/visibility. • Ability to travel (typically < 25%) Benefits • 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 • Education Assistance Program • Professional development opportunities Apply tot his job