Senior Consultant - Banner Programmer at Ellucian

Unlock Learning For All

Here at Ellucian, we are motivated by a mission - power education so institutions can empower student success. We are the global market leader in EdTech for higher education, serving more than 2,900 customers and reaching over 22 million students in 50 countries. We are dedicated to helping higher education unlock learning for all by providing solutions that support the entire student lifecycle and deliver insights needed now and into the future.

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

As a senior member of the Banner technical team, the Senior Consultant uses superior programming skills and knowledge of customer business challenges to provide outstanding service to the Ellucian Managed Services and Advisory Services client community. The work ranges from software troubleshooting and break/fix support up to full application development and spans many areas including applications, integrations and reporting. This is a customer-facing lead position that requires good consulting skills.

In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing project management, leadership, needs assessment, integration services and the ability to develop a strong working relationship with the client.

Where you will make an impact

• Provide creative technical input to help develop technical solutions to customer problems.
• Facilitate business process review and application prototyping sessions as well as providing business process analysis and insight into best practice methodologies.
• Consult with client to prototype, refine, test, and debug applications.
• Apply design and programming skills across all application tiers to develop and test application, changes, interfaces, reports, and scripts.
• Provide quality end-user consultation and support.
• Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries from others regarding errors, problems, or questions about applications. Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise applications.
• Prepare documents related to requirements and specifications for conversion, reporting, interfaces, and custom applications.
• Write documentation that describes installation and operating procedures.
• Implementing systems and proof of concepts that best fit the customer's needs.
• Ensuring customer satisfaction until the project is complete.
• Provides high-quality customer Technical consultation and support to Ellucian’s Banner products such as Ethos, Banner Extensibility, Ellucian Experience, Banner Self Service, etc.
• Assists customers with extensions that satisfy the customer needs that does not come out of the box on Ellucian Products.
• Drives Ellucian customers to innovative technology.
• Assists clients in troubleshooting issues related to Banner modules within the Ellucian Banner product suite.
• Mentors and trains less experienced consultants and review their work.
• Help with the generation estimations.
• Serve in a lead role while Interacting with the customer and other consultants to translate business requirements into functional specifications for conversions, reporting, interfaces, and customizations.
• Monitors, tracks, and reports project risks, issues, milestones, and work completed, as well as work that is underway.
• Provides leadership for the customer enabling them to stay on time and on task.
• Facilitates business process review and application prototyping sessions as well as providing insight into best practice methodologies.
• Evaluates and modifies systems, where appropriate, relative to the customer business practices.
• Provides customer high-quality business process, change management and other appropriate documentation.
• Provides direction in developing testing methodology and test scripts for use during upgrades, patch application and customizations.
• Works with the customer to test and confirm modifications and/or updates meet specifications.
• Provides guidance in the development of user-training strategy, and when appropriate, delivers such training.
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What You Will Bring

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with reporting tools including Argos, Cognos, Crystal Reports or similar products, preferable Argos.
• Experience with systems with end-to-end system integrations, data feed, and web service consumption.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues and implement solutions.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, vendors, and customers.
• Experience with REST API consumption and development.
• Experience with ReactJS, Angular, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery.
• Experience with higher education applications, specifically Ellucian Banner.
• Knowledge on Application consulting is highly desired.
• Knowledge of a Job/Process Scheduler such as Automic.
• Knowledge of Github or other source code repositories.
• Self-starter attitude.
• Knowledge of any agile methodology.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL, PL/SQL, database functions and procedures.
• Experience using Oracle SQL development environment such as TOAD or SQL Developer.
  
  

What makes #Ellucianlife

• 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
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program
• Professional development opportunities