Senior Consultant - ReactJs, NodeJs, SQL, PLSQL

About Ellucian Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

About The Opportunity Ellucian is seeking an experienced Senior Consultant who will bring new and creative solutions to the evolution of our product while supporting our design principles: extensibility, configuration, usability, openness, and scalability. The individual will engage in the full development life cycle, from specification review to product adoption. The expectations for candidates to fill this role include significant experience in the areas below.

Where you will make an impact

• Work with a team of developers and other peers to build API based integrations between the Banner/Colleague ERPs and third party products and test the processes according to the prepared specifications.
• Create and execute accurate unit test cases to ensure thorough integration testing of customization before delivery
• Leads and directs work of the functional/technical team on customer projects. Performs team lead functions for assigned project.
• Contributes to the definition of client engagement.
• Mentors and trains less experienced consultants and reviews their work.
• Supervises other consultants to develop organizational standards, effective practices and knowledgebase.
• Works with practice leadership to develop practice initiatives that promote growth and development within the practice.
• Interacts 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.
• Implements modifications and/or updates.
• Provides guidance in the development of user-training strategy, and when appropriate, delivers such training.
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills and self-starter attitude.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with demonstrable presentation and professional communication skills (written and verbal).
• Demonstrated aptitude for logical application of problem-solving techniques.
• Stay current with Ellucian applications
• Have an aptitude to learn new / related technologies quickly and apply them on the projects you work on.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor in computer science degree or equivalent
• 7 – 12 years of programming experience in JavaScript, React, Node JS, Oracle SQL and Restful Web Services.
• Exhibits a strong sense of ownership for individual work assignments
• Experience working independently with little direction to achieve goals. Ability to work with a remote team leveraging available tools.
• Brings an established, effective method for tracking and completing tasks on time.
• Prefers a collaborative work environment over working solo, with a bias towards sharing credit for achievement over individual recognition.

What makes #Ellucianlife

• 12 days vacation, 10 days causal leaves plus 11 public holidays

• Competitive gratuity policy

• Group insurance and Annual health checkup plan with a variety of family and wellness benefits.

• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests

• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us

• Wellness

• Headspace (mental health)

• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)

• RethinkCare – caregiver support

• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Buzzinga and Lean In Team to name a few.

• Parental leave

• 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

• LinkedIn Learning