Role Overview
Kastech is seeking a senior Ellucian Enterprise Architect to lead current-state assessments and define target-state architecture for higher education institutions undergoing Ellucian Banner modernization.
The role will assess business capabilities, applications, data, integrations/APIs, IAM, infrastructure and cloud, cybersecurity, operations, and technology governance. The architect will translate these assessments into architecture principles, standards, transition architectures, investment roadmaps, decision criteria, and governance mechanisms aligned with institutional objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Lead comprehensive current-state assessments across:
Business capabilities
Applications and Banner ecosystem
Data and reporting
Integrations and APIs
Identity & Access Management
Infrastructure and cloud
Cybersecurity
Operations and technology governance
Document architecture inventories, capability maps, application/data dependencies, integration patterns, technical debt, risks, constraints, and modernization opportunities.
Define target-state architecture principles,



standards, reference patterns, and decision criteria for:
Banner modernization
SaaS adoption
Cloud services
Data and reporting
Integrations
Identity and security
Platform operations
Develop transition architectures and phased modernization roadmaps, including dependencies, investments, risk remediation, and organizational readiness.
Establish architecture standards covering:
APIs and integrations
Data exchange and reporting
Cloud/infrastructure
IAM
Cybersecurity
Observability
Resiliency
Operational support
Define and improve architecture governance mechanisms, including:
Architecture Review Boards
Architecture Decision Records
Exception processes
Standards ownership
Technology lifecycle controls
Investment checkpoints
Facilitate architecture and strategy workshops with CIO/IT leadership, Enterprise Architecture teams, Banner functional owners, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Integration

📌 Ellucian Enterprise Architect (India)
🏢 Kastech Software Solutions Group
📍 India