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 tea

📌 Ellucian Enterprise Architect (Lucknow)
🏢 Kastech Software Solutions Group
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