Senior Architect (Data, Cloud, AI)

About the role

About the Opportunity Ellucian is seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior Architect to lead the architecture and technical strategy for our next-generation SaaS Data Platform. This role will drive the transformation of our current data warehouse ecosystem into a modern, scalable, cloud-native Lakehouse platform capable of supporting analytics, AI/ML workloads, agentic AI capabilities, and real-time data products.

What you'll do

• Drive the transformation of our current data warehouse ecosystem into a modern, scalable, cloud-native Lakehouse platform capable of supporting analytics
• Spearhead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and partner closely across product, engineering
• Make an Impact Architecture & Strategy: Define and drive the target-state architecture and technology roadmap for a modern
• Establish architectural standards, reference architectures, and technology principles that support analytics, AI-native products, agentic systems
• Establish reusable platform patterns for responsible AI adoption, model observability, governance, security

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• Machine learning
• Data warehousing
• LLMs
• Data modelling
• AWS
• Spark
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Kafka
• CI/CD
• Test automation
• System design
• Lean