Technical Consultant (Postgres/MSSQL)

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.

Ellucian is seeking a talented PostgreSQL Data Migration Consultant to join our Product Modernization team. In this role, you will work closely with the Product Modernization team, collaborating with fellow consultants and operating independently to support the implementation of Colleague ERP solutions. You’ll bring a strong blend of Cloud and Postgres database administration knowledge to help institutions modernize their campuses. As colleges and universities embrace cloud and SaaS technologies to drive student success, you will play a critical role in supporting the customer journey. You’ll also work directly with the Engineering team supporting our agentic migration tooling and with the Cloud Engineering teams supporting our SaaS applications.

Where you will make an impact

• Meet with fellow consultants to maintain open communication and deliver technical engagement.
• Work directly with the Cloud Engineering teams to ensure secure use of our tooling and handoff or project deliverables in accordance with our access control and information security standards.
• Perform complex data migrations from non-SQL database structures to a PostrgeSQL database structure using existing data migration tooling.
• Provide insight and recommendations on automating and orchestrating the data migration process.
• Resolve common errors in data migration.
• Success will be measured by customer satisfaction, achievement of projects, and quality of completed data migrations.

What will you bring

• A minimum of 3 years of experience as a database administrator, cloud engineer, systems administrator, DevOps specialist, operations engineer, or similar role that required supporting production infrastructure, preferably in a PostgreSQL or MSSQL environment
• A minimum of 1 year of experience using an agentic harness or large language model to orchestrate or expedite common actions
• A minimum of 1 year of experience supporting and automating forward-facing, production applications using AWS services offerings including, but not limited to – EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, S3.
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Ruby, Python, Bash/zsh).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (preferably Terraform) and common CI/CD/CD and DevOps tooling.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible).
• Ability to:
• Work in a team-oriented project environment.
• Take ownership of tasks.
• Keep track of multiple projects.
• To use the customer support center to research issues.
• Be a problem-solver.
• Must have effective communication, training, and presentation skills.
• Strong prioritization skills, able to manage activities based on business impact.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines.
• System administration basics

• 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
  o Headspace (mental health)
  o 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