Senior Programmer Analyst (MUST have experience with Ellucian Banner) | Onsite – Harrison County Campus - Mississippi Gulf Coast

Location: Perkinston, Mississippi, United States

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 Senior Programmer Analyst with strong technical experience in Ellucian Banner to play a key role in delivering innovative technology solutions that support our higher education partners. In this role, you will collaborate closely with customers, consultants, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into effective technical solutions, including system integrations, data conversions, reporting, and custom application development.

You will leverage your hands-on technical expertise with Ellucian Banner, along with your programming and problem-solving skills, to design, develop, and implement high-quality solutions while providing exceptional customer consultation and support.

Where you will make an impact

• Working with other consultants to develop organizational standards, effective practices, and knowledge-base
• Monitoring, tracking, and reporting project risks, issues, milestones, and work completed
• Providing leadership for the customer enabling them to stay on time and on task
• Facilitating application prototyping sessions as well as providing insight into best practice methodologies
• Evaluating and modifying systems, where appropriate, relative to the customer business practices
• Analyzing, defining, and documenting requirements for data, work-flow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs
• Providing customer with high-quality installation guides, change management, and other appropriate documentation
• Providing direction in developing testing methodology and test scripts for use during upgrades, patch application, and customization
• Working with the customer to test and confirm modifications and/or updates meet specifications
• Providing technical assistance by responding to inquiries from others regarding errors, problems, or questions about programs
• Training end users or technical support staff to use programs
• Installing and testing programs at client site; monitoring performance of programs after implementation
• Implementing modifications and/or updates
• Customizing and coding screen layouts, graphical user interfaces, printed outputs, and interfaces with other systems 

What you will bring

• Demonstrate your strong problem-solving skills and self-starter attitude in this key role
• Excellent time-management, planning, and interpersonal skills will also be essential for your success.
•  years related experience in the Higher Education industry
• 3+ years of experience and expert technical programming knowledge of at least one of the following Banner modules:
• Finance
• Human Resources/Payroll
• Student
• Financial Aid
• 3+ years of advanced programming experience with:
• SQL-Developer
• Oracle SQL
• Oracle PL/SQL
• Linux
• Banner functional navigational knowledge, preferred3+ years of experience and expert technical programming knowledge of at least one of the following Banner related 3rd-party products, and/or other systems such as:

• Argos
• Perceptive Content (Hyland)
• Automic
• Canvas ERP

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible time off
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
  • Headspace Care (mental health)
  • Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
• 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

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Responsibilities

Ellucian is seeking a Senior Programmer Analyst with strong technical experience in Ellucian Banner to play a key role in delivering innovative technology solutions that support our higher education partners. In this role, you will collaborate closely with customers, consultants, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into effective technical solutions, including system integrations, data conversions, reporting, and custom application development.

You will leverage your hands-on technical expertise with Ellucian Banner, along with your programming and problem-solving skills, to design, develop, and implement high-quality solutions while providing exceptional customer consultation and support.

Where you will make an impact

• Working with other consultants to develop organizational standards, effective practices, and knowledge-base
• Monitoring, tracking, and reporting project risks, issues, milestones, and work completed
• Providing leadership for the customer enabling them to stay on time and on task
• Facilitating application prototyping sessions as well as providing insight into best practice methodologies
• Evaluating and modifying systems, where appropriate, relative to the customer business practices
• Analyzing, defining, and documenting requirements for data, work-flow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs
• Providing customer with high-quality installation guides, change management, and other appropriate documentation
• Providing direction in developing testing methodology and test scripts for use during upgrades, patch application, and customization
• Working with the customer to test and confirm modifications and/or updates meet specifications
• Providing technical assistance by responding to inquiries from others regarding errors, problems, or questions about programs
• Training end users or technical support staff to use programs
• Installing and testing programs at client site; monitoring performance of programs after implementation
• Implementing modifications and/or updates
• Customizing and coding screen layouts, graphical user interfaces, printed outputs, and interfaces with other systems 

What you will bring

• Demonstrate your strong problem-solving skills and self-starter attitude in this key role
• Excellent time-management, planning, and interpersonal skills will also be essential for your success.
•  years related experience in the Higher Education industry
• 3+ years of experience and expert technical programming knowledge of at least one of the following Banner modules:
• Finance
• Human Resources/Payroll
• Student
• Financial Aid
• 3+ years of advanced programming experience with:
• SQL-Developer
• Oracle SQL
• Oracle PL/SQL
• Linux
• Banner functional navigational knowledge, preferred3+ years of experience and expert technical programming knowledge of at least one of the following Banner related 3rd-party products, and/or other systems such as:

• Argos
• Perceptive Content (Hyland)
• Automic
• Canvas ERP

Qualifications

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible time off
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
  • Headspace Care (mental health)
  • Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
• 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

#LI-MH1

#LI-onsite