GEDU Services
Website:
geduservices.com
Job details:
Role:
Higher Education Technology Solution Architect
Work Location:
Bangalore / Noida
Work Model:
Onsite (5 Days work from Office)
We are seeking a
Higher Education Technology Solution Architect to design a
Student Management System from scratch, covering the full student lifecycle from enquiry, admissions, enrolment, academic records, attendance, assessments, progression, fees, graduation, and alumni transition.
Key Responsibilities
- Design the end-to-end architecture for a new Student Management System.
- Define modules for admissions, enrolment, student records, curriculum, timetabling, attendance, assessment, progression, fees, and reporting.
- Create scalable data models for students, courses, programmes, cohorts, terms, modules, credits, grades, and academic history.
- Design workflows for student onboarding, course registration, approvals, academic progression, transfers, withdrawals, and graduation.
- Define integration architecture with LMS, CRM, finance, identity management, payment gateways, reporting tools, and government/statutory systems.
- Establish API-first, cloud-ready, secure, and modular architecture principles.
- Define role-based access for students, faculty, administrators, finance teams, registrars, and leadership.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, accessibility, audit, retention, and education-sector regulatory requirements.
- Lead requirements workshops with academic, registry, admissions, finance, IT, and student support teams.
- Produce architecture blueprints, system context diagrams, data flows, integration maps, and implementation roadmaps.
- Guide technology selection, vendor evaluation, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Required Experience
- 8+ years in solution architecture, enterprise systems, or education technology.
- Strong experience designing, architecting or implementing Student Information Systems / Student Management Systems.
- Understanding of higher education business processes and student lifecycle management.
- Experience with domain modelling, workflow design, API design, data architecture, and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of integrations with LMS, CRM, ERP/finance, IAM/SSO, analytics, and document management systems.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, SaaS platforms, and multi-tenant systems.
- Knowledge of FERPA, GDPR, WCAG, audit controls, and data governance.
- Experience with platforms such as Banner, PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, Unit4, Workday Student, Ellucian, Tribal, Salesforce Education Cloud, Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard.
- TOGAF, AWS, Azure, or GCP certification preferred.
Key Deliverables
- Student Management System architecture blueprint
- Functional module map
- Student lifecycle process model
- Conceptual and logical data model
- Integration architecture
- Security and access control model
- Reporting and analytics architecture
- Phased implementation roadmap
Ideal Candidate
A hands-on architect who can work with university stakeholders and engineering teams to design a modern, scalable Student Management System from the ground up.
Join us on this exciting journey!
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