Functional Consultant – Higher Education

About the Position

Are you excited about data and clouds? Do you like to be involved in solving complex business problems by creating advanced and innovative technical solutions like Gen AI and SaaS implementations?

If yes – please talk to us!

Join ABCloudz team - we’ve been helping customers to modernize legacy applications, create new solutions, and manage data/applications/infrastructure for over 20 years. With close to 300 engineers and architects in 8 offices worldwide, ABCloudz is considered as one of the best companies in the world for database and application migrations and modernizations having absolutely unique expertise in developing migration software for Microsoft and AWS. Taking care of data for customers to make sure it’s secure, available, consistent and managed in a cost-effective manner with mitigated risks - this is in our DNA. So if you enjoy working with data and considering what’s your next career move, we’ll be thrilled to talk to you!

We are looking for an experienced Functional Consultant – Higher Education to support universities and colleges in optimizing, implementing, and supporting ERP, CRM and Student Information Systems (SIS). The ideal candidate will act as a bridge between institutional stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring business requirements are translated into effective, compliant, and scalable system solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Higher Education stakeholders including Registrar, Finance, Payroll, HR, Student Services, and Admissions teams to understand business processes and challenges.
• Gather, analyze, and document functional requirements, workflows, and use cases.
• Translate institutional needs into clear functional specifications for technical and implementation teams.
• Lead or support implementations of Higher Education CRM and SIS platforms such as Ellucian Banner, Colleague, Anthology, Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar systems.
• Configure and support Student Information Systems, Finance & Accounting, Payroll & HR, and Financial Aid modules as applicable.
• Participate in system upgrades, patches, enhancements, and ongoing optimization initiatives.
• Develop and execute functional test cases, UAT scenarios, and validation plans.
• Support end users during User Acceptance Testing and go-live activities.
• Identify system gaps and recommend process improvements or functional enhancements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to university leadership and functional teams.
• Conduct workshops, demonstrations, and training sessions for end users.
• Provide post-implementation support and functional troubleshooting.
• Maintain functional documentation, process flows, configuration guides, and training materials.
• Ensure solutions comply with Higher Education regulations, including payroll, tax, audit, and other regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Education, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Functional Consultant within Higher Education.
• Hands-on experience with Higher Education systems.
• Strong understanding of university business processes, including: Student lifecycle management, Finance and payroll operations, Academic administration.
• Proven experience working with cross-functional and technical teams.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Ellucian Banner, Colleague, Anthology, Workday, PeopleSoft, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of payroll and tax processes specific to Higher Education institutions.
• Experience with data migration, reporting, and system integrations.
• Prior consulting experience in a client-facing environment.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a global full-service company at the cutting edge of the latest application development and data management technologies.
• Join an always-growing company to operate on the cutting-edge of information technologies, cloud services, application development, and digital infrastructure.
• Work with world-class companies and understand new technologies.
• Raise your professional skills and work with a trusted team of experts.

About the Company

ABCloudz is a global full-service company operating at the cutting edge of the latest application development and data management technologies. At ABCloudz, we believe optimal data environments are the greatest competitive advantage, and our Solutions Architects have experience with building enterprise-grade systems.

It is why our team has dedicated ourselves to helping hundreds of organizations – from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies – with architecting cloud solutions, developing web and mobile applications, optimizing complex data workloads, and managing workloads on an ongoing basis - no matter where those datasets may reside.

Our mission is to help businesses accurately, efficiently, and reliably build, move, and manage data workloads. The trusted ABCloudz team now has hundreds of employees in five countries, including our headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and offices in San Francisco, Israel, Poland, and Ukraine.

Our expertise covers all major cloud and on-premises and databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, Azure, AWS, and GCP solutions. Our prolific developers are focused on delivering the best possible digital solutions leveraging our expertise with BI, Advanced Analytics, AI, Big Data, IoT, DevOps, and Managed Services.

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