Senior Data Integration Developer

    Highlights

    Design, build, and maintain integrations between various cloud, internal, and external systems using an appropriate framework, such as developing custom built services/applications, or using Ethos API, Ellucian Data Connect, and Integration Designer. This role partners directly with stakeholders across Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Business Office, and other business areas to translate business needs into reliable, well-architected data integrations and reporting solutions that support tactical and strategic decision-making across the university.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBoston, MA

    Description

    Information Services seeks a Senior Data Integration Developer to support and extend our Ellucian Colleague ERP ecosystem, including the ongoing Colleague SaaS migration, Ethos API integrations, and institutional reporting infrastructure. This role partners directly with stakeholders across Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Business Office, and other business areas to translate business needs into reliable, well-architected data integrations and reporting solutions that support tactical and strategic decision-making across the university.

    Application Development (40%)

    • Design, build, and maintain integrations between various cloud, internal, and external systems using an appropriate framework, such as developing custom built services/applications, or using Ethos API, Ellucian Data Connect, and Integration Designer.
    • Write functional, high quality, and often complex code to integrate cloud-based enterprise applications and internal data sources using ETL tools and/or making use of technologies such as C#, .NET, JavaScript, JSON, SQL, and SOQL.
    • Develop and support web services using both Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) protocols to enable integration across enterprise systems.
    • Experience transforming languages and schemas, including XML, XSLT, XSD, and DTD.
    • Build and maintain tables, views, stored procedures, and ETL pipelines feeding data lakes, warehouses, and other institutional reporting environments in SQL Server/Azure SQL and PostgreSQL environments.
    • Contribute to CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices supporting the development lifecycle.

    Application Support (40%)

    • Support the ongoing Colleague SaaS migration, including UAT, environment troubleshooting, log analysis, and remediation of post-migration integration issues.
    • Collaborate with stakeholders from Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Business Office, and other business units to understand business needs and translate them into technical specifications for integrations and reporting solutions.
    • Support federal and institutional compliance reporting pipelines.
    • Debug and resolve issues with existing integrations across the enterprise ecosystem.
    • Assist with data loading, cleanup, and reconciliation of large record sets across enterprise applications (e.g., HR/payroll reconciliation, user access audits).
    • Actively review and monitor reported incidents and defects; coordinate investigation, resolution, and documentation of results.

    General (20%)

    • Incorporate new data requirements, source systems, and reporting needs into existing data lake and warehouse environments.
    • Use subject matter expertise to guide decisions on data modeling, data sourcing, data quality, and delivery approach.
    • Perform complex data analysis to produce clear, well-documented data definitions.
    • Maintain current knowledge of Ellucian, Salesforce, and Blackboard ecosystem developments, higher-ed data standards, and integration best practices.

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