Seton Hall University seeks an experienced IT Architect to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise cloud architecture with a primary focus on cloud infrastructure and SaaS integrations. The architect will play a pivotal role in designs around the migration of the Ellucian Banner ERP system to Ellucian SaaS, while ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance integration across identity management, research computing platforms, AI/ML workloads, and a growing portfolio of cloud-native and hybrid applications.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires deep expertise in cloud/IaaS services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and SaaS ecosystem orchestration. The architect will collaborate with application owners, infrastructure teams, security engineers, and vendors to deliver resilient, cost-optimized solutions that support teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & IaaS Leadership
- Design and maintain reference architectures for Infrastructure as a service including IaaS network design, familiarity with AWS and other cloud providers topology, multi account strategy, security configuration and overall services
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) for repeatable, auditable deployments.
- Optimize IaaS/SaaS cost, performance, and reliability using native tools
- Lead adoption of container orchestration and serverless patterns for custom integrations and AI workloads for various IaaS infrastructure including AWS.

Ellucian Banner SaaS Migration
- Serve as technical advisor and architecture team leader for the Banner ERP migration to Ellucian SaaS
- Work with the Integration team to help design and event-driven workflows for real-time synchronization between Banner SaaS, internal, and external systems.
- Work with the Executive Director of ITS and the Architecture team to design, from a Seton Hall perspective, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for the new Ellucian SaaS environment.

Identity Management
- Extend our current Identity system as the central IdP for SSO, SCIM provisioning, and MFA across SaaS (ERP, LMS, etc.) and IaaS workloads.
- Research and expand Identity Workflows, Adaptive MFA, and risk-based authentication policies.
- Design full suite of Identity Management software solutions, and the workflows between them.

Research Computing & AI Enablement
- Work with the Architecture team to build scalable HPC and GPU-enabled environments on IaaS cloud sites along with other specialized hosted solutions. Work on designing connectivity, secure access, and workload management
- Design solutions for sensitive research data using cloud based external tools.
- Research AI/ML development in and out of AWS.
- Research Agentic AI solutions to help reduce existing work effort around repeatable tasks

SaaS Integration & Governance
- Maintain an enterprise integration catalog and API management layer.
- Enforce SaaS sprawl controls, and work with the IT Security team around access to information on data residency/SOC 2, and other security review items, along with internal and external audit questions.

Security, Compliance & Operations
- Embed security-by-design using AWS tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, and IAM policies aligned with CIS benchmarks along with other IaaS environment tools where appropriate. Apply those tools to external systems, on-prem servers, and SaaS solutions
- Ensure compliance with FERPA, HIPAA (where applicable), and NIST 800-171 for CUI in research contracts.
- Work with the Systems team to automate patch management, vulnerability scanning, and configuration drift detection.

Required Qualifications:

HS Diploma
5-8 years related work experience

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelors in related field
Masters in related field

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $165,000

Exempt/Nonexempt: Exempt

Physical Demands: General Office Environment

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Benefits Information: 

Full Time Benefits

Life today is complex. That’s why Seton Hall University offers a comprehensive package of benefits and programs to help you simplify and enrich your life.

These benefits are important elements of your total university compensation package. Benefits include but are not limited to bundled medical, prescription, and vision insurance, dental insurance, and life insurance, and retirement plan. More information is available at https://www.shu.edu/human-resources/benefits.html. 

Seton Hall University is located in South Orange, New Jersey, 14 miles from New York City. It is the oldest Catholic diocesan institution of higher education in the United States and is home to about 6,300 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students. A vibrant and culturally inclusive community, Seton Hall pursues academic excellence and ethical development in a collaborative environment and prepares its students to be servant leaders in their professional and community lives. Seton Hall University is an equal opportunity employer. It honors diverse perspectives and welcomes employees from all faith traditions. In turn, its employees respect Catholic beliefs and values, engage in servant leadership, and support the University’s mission as a Catholic institution of higher education.