The Senior Implementation Consultant (IC) is a subject matter expert and business process technologist who works as part of a team to manage the company s entire implementation lifecycle for Anthology s student information system (SIS), Anthology Student. Including participation in and/or conducting business process review, IC s partner with team members across the Professional Services organization in the discovery, design, and ETL of the client s solution. The IC serves as the lead change agent and fosters excellent end-user experiences, builds streamlined business processes and workflows, maximizes existing platforms, and embraces modern technologies and methods.
Primary responsibilities will include:
- Participating in the full scope of implementations: analyzing the customer s business processes, configuring the SIS to meet client needs, conducting end-user training, leading user acceptance testing, validating of migrated data, troubleshooting issues, and provides go-live support
- Documenting current client business processes to incorporate into successful solution design and identifying gaps or areas of concern
- Partnering with other Anthology ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) teams to strategically plan integration needs for client s SIS solution
- Serving as an advocate for the client, assisting in post go-live service calls to deliver continued support and optimization for customers that are live with Anthology Student
- Following the prescribed Anthology implementation methodology and using standard tools, understanding key activities and deliverables for both client engagements
- Engaging in continuous learning for product release readiness, including participating in internal User Acceptance Testing
- Contributing to continuous process improvement of implementation methodology and best practices, including participating in company initiatives that drive client success
- This role requires approximately 75% travel
The Candidate:
Required skills/qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree
- Demonstrated experience conducting presentations, conducting one-on-one and/or on-the-job training, classroom training and/or online training
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications including O365, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- 5-8 years of experience or relevant experience working in project teams in software installation/implementation and/or higher education industry
- Adaptability to quickly learn modern technologies highly desired, including ability to provide high-level explanations of other Anthology products and services beneficial for client s business success
- Understanding of business process documentation
- Ability to communicate well (both written and oral) and converse via on-camera teleconference meetings
- Demonstrated ability to collaboratively work in teams comprised of members from multiple departments, as well as contributors from outside the organization
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Preferred skills/qualifications:
- 6 or more years of Student Information System (SIS) experience or relevant experience working in project teams in software installation/implementation and/or higher education industry operations
- Financial Aid and Student Account (Bursar) experience
- Relational database management including queries, reporting, and administration
- Previous experience working remotely
- Exposure to data management and transformation, or experience with data management tools such as Excel Power Query and Power Pivot and/or previous experience with other software applications such as database and reporting programs