We are looking for an experienced Jenzabar1 and PowerFAIDS Consultant/Developer to support a time-sensitive Contract engagement focused on higher education financial aid systems on a remote basis. In this role, you will help build a dependable integration between Jenzabar J1 and PowerFAIDS, ensuring essential student and aid data moves accurately and efficiently to support awarding and disbursement activities. You will partner closely with technical and functional stakeholders to deliver a practical, scalable solution within a fast-moving project timeline.
Responsibilities:
• Review current PowerFAIDS update workflows and evaluate how existing data exchanges are structured and used across financial aid operations.
• Translate business and technical needs into a clear mapping strategy that aligns Jenzabar J1 data with required PowerFAIDS fields.
• Design and build integration processes using appropriate methods such as student updates, external update tables, imports, scripts, and database procedures.
• Create and refine code, stored procedures, and transformation logic needed to move approximately 70 data elements from Jenzabar J1 into PowerFAIDS.
• Work directly with Financial Aid and IT teams to confirm requirements, validate data quality, and resolve issues throughout development and testing.
• Establish processing approaches that support multiple aid years at the same time while preserving historical information and operational continuity.
• Develop an approach that simplifies annual rollover activities for administrators without disrupting ongoing financial aid processing.
• Reduce operational impact during implementation by aligning new integration components with current PowerFAIDS usage wherever possible.
• Produce thorough technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams at the conclusion of the engagement.