Jenzabar1 and PowerFAIDS Consultant/Developer

About the role

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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in ERP/CRM development or systems integration roles, preferably within higher education environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Jenzabar J1, including data structures, configuration, and integration design.
• Strong working knowledge of PowerFAIDS, especially student updates, external updates, and financial aid processing workflows.
• Advanced development experience with database scripting, stored procedures, data transformation, and related integration technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to gather and interpret business requirements and convert them into effective technical solutions.
• Experience supporting complex technology integrations involving enterprise applications and workflow coordination.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams and functional stakeholders.
• Prior exposure to client-side scripting, API development, configuration management, or similar supporting technologies is beneficial.