Principal Solutions Architect Responsibilities:- Manage workstreams on multiple projects with the ability to stand up cloud data architecture with minimal supervision from senior team members
- Act as product owner for end-to-end business intelligence solutions, from ETL to visualization
- Develop and maintain a strong client relationship on engagement and effectively communicates hypothesis, assumptions, results, and other opportunities for improvement
- Lead junior team members and colleagues across workstreams
- Produce high quality, client-facing, production level code and sustainable architectural designs
- Contribute to proposal development (i.e., assistance with analysis/presentation, etc.) and proactively identifies way to improve the proposal quality (i.e., research, package case studies, etc.)
- Assist Partners in preparation for pitches and attend as required
- Take ownership over development of Firm Contribution areas, such as Recruiting, Professional Development, Marketing, etc.
Principal Solutions Architect Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree from a top university, required
- Master's degree related to analytics or information system, preferred
- 7+ years of business intelligence or data analytics experience
- Previous experience in data and analytics consulting or a client facing role
- Expert knowledge and delivery experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik or any other data visualization tools
- Strong knowledge and experience with ETL tools like Power Query, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch, Alteryx and languages like SQL, Python or R
- Knowledge or experience working with cloud data warehouses (Azure, Snowflake, GCP, AWS)
- Relevant certifications associated with business intelligence tools
- Experience in mentoring junior analysts and leading cross-functional teams to deliver data products
- Demonstrated ability to interact and work collaboratively with junior and senior team members, senior management, and other stakeholders or professionals
- "Roll up your sleeves" mentality and willingness to complete any tasks if needed, no matter the role
- Experience in project management and independently managing deliverables
- Effective communication skills to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience or senior executives
- Ability to assist with internal firm initiatives (e.g., marketing, client pitches)
- Willingness to travel up to 20%
- Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
- Authorization to work in the United States
- Commitment to living MERU's values and core characteristics
$170,000 - $190,000 a year
In addition to benefits, MERU also offers an extremely competitive bonus program that is based on firm contribution efforts, adherence to our core values, and performance.
