Principal Solutions Architect, Data Insights

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