Location: New York, NY
Company: Meru
a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and Mc Kinsey and has seen rapid growth in the five-plus years since its founding. The MERU Way & Valuing Our Team: We're Partners, not consultants.
When you join MERU, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems, supported by a team of people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you. In order to be Partners, we don't silo people into just one functional area of the business, instead advancing our team's capabilities by providing training for every service that MERU offers. Additionally, we don't just focus on technical
skills but also leadership style and soft skills, so MERU team members not only know what it means to manage a client engagement but to lead a team to success. In training team members to be well-rounded individuals, we can deliver an overall higher impact to clients, allowing the ability to gain experience in diligence, turnarounds, interim management, data science, and more.
To aid this career advancement and development, MERU provides an internal Coach to each team member in order to guide and maintain their professional development plan goals. Unlike most Firms, we actually focus on the achievement of those goals for each individual team member, providing opportunities that would
not usually be offered. Finally, MERU values personal time, only traveling when necessary in order to celebrate and respect your personal life.
We believe that by encouraging and mandating balance, it will lead to happier and longer-tenured team members. When you come to MERU, you come to further your career and maintain your entrepreneurial spirit, never losing sight of the desire to provide meaningful impact, solutions, and value to clients. Learn more about our colleagues' core characteristics and culture here: /meru-way/ Solutions Architect Responsibilities: Manage multiple workstreams with the ability to stand up cloud data architecture with minimal supervision from senior team members Acts as product owner for end-to-end business intelligence solutions, from ETL to visualization Develops and maintains a strong client relationship on engagement and effectively communicates hypothesis, assumptions, results, and other opportunities for improvement Manages junior team members and colleagues across workstreams Produces high quality, Client facing, production level code and sustainable architectural designs Contributes to proposal development (i.
e. assistance with analysis/presentation, etc. ) and proactively identifies ways to improve the proposal quality (i.
e. research, package case studies, etc. ) Assists Partners in preparation for pitches and attends as required Proactively identifies ways to improve proposal quality Supports in the development of Firm Contribution areas, such as Recruiting, Professional Development, Marketing, etc. Solutions Architect Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from a top university, required Master's degree related to analytics or information system, preferred 5+ 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, Five Tran, 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 task 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 $130,000 - $180,000 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.
Overview of MERU Service Offerings: Performance Improvement: Help companies identify and achieve their full potential by leveraging a value-focused approach to driving sustainable margin expansion impact. Services include MERU 360 - backssment, Transformation Plan Development, Chief Transformation Officer placement, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Optimization, and Implementation Performance Management.
Turnaround & Restructuring: Partner with clients during uncertain times to help stabilize operations and rapidly triage the causes of financial distress, charting a path back to long-term sustainability. Services include Interim Management, Turnaround Plan Development and Execution, Liquidity Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Alternatives backssment, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Case Management. Transaction Services: Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning.
Services include Due Diligence, Pre-Close Planning, Post-Close Implementation, and Exit Planning. Data Insights: Work with companies at all stages of their digital transformation journey to automate reporting processes, build scalable data platforms, and leverage predictive analytics to transform data from a liability into an asset. Services include Data Discovery and Analysis, Data Prep and Integration, Self-Service Analytics, Data Visualization and Reporting, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, and Strategy Enablement.
Voluntary Inclusion: It is MERU's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, interaction, interactionual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters: Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening.
Any employment agency, person, or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that MERU will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.
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