Solutions Architect, Data Insights
MERU - San Francisco, CA
posted 1 day ago
About the position
MERU is a values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies. We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms. We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the five-plus years since its founding. 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. 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.
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a top university, required
- 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, 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 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
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree related to analytics or information system, preferred
- Experience in project management and independently managing deliverables
Benefits
- $150,000 - $175,000 a year
- Competitive bonus program based on firm contribution efforts, adherence to core values, and performance
