Principal Solutions Architect, Data Insights

Meet The Company

We are MERU. 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. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth over the past eight years.

• Manage work streams 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 communicate hypothesis, assumptions, results, and other opportunities for improvement
• Lead junior team members and colleagues across work streams
• Produce high quality, client‑facing, production level code and sustainable architectural designs
• Contribute to proposal development and proactively identify ways to improve the proposal quality (e.g., research, package case studies)
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree from a top university, required
• Master’s degree related to analytics or information systems, 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 other data visualization tools
• Strong knowledge and experience with ETL tools like Power Query, Azure Data Factory, Five Tran, Stitch, Alteryx and languages such as 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
• “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.

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, sex, sexual 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.

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.