About the Team

The Data Platform Team at Scout is dedicated to unlocking the full potential of data by building a secure, scalable, and distributed platform that enables real-time insights, drives informed decision-making, and fosters innovation across the organization.

Our mission is to empower teams with actionable intelligence by streamlining data sharing, ensuring regulatory compliance, maintaining data integrity, and optimizing costs at every level.

This role is focused on building foundation for deploying AI-enabled use cases across company operations.

What you’ll do

Become part of an iconic brand that is set to revolutionize the electric pick-up truck & rugged SUV marketplace by achieving the following:

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure data platform using modern IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices.
• Work closely with software development and systems teams to build Data Integration solutions.
• Design and build Data models using tools such as Lucid, Talend, Erwin, MySQL workbench.
• Define and enhance enterprise data model to reflect relationships and dependencies.
• Review application data systems to ensure adherence to data governance policies.
• Design and build ETL (Python), ELT(Python) infrastructure, automation, and solutions to transform data as required.
• Design and Implement BI dashboards to visualize Trends and Forecasts.
• Design and implement data infrastructure components, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Design, train and deploy ML models
• Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure the data platform meets industry standards and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and business partners to ensure robust and reliable systems.

Location & Travel Expectations:

• This role is based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC.
• The responsibilities of this role require 4-5 days attendance in office with in-person meetings and events regularly. 
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.

What you’ll bring 

We expect all Scout employees to have integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and strive to exhibit a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset. You’ll be comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll take a collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals. Here's what else you'll bring: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience as DataOps Engineer in a manufacturing or automotive environment.
• Experience with streaming and event-based architecture.
• Experience implementing data lakehouse solutions using Databricks.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Proficient in building data pipelines using languages such as Python and SQL.
• Experience with AWS based data services such as Glue, Kinesis, Firehose or other comparable services.
• Experience with Structured, unstructured and time series databases.
• Solid understanding of cloud data storage solutions such as RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Mongo, Cassandra, Influx.
• Several years of experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Proven ability to develop and deploy scalable ML models.
• Hands-on experience in designing, training, and deploying ML models
• Strong ability to extract actionable insights using ML techniques
• Ability to leverage ML algorithms for forecasting trends and decision-making
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. When a problem occurs, you run towards it not away.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills. You treat colleagues with respect. You have a desire for clean implementations but are also humble in discussing alternative solutions and options.

What you'll gain

The benefits of joining Scout include the chance to build products and a company from the ground up.  This is a chance to create something new and lasting – with an iconic brand at its foundation.  In addition, Scout provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights:

• Competitive insurance including:
  • Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
  • An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including:
  • 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
  • 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
  • Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Pay Transparency

This is a full-time, exempt position eligible to receive a base salary and to participate in an annual performance bonus program. Final salary offered will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience. The annual performance bonus program is preset and not candidate dependent.

Initial base salary range = $140,000.00 - $170,000.00

Initial California base salary range = $154,000.00 - $187,000

Internal leveling code: IC8

Method is a global design and engineering consultancy founded in 1999. We believe that innovation should be meaningful, beautiful and human. We craft practical, powerful digital experiences that improve lives and transform businesses. Our teams based in New York, Charlotte, Atlanta, London, Bengaluru, and remote work with a wide range of organizations in many industries, including Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Automotive, Aviation, and Professional Services.

Method is part of GlobalLogic, a digital product engineering company. GlobalLogic integrates experience design and complex engineering to help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. GlobalLogic is a Hitachi Group Company.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Architect to join our Data & AI team. In this leadership role, you will help shape modern data and AI architecture strategies that enable organizations to achieve business outcomes through scalable, reliable, and secure data platforms. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, client teams, and engineering teams to define architectural direction, guide implementation approaches, and support the delivery of data-driven capabilities across analytics, AI, and operational use cases. You will exemplify Method culture and values by driving standards of excellence and mentoring and educating those who are accountable to you on projects or within the data engineering discipline. You will be reporting into the head of the Data & AI team. 

This role requires a strong blend of technical depth, architectural thinking, client engagement and team mentorship. You will be expected to navigate ambiguity, align business and technology priorities, and help teams deliver practical, high-quality solutions that support long-term value creation. In addition to shaping solution direction, you will play an important role in guiding and developing data engineering teams through coaching, knowledge sharing, and hands-on support.

Travel for team, client and sales meetings is required, typically up to 25%. This is a US-based position in the East Coast or Mid-Central time zone.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead complex data and AI platform initiatives, addressing architectural concerns while enabling delivery teams to meet defined standards, timelines, and budgets.
• Provide client-facing technical leadership on data architecture, data engineering, analytics platforms, and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and senior technology stakeholders to align on architectural decisions, trade-offs, and implementation approaches.
• Communicate architectural concepts clearly to both engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Design architectures that bridge operational systems and analytical platforms, enabling data products, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities.
• Define and implement architectures for data governance, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish and integrate data quality frameworks, observability practices, and data reliability processes.
• Partner with sales and pre-sales teams to shape solution approaches, validate technical feasibility, and support proposals.
• Develop new value propositions and offerings for the data engineering at Method, create go to market strategies, test and refine the offerings during the sales pursuits.
• Grow and maintain the data engineering team. Provide career guidance and facilitate career development opportunities across Method. 
• Create an environment that brings together the best of various data disciplines with care for the uniqueness of each project. 
• Foster a culture of curiosity and learning, creating opportunities for employees to learn and grow into our future leaders.

Skills Required
Technical Skills

• 8+  years of experience in data engineering, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role. 
• Experience designing and implementing modern data architectures, including lakehouse, data mesh, and real-time data platforms, and evaluating technology trade-offs.
• Strong background in distributed systems and data-intensive applications.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, including data warehouses, streaming systems, and data lakes.
• Expertise in data modeling, data platform operations, observability, and reliability engineering for data systems.
• Proficiency with modern data and distributed technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Trino/Presto, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, and distributed storage systems.
• Experience designing streaming and low-latency architectures and understanding their operational trade-offs.
• Experience designing and deploying AI/ML platforms, including feature stores, model training pipelines, and model serving systems.
• Familiarity with MLOps and ML productionization practices, including CI/CD, model monitoring, and governance.
• Strong experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar analytics environments.
• Understanding of data governance frameworks, data cataloging, lineage, and privacy controls.
• Experience implementing data-driven decision systems, advanced analytics, and machine learning solutions in enterprise environments.

Professional Skills

• Advise C-suite executives on data strategy, AI investment, and digital transformation at the highest organizational level.
• Strong experience supporting pre-sales, solution shaping, and technical discovery engagements.
• Support client partners in growing key accounts by identifying new opportunities, navigating complex situations, and educating clients on the value of our work beyond data and AI.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trust with both business and technical leaders.
• Ability to cultivate strong partnerships across organizations to drive adoption of modern data and AI capabilities.
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to galvanize, inspire, and align others around a shared direction.
• Contribute Thought Leadership through presentations, blogs, or public talks
• Strong conflict resolution and risk management skills.
• Team player with the capacity to mentor, guide, and champion engineering teams and architects.
• Commitment to technical excellence, pragmatic delivery, and continuous improvement. 

Why Method?

We look for individuals who are smart, kind and brave. Curious people with a natural ability to think on their feet, learn fast, and develop points-of-view for a constantly changing world find Method an exciting place to work. Our employees are excited to collaborate with dispersed and diverse teams that bring together the best in thinking and making. We champion the ability to listen, and believe that critique and dissonance lead to better outcomes. We believe everyone has the capacity to lead and look for proactive individuals who can take and give direction, lead by example, enjoy the making as much as they do the thinking, especially at senior and leadership levels.

We believe in work/life balance. Seriously. We offer a ton of competitive perks, including:

• Continuing education opportunities 
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies 
• Pension 
• Health and dental benefits
• Company lunches, company outings, along with a lot of snacks 
• Health and wellness programs 
• Other location specific perks (just ask!)

Next Steps

If Method sounds like the place for you, please submit an application. Also, let us know if you have a presence online with a portfolio, GitHub, Dribbble or other platform.

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Colorado Applicants (Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Disclosure):  The starting salary range for this role to be performed in Colorado is estimated to be between $160,000 to $200,000 annually.  This salary range is specific to Colorado residents only, and provided as a general estimate.  The amount offered may be higher or lower. Method  takes many factors into making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations. 

New York City Applicants (New York City Local Law 32;  Pay Transparency Law):  The starting salary range for this role to be performed in New York City is from $192,000 to $205,000. This salary range is specific to New York City residents only, and provided as a general, good faith estimate. The amount offered may be higher or lower. Method takes many factors into making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC or New York, NY office (Tuesday through Thursday) and optional remote days on Mondays and Fridays each week.

The Red Platform - Platform Engineering (RPPE) team at Red Ventures is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure our platforms and applications are resilient, scalable, and perform at scale. This is a strategic role focused on engineering reliability through first principles. Designing observability, automation, and operational practices that prevent failures rather than just responding to them.

You'll work in a small, high-impact team managing enterprise-scale systems across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes environments with strict uptime requirements. This role emphasizes building reliability guardrails, comprehensive monitoring, and automation that enable the organization to operate with confidence and velocity.

Curious how Growth and Transformation fits into Red Ventures? Click here.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure system reliability and performance across multi-cloud, multi-region platforms using first principles thinking
• Build and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus) that provide actionable insights into system health and performance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Define, implement, and monitor SLOs/SLIs that align with business-critical SLAs and drive accountability for reliability.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE) with a focus on security hardening, performance, and operational excellence.
• Lead incident response efforts, troubleshoot complex system issues, restore service quickly, and conduct thorough root cause analysis
• Implement preventive measures and reliability improvements based on lessons learned from incidents and system behavior patterns.
• Partner with platform engineers and developers to embed reliability best practices into system architecture and delivery pipelines
• Proactively scale infrastructure capacity based on growth forecasts and traffic patterns.
• Contribute to architecture reviews with a deep focus on reliability, performance, and operational sustainability.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, systematic problem-solving, and operational excellence.

What We’re Looking For:

• 3–5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience leveraging AI/ML tools to enhance observability, including anomaly detection, alert noise reduction, and predictive incident identification
• Experience using generative AI or LLM-based tools to accelerate debugging, runbook creation, and operational knowledge sharing
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and GCP cloud platforms
• Deep Kubernetes expertise (EKS, GKE), including security, networking, and operational best practices
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Experience building and maintaining observability systems (New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies (Harness, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages)
• Proven track record of maintaining high-availability systems (99.9%+ uptime)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and scalability patterns
• Experience with incident management, troubleshooting complex systems, and learning from failures
• Strong first-principles thinking, ability to reason from fundamentals rather than relying solely on existing patterns
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly

Bonus Points For:

• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent)
• Experience with data platform infrastructure (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar)
• Familiarity with security scanning and remediation tools (Wiz, Aqua, Prisma Cloud, or similar)
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) and their operational implications
• Experience with chaos engineering, resilience testing, or systematic failure injection
• Database performance tuning and optimization expertise (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience with log aggregation and analytics platforms (ELK Stack, Splunk, or similar)
• Understanding of cloud security, network architecture, and multi-region deployment patterns
• Familiarity with DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solutions (Netskope, Zscaler, or similar)
• Background working with regulated industries or highly available consumer-facing applications

Why Join Us?:

• Work in a small, high-impact team where your contributions directly shape system reliability and operational practices
• Focus on strategic engineering rather than firefighting. We build monitoring, automation, and guardrails that prevent problems rather than just reacting to them.
• Engage in first-principles thinking and a continuous-improvement culture that values thoughtful design over quick fixes.
• Collaborate across a multi-cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes) supporting diverse, mission-critical workloads.
• Partner with platform engineers, developers, and principal engineers who provide technical guidance and collaboration
• Own reliability for systems that directly impact business outcomes and customer experiences
• Work alongside platform engineers to ensure the platforms they build are operationally sound and reliable at scale.

At Red Ventures, reliability isn't just about keeping systems running; it's about engineering resilience through thoughtful observability, automation, and operational discipline. You'll work with passionate engineers who value systematic problem-solving, learn from failures, and build reliability into every layer of the stack.

Compensation: 

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $100,000 - $145,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe and Puerto Rico. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, RV Education and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

 We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

At Red Ventures, we believe in real human connection. That’s why we do not hire someone through text, social media, or email only. As part of the hiring process, you should expect live conversations with RV teammates before any offer is made. Also, keep an eye on the sender: we only use official @redventures.com email addresses at the portfolio level or business specific email addresses (e.g., @thepointsguy.com), not ones like “redventurescareer.com.” We will never ask candidates to send money, buy equipment, or share financial account info during your journey with us. You can always find our open roles on redventures.com— if you receive a message that seems suspicious, please use redventures.com to verify the opportunity.

For more, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has published helpful articles to help individuals learn more about protecting themselves from recruiter scams. If you think you’ve been targeted, feel free to report it to your local authorities. Stay safe out there!

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The Red Ventures Home and Utility group is looking for a talented Data Engineering Manager to join our team! As a Data Engineering Manager at Red Ventures, you will have the opportunity to build technology that drives real value for the users of our products all aimed at helping people choose best possible services/products for them. You will lead a team tasked with designing, developing, testing, and maintaining big data pipelines to create a foundation that powers our business analytics and machine learning efforts to drive our vision!

For the AllConnect website click here. Curious how Allconnect fits into Red Ventures? Click here.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a team of Data Engineers with varied experience level to design and build data pipelines from various data sources to a target data warehouse using real-time and batch data load strategies utilizing cutting edge cloud technologies.
• Serve as a people leader by directly mentoring and coaching engineers, supporting formal performance review cycles, and providing regular, actionable feedback to drive individual growth and team success.
• Work with a cross functional team of business stakeholders, engineering leaders, data analysts and data scientists to formulate both business and technical requirements.
• Partner with business and data leaders to understand broader business strategies and define a roadmap outlining how the team will support and enable key initiatives
• Establish and enforce standards for documenting data platform designs, including logical and physical data models, metadata, ETL specifications, and end-to-end integration workflows.
• Design processes for ensuring data quality and integrity while providing timely responses to ad hoc requests.
• Lead and execute proof-of-concepts where appropriate to assess, validate, and improve technical processes and approaches

What We’re Looking For:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 3+ years of experience managing a mid size team
• A technical leader who can guide and coach a team of data engineers
• 5+ years of experience in the big data space
• Experience in translating business requirements into technical data solutions on a large scale
• Experience working on Spark (SparkSQL / Data Frames / Dataset API) using Scala/Python to build and maintain complex ETL pipelines.
• Experience with one of the major data warehousing solutions (we use Databricks but welcome candidates with experience in Snowflake, Oracle, Terradata or Redshift)
• 4+ years of experience working on Cloud technologies (we use AWS but welcome candidates with experience in Azure or GCP)
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD processes
• Experience driving operational excellence for large-scale data platforms, including reliability, scalability, performance and cost optimization
• Experience with Compute technologies like EMR and Databricks
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
• Able to work through ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamically changing business environment.

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $130,000 – $205,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com. 

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

At Red Ventures, we believe in real human connection. That’s why we do not hire someone through text, social media, or email only. As part of the hiring process, you should expect live conversations with RV teammates before any offer is made. Also, keep an eye on the sender: we only use official @redventures.com email addresses at the portfolio level or business specific email addresses (e.g., @thepointsguy.com), not ones like “redventurescareer.com.” We will never ask candidates to send money, buy equipment, or share financial account info during your journey with us. You can always find our open roles on redventures.com— if you receive a message that seems suspicious, please use redventures.com to verify the opportunity.

For more, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has published helpful articles to help individuals learn more about protecting themselves from recruiter scams. If you think you’ve been targeted, feel free to report it to your local authorities. Stay safe out there!

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. 

Data & Analytics

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

We deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About the Role and You

Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms for our clients—owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. You’ll run agile delivery teams, guide medallion/lakehouse architectures, and partner with clients to translate business goals into scalable solutions on Snowflake, Azure & Databricks.

What You'll Do

• Own program delivery: Drive planning, execution, risk/issue management, RAID logs, dependencies, and executive status reporting across multi-workstream data initiatives.
• Lead agile teams: Stand up and mature Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management across data engineering, analytics, and platform ops.
• Architectural stewardship: Ensure adherence to medallion (bronze/silver/gold) patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, and governance/quality controls (DQ rules, lineage, observability).
• Cloud & platform delivery: Orchestrate environments, security, and cost controls for Snowflake and Azure (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Key Vault, Purview).
• Client leadership: Serve as the day-to-day executive contact; run steering committees, manage change requests, and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Commercials & quality: Own SOW scope, staffing, and margin; forecast and track budgets; enforce delivery standards and acceptance criteria tied to business KPIs.
• Enablement: Coach PMs and tech leads; codify playbooks/templates for repeatable delivery; contribute to proposals and pre-sales as needed.
• Travel to client sites as needed

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of technology delivery leading data platform or analytics programs in consulting/professional services.
• Proven success managing $1M–$5M+ multi-workstream programs with distributed teams.
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake (warehouses, RBAC, performance/cost tuning) and Azure data services (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, ADLS, networking & security).
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Azure DevOps, release planning, and CI/CD for data (Git-based workflows, environments).
• Practical experience implementing medallion architectures and lakehouse patterns, data modeling, and data quality/observability.
• Stakeholder management at VP/C-suite level; crisp written/oral communication and executive reporting.
• Nice to have: regulated industries, FinOps for data platforms, data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric).

Preferred requirements

• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe; Snowflake SnowPro; Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305) a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Programs delivered on-time/on-budget with measurable business outcomes (e.g., SLA improvements, cost per query reductions, faster time-to-insight).
• Stable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake/Azure platforms with clear operating models and playbooks.
• High client satisfaction (CSAT/NPS) and referenceable accounts.

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $112,500 to $200,000 USD + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion 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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About the Role

The Director of Pricing Strategy is a senior, cross-functional leadership role responsible for owning the full lifecycle of freight pricing, from bid strategy and RFP response through programmatic API-based quoting and real-time margin management. This role sits at the intersection of commercial, data, and technology and serves as the company's authoritative voice on rate strategy, market intelligence, and pricing model architecture.

The ideal candidate combines deep freight industry fluency with hands-on analytical capability and technical literacy to collaborate directly with data science and engineering teams. This is a player-coach role with a mandate to build scalable pricing infrastructure that supports both reactive bid work and proactive revenue optimization.

Core Responsibilities

Bid Management & Commercial Pricing

• Own end-to-end RFP and bid pricing strategy, setting floor/ceiling logic by lane, mode, and customer segment
• Partner with Sales to develop winning bid packages that balance competitiveness with margin integrity
• Build and maintain carrier cost models that feed bid pricing, incorporating fuel, accessorials, and capacity conditions
• Establish pricing governance, approvals, exception handling, and escalation paths for non-standard deals

Market Intelligence & Rate Analytics

• Monitor and synthesize external freight indices, including DAT spot rates, Cass Freight Index, EIA diesel prices, and BLS wage data
• Translate external market signals into actionable pricing adjustments; communicate trends to Sales and Operations leadership
• Maintain competitive rate benchmarks across key lanes and customer verticals
• Develop and maintain a freight cost and revenue forecasting model covering a 2–3-year history, 6–12-month trend direction, and 30–60-day live calibration layers

API & Programmatic Pricing

• Manage integrations with market cost APIs, spot market data feeds, and TMS pricing modules
• Define the business rules and model logic that drive automated quoting and real-time rate responses
• Own the requirements and business logic for any AI-assisted pricing tools or forecasting models built internally

P&L Visibility & Margin Management

• Track cost vs. revenue performance at the load, lane, and customer level
• Partner with Finance to develop pricing-related reporting within the data platform (SQL Server, Databricks)
• Establish margin policies and alert mechanisms for loads trending below threshold

Strategy & Leadership

• Serve as a strategic advisor on pricing positioning, market conditions, and competitive dynamics
• Represent pricing strategy in client-facing meetings, QBRs, and partnership discussions
• Define and report on a monthly pricing performance scorecard for leadership
• Evaluate and recommend third-party tools, data subscriptions, and technology investments that strengthen the pricing function

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of experience in freight pricing, rate analysis, or commercial strategy within a 3PL, brokerage, or asset-based carrier
• Deep knowledge of TL and LTL pricing mechanics
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable working in SQL, Excel, or BI tools to build and validate pricing models
• Track record of collaborating directly with sales, operations, and technology teams in a cross-functional capacity
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex pricing analysis into an executive-ready narrative

Preferred

• Experience with freight data platforms or indices (DAT, Cass, Greenscreens, FreightWaves SONAR)
• Familiarity with Databricks, Sigma, or similar modern data stack tools
• Exposure to machine learning or statistical forecasting models applied to freight pricing
• Experience in a TMS environment (TMW, McLeod, MercuryGate, or similar)

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Microsoft Partnerships Alliances Manager – Global GTM Enablement
Location: New York / Chicago / Charlotte (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Technology & Engineering | Type: Permanent

Drive revenue growth through Microsoft co-sell and strategic alliance execution in Financial Services.

The Role
Capco is seeking a Microsoft Partnerships Alliances Manager to support the execution and enablement of our global Microsoft partnership strategy. This role focuses on go-to-market (GTM) execution, partner operations, sales enablement and performance tracking, ensuring consistent collaboration between Capco and Microsoft across regions.

You will work closely with global and regional stakeholders to operationalise co-sell motions, improve pipeline visibility, and embed Microsoft-aligned propositions into Financial Services sales and delivery teams.

What You’ll Do

• Drive joint pipeline creation with Microsoft across Azure, Data & AI, and Power Platform

• Own and grow Microsoft-influenced revenue within assigned Financial Services accounts

• Activate and lead co-sell motions with Microsoft sellers, including account planning and deal strategy

• Identify, shape, and progress qualified opportunities from early-stage through close

• Partner with Capco leaders to embed Microsoft into account strategies

• Build strong relationships with Microsoft field sales, partner teams, and solution specialists

• Track and report on pipeline, bookings, and co-sell performance metrics

• Represent Capco in joint client meetings, Microsoft engagements, and industry events

What We’re Looking For

• 5–10 years of experience in alliances, partner sales, or direct sales roles within Microsoft ecosystem

• Proven track record of driving pipeline and closing deals in partnership with Microsoft

• Strong understanding of Microsoft co-sell motions, partner ecosystem, and field engagement model

• Experience working in consulting, SI, or technology services organizations

• Strong executive presence and ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders

• Experience managing quota, pipeline targets, or revenue metrics

Bonus Points For

• Exposure to Financial Services clients or transformation programmes

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services including Compute, Networking and Security

• Knowledge of Data & AI platforms such as Copilot, Databricks and Azure AI services

• Experience with Power Platform tools including Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate

• Familiarity with Microsoft co-sell and marketplace programs

Why Join Capco

• Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions

• Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture

• Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications

• Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services

• Help shape the future of digital transformation across FS & Energy.

We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:

• Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, 401(k) with company match, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, life insurance and disability insurance

• Wellbeing Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), mental health resources and wellbeing initiatives

• Time Off: Generous paid time off, paid holidays and flexible working arrangements

• Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 hours of training annually, certifications, e-learning and a dedicated business coach from day one

• Additional Perks: Pre-tax commuter benefits, wellness programs and employee discount platforms

Inclusion at Capco

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.

We have been informed of several recruitment scams targeting the public. We strongly advise you to verify identities before engaging in recruitment related communication. All official Capco communication will be conducted via a Capco recruiter.

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Candidates located anywhere within the Central or Eastern Time Zones are also eligible for consideration for this role.

As a Senior Big Data Solutions Architect (Sr Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the regional Manager/Lead.

The impact you will have:

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
• Work with engagement managers to scope variety of professional services work with input from the customer
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap hands-on projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

What we look for:

• 9+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Apache Spark™ runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Working knowledge of MLOps
• Capable of design and deployment of highly performant end-to-end data architectures
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Experience in building scalable streaming and batch solutions using cloud-native components
• Travel to customers up to 20% of the time
• Nice to have: Databricks Certification

WHAT WE DO

Our Data and Analytics consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Data Strategy
• Data Governance
• Data Modernization
• Advanced Analytics
• Data Visualization

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Have experience understanding and solving real business problems
• Have experience with presenting business case and strategy to the C-Suite
• Bring industry domain knowledge for custom data and analytics strategies
• Experience in designing and implementing data driven products and services
• Experience in designing and building high performance collaborative business and technology teams that deliver high value data solutions, data products and data analytics

Ideal candidates may call themselves Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Data Governance professionals. Experience may include but not limited to the following:  

Data Strategy and Governance

• Intimately familiar with data technologies, data architecture frameworks, cloud platforms and the emerging trends in technological advancements.
• Proven experience in transforming our clients from on-prem data platforms to the cloud.
• Lead data modernization initiatives that include platform, technology and tools implementation and adoption.
• Must have experience in architecting and implementing data architecture, data engineering, reporting and analytical solutions across multiple business functions and domains.
• Conduct data management maturity assessments and identify pain points for including data quality, governance, architecture, analytics, metadata management, master data management.
• Demonstrate a rigorous and analytical problem-solving approach, leading information-gathering sessions and preparing and delivering client presentations and work products/prototypes.
• Identify data governance gaps and assess data governance maturity in a complex data environment. Should also be able to Identify the implications for data governance that arise from the technology, current processes, and skill levels in a complex data environment.

Data Architecture and Engineering

• Extensive experience or knowledge of cloud-based data platform technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Computing.
• Experience designing and building data platforms that support data lakes, data stores, data ingestion and transformations and API services for consuming data
• Ability to design and build complex data pipelines that either stream data in
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages, such as but not limited to Python, Node.JS and SQL
• Experience and knowledge of data integration tools and platforms
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Ability to design and build data models using the appropriate technics to meet business objectives
• In depth knowledge of modern data technologies including Snowflake, RedShift, Azure SQL/Synaspe, Databricks or similar technologies.

Advanced Analytics and Data Visualizations

• Extensive experience or knowledge of data visualization technologies such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik and Spotfire
• Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning software and methods
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as, but not limited to, SQL, Python and R
• Experience with data modeling, data prep and machine learning tools like Alteryx, RapidMinder, RStudio and Tableau Prep
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Experience deploying enterprise-wide reporting solutions while leveraging data visualization best practices

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings