Mariah Szarek

IT Director Our direct client, A growing investment firm seeks an experienced IT Director to assess, refine, and elevate their entire technology function. This is a newly created leadership role for a firm that is scaling rapidly, preparing for increased operational and regulatory demands, and viewing technology as a key lever for growth across the business. The successful candidate will be hands-on, highly articulate, and comfortable advising senior leadership. This individual will be both a builder and a doer—while also operating as a technical expert. The IT Director will own the IT function, develop a forward-looking technology “playbook,” and work cross-functionally to drive measurable outcomes across finance, compliance, investment, and operational teams. Responsibilities • Lead key technology initiatives, including onboarding and integration of new platforms and optimization of existing systems, with particular focus on implementation of a firm-wide data warehouse, enabling front-office investment processes, portfolio monitoring, and investor data management. • Ensure technology, processes, and controls align with SEC requirements, investor expectations, and industry best practices; play a key role during fund raising in supporting LP diligence, including drafting and responding to DDQs and participating directly in investor conversations. • Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current IT environment, including MSP performance, cloud infrastructure, information security programs, data architecture, and application ecosystem; deliver a prioritized roadmap for improvement and remediation. • Lead vendor and product (e.g., CRM, investment management systems, compliance platforms, security tools) evaluations and due diligence, with a focus on scalability, integration, and long-term value. • Review and strengthen cybersecurity programs (MFA, data-loss protection, email security, backup policies, endpoint protection, identity/access management), elevating the firm toward a best-in-class security posture. • Partner closely with firm leadership (including Finance, Portfolio Operations, Legal/Compliance, and Investment teams) to assess needs, prioritize initiatives, and execute solutions across areas such as investor relations, fund accounting, legal entity management, and reporting. Required Experience & Skills • Experience working within a private equity firm is strongly preferred • 10–20+ years of experience in IT, including demonstrated success owning or leading the technology function in a growing organization (80+ users). • Proven experience operating in a build-and-scale environment, assess and create clarity, define a roadmap, align stakeholders, and execute. • Familiarity with RIA/SEC regulatory requirements, investor due diligence processes, and hands-on experience responding to DDQs and supporting fundraising activities. • Experience contributing to or leading data architecture and integration initiatives, including data warehouse design and establishing a “single source of truth.” • Understanding of AI-related workflows and emerging use cases within financial services. • Strong background managing and evaluating MSP providers, including holding vendors accountable and driving improvements beyond standard SOW constraints. • Experience administering and enhancing a cybersecurity program, including Incident response planning, vendor risk management, SOC2 and related control frameworks, pen testing processes, remediation planning, and implementing security controls in regulated environments.

• Hands-on knowledge of common financial-services technologies, such as:

  • Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Office 365)

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Financial platforms i.e. Netsuite

  • CRM and Deal Pipeline Platforms

  • Data/analytics and investment platforms

  • Compliance platforms

  • Email security tools, Identity /Access Management

• Strong verbal communication skills.  Capable of clearly explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influencing senior leadership and investors. • Self-starter with a low-ego, high-impact mindset; able to “figure it out,” bring people along, and operate effectively in a highly collaborative environment.

This role is hybrid on-site, 3-4 days per week, in the Midtown Manhattan office.  

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Artificial Intelligence Engineer – Vice President About the Role iCapital is seeking a Vice President Artificial Intelligence Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across the firm. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer with a track record of shipping complex AI systems end-to-end and someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong cross-functional partnership, architectural judgment, and able to operate as a force multiplier for the team. This individual will own key workstreams and serve as a technical leader, driving system design, mentoring engineers, partnering directly with business stakeholders, and ensuring that AI capabilities are built to production-grade standards of reliability, scalability, and measurability. This role is expected to bring independent judgment on technical approach, a bias toward delivery, and able to translate ambiguous business needs into well-scoped, well-executed solutions. Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of production AI systems, including document intelligence (IDP), intelligent knowledge systems, and agentic orchestration, to power internal and external workflow automation at scale.
• Own AI projects end-to-end, from problem scoping and stakeholder alignment through solution design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, delivering tangible business outcomes with a track record of consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Drive technical design and architectural decisions for the team, including API design, system decomposition, evaluation strategy, and infrastructure patterns, establishing standards that raise the quality bar across the AI/ML platform.
• Architect and champion robust evaluation frameworks for AI systems, defining statistically sound, problem-specific metrics, curating benchmark datasets, and enforcing strict versioning to ensure reproducibility and continuous improvement.
• Partner directly with cross-functional stakeholders, including the Product, Operations, Legal, and Business teams, to identify AI opportunities, translate requirements into technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly.
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team through code review, design review, pair problem-solving, and knowledge sharing, acting as a technical role model and raising the overall capability of the group.
• Identify systemic problems and propose solutions, proactively improving team processes, tooling, and infrastructure to reduce technical debt and increase development velocity.

  Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing production AI/ML systems, including hands-on experience with AWS or cloud-native development patterns for AI/ML workloads and a demonstrated track record of delivering complex systems from inception through production
• Strong proficiency in Python and demonstrated ability to build well-engineered, maintainable software, including adherence to software engineering best practices (i.e. source control, CI/CD, testing, and documentation)
• Deep expertise in at least one of the following: LLM-based systems (fine-tuning, inference optimization, prompt engineering, modern tooling AI tooling, such as transformers, vLLM, or agentic frameworks), document intelligence and IDP, or ML system design (training pipelines, model serving, evaluation infrastructure)
• Experience designing and operating end-to-end ML pipelines in production, including model training, deployment, monitoring, and iteration (MLOps)
• Solid fundamentals in statistics, experimentation, and data quality with the ability to reason rigorously about metrics, error patterns, and the limitations of AI systems
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions within a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to represent the team in cross-functional settings, document technical designs, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience spanning more than one of LLM systems, document intelligence, and ML platform and infrastructure
• Familiar with agentic architectures and protocols (i.e. MCP andA2A) or designing multi-step, tool-using AI workflows
• Knowledge of cost and latency optimization for LLM inference at scale (i.e. quantization, batching strategies, and model routing)
• Prior experience in financial services or FinTech, particularly in document-heavy or compliance-sensitive domains
• Contributions to open-source projects or published technical writing demonstrating thought leadership in applied AI

Benefits The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $200,000.  iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.  

Our direct client, based in White Plains, NY, is seeking a Senior Java Developer who embraces AI-augmented development practices. You will be a part of the transformational journey to deliver best in class systems to support company's business lines, across all channels. The Senior Developer is to collaboratively drive the development and support of client's critical business systems for internal and external systems, while leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality. This role requires deep technical knowledge of high volume and highly transactional systems. Hybrid working model, 4 days per week on site is expected. Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, PMO, DevOps and other developers to define requirements, design, and develop mission critical applications
• Utilize AI development tools to enhance coding efficiency, code review, testing, and documentation processes
• Analyze, design and develop application solutions and enhancements that meet requirements
• Ensure adherence to programming and enterprise architectural standards
• Complete work assignments and perform appropriate follow up to ensure that tasks are completed on time
• Collaborate with product owners, application users, creative team and other developers to define requirements, design, and develop the web application
• Assist in the rollout of new applications, problem fixes, and enhancements of software
• Work alongside AI-enthusiastic technical leads to continuously improve development workflows

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering or similar field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years programming with Java (backend development focus), JEE, Web Services
• Experience with webservice/API development using Java-based enterprise technologies and tools using Java 8 and above, Microservices architecture, Spring and REST
• Must be able to code in prevailing technologies including Java, Spring, SQL including conceptual knowledge with cloud native solutions from AWS
• Proven abilities delivering code with CI/CD development methodologies
• Experience with modern development tools (ideally Eclipse/Intellij, Git, Maven, CI servers, Azure DevOps (or other tools), code review tools)
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design concepts and designing and developing Microservices using the Spring ecosystem
• Knowledge of developing Spring Data access application with AWS RDS or NoSQL data stores
• Conceptual Experience with API design and implementation
• Conceptual Knowledge with container orchestrators and container engines (Docker, AWS ECS)
• Analytical, problem-solving mindset
• Self-driven with minimal supervision
• Experience working on a production-critical system
• Openness to learning and integrating AI tools into development workflow

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience augmenting development with AI tools (e.g., Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms) for code generation, review, and optimization
• Experience with developing within a Cloud environment with good knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS is a plus
• Python scripting experience
• Angular experience strongly preferred for any frontend development needs
• Experience with ecommerce, retail, and financing is a plus

Apply today for immediate consideration! This is an immediate interview and hire opportunity, and an on-site interview at the White Plains, NY office will be required.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer - Consultant  For our direct client in the the B-to-C / hospitality industry, we seek an experienced SalesForce Marketing Cloud developer to join their team for a 12-mo+ contract, to bring their SFMC experience to the company to help them achieve great results from the platform.  This is a remote position in the US, working on East Coast Hours.   Our client is looking to start right away -  apply today for an immediate interview for this position!  

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Sales Force Marketing Cloud Developer serves as the subject matter expert for the Marketing team and is responsible for providing the technical implementation and guidance to enable the team to achieve measurable marketing results using the platform. This dedicated role will fill a critical need, providing deep technical expertise to build, test, optimize, and maintain marketing-initiated projects across the platform. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, highly technical professional who thrives in a collaborative environment. They will possess a broad understanding of both front-end and back-end technologies, the ability to integrate complex data systems, and the creativity to deliver innovative marketing journeys. This role is an exciting opportunity for an expert to drive forward critical marketing automation initiatives and serve as our client's technical expert on Salesforce Marketing Cloud, optimizing platform use across the creative, brand, and database teams. Build, test, and maintain scalable, high-performance marketing automations and communications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage data integration, structure, and modeling to enable highly personalized marketing campaigns. Integrate external data sources into SFMC using REST and SOAP APIs; set up data structures; perform data modeling; support large-scale data extraction and management

• Develop and maintain high-performing email journey automations that leverage personalization, dynamic content, and A/B testing within SFMC

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Brand, Creative, IT, and data analysts to support and execute marketing strategies through advanced technical implementations

• Develop dynamic content and advanced logic using HTML, CSS, AMPscript, SQL, and SSJS. Build custom automations, develop custom Cloud Pages, and enhance out-of-the-box functionality within SFMC

• Lead various technical responsibilities such as platform implementation, system integrations, data imports, and cross-platform synchronization

• Conduct QA testing, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance for marketing programs, ensuring best-in-class user experiences and data integrity

• Collaborate with designers using Figma to translate visual designs into responsive HTML/CSS implementations, ensuring brand consistency across digital experiences

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing Technology, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development and marketing technology, with strong front-end skills

• Deep expertise with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Personalization, Contact Builder, Email Studio, Pop-Ups)

• Advanced proficiency in HTML, CSS, Javascript/Typescript AMPscript, SQL, SSJS

• Experience integrating SFMC with various data systems; eCommerce marketing experience is a plus

• Required experience with CMS platforms, Sitecore being a plus

• Experience collaborating with designers and stakeholders using Figma

• Outstanding problem-solving skills with a proactive, self-starter attitude

• Ability to balance independent execution with collaborative teamwork

• Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills

• Entrepreneurial spirit with ability to adapt to changing business needs

This position is fully remote; however, occasional travel to the company’s Connecticut office will be required for team meetings and business needs. Candidates must be comfortable working a schedule that aligns with Eastern Time business hours.  

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