Mariah Szarek

Vice President of Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Fully Remote – United States Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employment-based visa sponsorship. About the Role

Our client is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for a mission-critical cloud platform and the products built around it.

This is a highly visible leadership role with ownership of engineering execution, technical direction, architecture, security, infrastructure, and team development. The VP will lead an experienced, distributed engineering organization while remaining technically engaged in architecture and production systems.

Working closely with executive and product leadership, this individual will shape engineering strategy, establish investment priorities, improve delivery predictability, and guide the continued evolution of the platform.

The ideal candidate is a proven engineering leader who can operate comfortably with executives while maintaining the technical depth to engage directly with architects and senior engineers.

Key Responsibilities Engineering Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, develop, and retain an experienced engineering organization.
• Establish clear expectations, career paths, technical standards, and accountability.
• Hire and develop senior engineering talent and technical leaders.
• Build a culture of shared ownership across development, code review, releases, and production operations.
• Develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders.

Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Own the technical direction and long-term architecture of a cloud-native platform.
• Guide decisions around scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Partner with senior technical leaders on architecture and platform investments.
• Maintain a strong focus on infrastructure and platform health.
• Evaluate technology investments based on business value, reliability, risk, and cost.

Engineering Delivery & Execution

• Own the engineering lifecycle from intake through release and production support.
• Establish effective SDLC, capacity planning, forecasting, and release management practices.
• Translate business and product priorities into realistic engineering commitments and delivery plans.
• Improve predictability around scope, timelines, dependencies, and risk.
• Maintain strong testing, release quality, and production support processes.
• Align product priorities with engineering capacity and technical realities.

Security, Compliance & Infrastructure

• Oversee technical security controls, remediation efforts, and incident response.
• Guide cloud infrastructure strategy, reliability, disaster recovery, and cost management.
• Ensure production systems remain secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Partner with security and compliance stakeholders on customer and regulatory requirements.

Executive & Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner directly with executive leadership on technology strategy, investment priorities, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Work closely with Product to evaluate technical feasibility and shape the product roadmap.
• Communicate complex technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in customer, partner, RFP/RFI, and security-review discussions as the engineering representative.
• Balance scope, timing, resources, and technical risk to ensure commitments are achievable.

AI-Assisted Engineering

• Advance the organization’s established AI-assisted and agentic software development practices.
• Establish appropriate standards for quality, security, verification, and human oversight.
• Measure the impact of AI adoption across productivity, quality, security, engineering workload, cost, and business value.
• Determine where AI-driven automation is appropriate versus where human review remains essential.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and 2+ years as the senior-most engineering leader for a company, business unit, or comparable organization.
• Strong hands-on architecture experience with cloud-native backend systems.
• Deep understanding of Linux, containerized services, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production reliability.
• Experience with Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven experience building and managing an effective engineering delivery system, including SDLC, capacity planning, forecasting, and release management.
• Experience owning security controls, remediation, and incident response within a regulated, audited, or security-sensitive production environment.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools and workflows in production.
• Ability to work directly with executives, customers, and other senior stakeholders and clearly communicate technical tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineers within lean or distributed organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated career stability with meaningful multi-year tenures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, clinical research, or other regulated environments.
• Experience with both relational and document databases.
• Experience driving organization-wide adoption of AI-assisted software development.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and data-intensive applications.
• Experience with React or modern front-end architectures.
• Experience leading engineering organizations within companies of approximately 50–300 employees.
• Experience supporting platforms serving significant daily user volumes.
• Background in marketing technology, digital platforms, advertising, or campaign/data-driven products.

Why This Role?

• Lead an experienced engineering organization supporting a mission-critical technology platform.
• Partner directly with executive and product leadership to shape technology strategy and investment.
• Influence architecture, security, infrastructure, engineering delivery, and AI adoption.
• Work with a technically strong team in a modern cloud-native environment.
• Help advance an established AI-assisted engineering culture.
• Fully remote within the United States.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Java Our client is a large, technology-driven organization seeking an experienced Manager, Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for business-critical applications and digital platforms. This role combines people leadership, technical fluency, delivery ownership, and business partnership. You’ll manage and develop senior software engineers and technical leads while providing the direction, coaching, staffing, prioritization, and support needed to deliver high-quality software. The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader who can balance people, technology, delivery, and business priorities while helping teams continuously improve. Key Responsibilities Engineering Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and technical leads through feedback, goal setting, performance management, and career development.
• Build effective teams through hiring, staffing, onboarding, and clear accountability.
• Support the growth of senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.

Delivery & Business Partnership

• Own delivery across scope, quality, timelines, dependencies, risk, budget, and operational readiness.
• Partner with product, architecture, QA, operations, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into executable plans.
• Help teams prioritize initiatives, communicate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Manage staffing and budgets for significant software initiatives.

Technical Leadership

• Enable technical leads to drive architecture, design, code quality, and day-to-day engineering execution.
• Guide teams working with technologies including Java, Angular, AWS, APIs, microservices, databases, and cloud platforms.
• Promote strong practices around automated testing, CI/CD, observability, production support, and reliability.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Use engineering and team-performance metrics to improve delivery, quality, and reliability.
• Strengthen incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
• Support responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development, with appropriate human oversight, security, privacy, and quality controls.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Proven experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams, including senior or lead-level engineers.
• Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, production support, performance, and reliability.
• Experience leading complex, business-critical software initiatives using Java, Angular, AWS, or comparable modern technologies.
• Experience partnering with business and product leaders to define priorities, communicate technical tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes.
• Experience managing staffing, delivery planning, dependencies, risk, and budgets for significant technology initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, distributed systems, DevOps, automated delivery, and observability.
• Experience managing multiple teams, technical leads, vendors, or distributed engineering partners.
• Experience using engineering metrics to improve delivery and team performance.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development and modern engineering practices.
• Experience in high-volume, customer-facing, transactional, retail, ecommerce, financial services, or similarly complex environments.

Why This Role

• Lead and develop experienced software engineers and technical leaders.
• Influence engineering culture, delivery practices, and technical execution.
• Work on business-critical digital platforms with significant organizational impact.
• Help shape modern software engineering and responsible AI adoption.
• Competitive compensation, annual bonus eligibility, and comprehensive benefits.
• Compensation: $140,000–$180,000 Base + Annual Bonus

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Our direct client, based in White Plains, NY, is seeking an AI-forward Technical Lead who leverages cutting-edge AI tools to transform software development processes. This is a long-term contract position (12-36+ months) with likely extension beyond. This role is a hybrid on-site position and you will be required to work on-site 4 days per week in White Plains, NY.

In this role, the Java Tech Lead will champion the integration of AI into every aspect of the development lifecycle while maintaining responsibility for the overall design, implementation and quality of the code the team produces across one or more projects. You will be expected to proactively identify opportunities to enhance development efficiency, code quality, and team productivity through AI tools and processes. You will partner with IT leadership, architecture, and development staff to establish AI-enhanced vision, strategy and road maps that align with business strategies and organizational priorities. You must collaborate with peers and leadership to leverage AI-driven knowledge and solutions across the organization.

This position is within a development group focused on leading the delivery of best-in-class systems to support client's business lines, across all channels. These include customer and internal applications built on AWS using Microservices Architecture and other AWS components that integrate with existing on-prem systems and databases.

Organizational Relationships:

The Technical Lead reports to the Director of Development and is accountable for daily status on tech design, development, and resource management. The Lead will collaborate with team members to define requirements, design, and develop mission critical applications while continuously exploring and implementing AI-enhanced workflows.

The Technical Lead works with:

• Delivery leads to staff projects with associates, contractors, and/or third party teams
• Project managers on a plan and estimates
• Architecture and delivery leads on solution blueprints
• QA and delivery leads on functional testing, integration testing, performance testing and to triage defects
• Service introduction on hand-off to application operations team

Qualifications:

• Proven experience utilizing AI tools for Java software development including code generation, review, documentation, testing, and debugging (e.g., Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms)
• Proactive, self-directed mindset for identifying and implementing AI-driven process improvements without waiting for top-down directives
• Strong prompt engineering skills and commitment to continuous exploration of emerging AI tools to enhance development workflows
• 8+ years experience in Java backend development demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility
• Experience leading a team of 3 or more software developers and mentoring them in AI-enhanced development practices
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Experience producing solution designs for large-scale, highly available, mission-critical systems
• Proficient in designing, creating and consuming Web Services (REST, JSON, OAuth), multi-tier or microservice applications in Java and large scale database applications
• Strong experience in SQL and data modeling
• Demonstrate sound architecture skills and broad experience designing applications
• Ability to communicate complex technical design concepts and translate into non-technical business solutions
• Able to communicate well with all levels in the organization, and must be comfortable as a primary contact to internal and external customers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall and other software development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with developing within a Cloud environment with good knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Q and Hero (current company AI tools)
• Python scripting experience
• Angular experience strongly preferred for any frontend development needs
• Experience with ecommerce, retail, and financing is a plus

To ensure a fair and secure hiring process, candidates must complete live video interviews with cameras on and present valid government-issued identification during the process. All interviews are conducted directly with our internal team - proxy interviewing is not permitted.

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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

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Lead Software Engineer - Java (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship. About the Role

Our client, a large enterprise organization undergoing continued digital transformation, is seeking a Technical Lead – Application Development to help design and deliver modern, scalable applications that support core business operations and customer-facing platforms.

This role will lead technical design, development quality, and engineering best practices across multiple initiatives. The ideal candidate is both a strong hands-on engineer and a technical leader who can guide teams, influence architecture, and collaborate across business and IT stakeholders.

You’ll work closely with architecture, delivery, QA, and product teams to deliver highly available applications built in cloud-native environments and integrated with enterprise systems.

This role will be on site 4 days per week in White Plains and will require an on site interview. Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Lead technical design, architecture, and code quality across one or more development initiatives.
• Produce scalable, highly available solution designs for mission-critical applications.
• Partner with architecture and engineering leadership to align technology strategy with business priorities.
• Establish development standards, best practices, and reusable technical patterns.

Application Development

• Design, develop, and support modern applications using Java, microservices, and API-driven architectures.
• Build and integrate RESTful web services and enterprise applications.
• Support applications running in cloud environments, including AWS-based architectures.
• Work across both modern cloud platforms and existing enterprise systems/databases.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with project managers on estimates, planning, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with QA teams to support functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Coordinate with operations teams to ensure successful application deployment and production support.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for stakeholders across IT and business teams.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor software engineers while supporting delivery execution.
• Help staff projects and coordinate work across internal teams, contractors, and third-party resources.
• Promote strong engineering practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience with Java, including increasing technical responsibility.
• Experience leading development teams of 3+ engineers.
• Strong experience designing scalable, highly available enterprise systems.
• Expertise building REST APIs, microservices, and multi-tier applications.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and data modeling.
• Experience designing and integrating enterprise applications.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid development environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building applications in AWS or cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise customer-facing or transactional platforms.
• Experience in industries such as retail, ecommerce, financial services, automotive, or similar high-volume environments.

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Senior Java Developer - Full Time 

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: $130,000 – $140,000 Base + Bonus Eligible  Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

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

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Vendor Performance & Quality Manager - Long-term consultant - Hybrid Location: Montvale, NJ (Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite: Tue/Wed/Thu) Duration: Long-term contract (12–24 months+) Environment: Microsoft C# / .NET, Azure, global enterprise applications Overview We are looking for a senior consultant to join our client's technology team on a long-term basis. You will work alongside the Operations and Support teams to manage and improve the performance of the vendor partners that build and support the firm's global software applications. This is a hands-on, experienced role, not a junior or ticket-routing position. You will dig into recurring issues, find the root cause, and work with suppliers and technology vendors to stop them from coming back. You will also help smooth out communication and collaboration between the client's teams and the vendors' teams. Responsibilities •    Act as a liaison and escalation point between the Operations/Support teams and the vendors who build and support the Audit applications. •    Analyze incident and ticket data to find recurring issues and trends, and lead root cause analysis with the vendors. •    Hold suppliers accountable for corrective and preventive actions, SLAs and quality, so that repeat issues decline over time. •    Improve communication, cooperation and working relationships between client and vendor teams. •    Coordinate across onshore and offshore vendor teams and global stakeholders in multiple time zones. •    Facilitate vendor reviews, status meetings and escalations, and report on vendor performance, issue trends and risks to leadership. •    Partner with Operations and Support leads to improve incident, problem and change management processes and documentation. •    Apply sufficient technical depth across C#/.NET, Azure, SQL Server, APIs, integrations, logging, monitoring, and infrastructure dependencies to independently investigate issues, challenge technical explanations, evaluate fixes, and identify operational risks. Required Experience •    10–20 years of experience in IT, including significant time in enterprise software environments.

• Experience conducting production environment health and capacity reviews, using application and infrastructure telemetry to identify performance degradation, resource constraints, abnormal trends, and potential availability risks.
• Experience with production monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, KQL, SQL Server monitoring, and application-level logging.
• Understanding of capacity, performance, availability, and resiliency management in Azure-based enterprise application environments

•    Proven experience managing software vendors and suppliers, including issue management, escalations and performance accountability. •    Track record of identifying recurring problems, driving root cause analysis and getting vendors to deliver lasting fixes. •    Strong technical background in a Microsoft C#/.NET development environment and Azure-centric architecture. This is a hands-on technical background, not just a management title. •    Experience working in a global organization with onshore/offshore vendors and stakeholders. •    Excellent communication and relationship skills. You should be able to influence people outside your reporting line and navigate friction diplomatically. •    Working knowledge of ITIL-based incident, problem and change management. Nice to Have •    Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools. •    Experience with audit, financial or professional services applications. •    ITIL, Azure or PMP certifications; bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Benchmark IT, LLC and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here: https://bmarkits.com/privacy-policy/

Data Engineer - DataBricks - Long-term contract, Hybrid

• Location: Montvale, NJ (3 days per week on-site)

• Duration: 1-Year Consulting Contract (with potential for conversion/long-term extension)

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled and adaptable Data Engineer to join our client's Data & Analytics team, in a critical and interesting role helping build a platform used globally by the company's offices and customers.  In this position, you will play a vital role in helping the teams connect with and migrate to a centralized, highly scalable data platform. You will build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and load (ITL) pipelines, partnering closely with architecture, AI, and global stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Platform and Pipeline Development: Own the design, development, and implementation of robust data pipelines that ingest, transform, and load structured and unstructured data into the data platform.

• Platform Migration Support: Drive the migration and onboarding of analytics workflows  onto theenterprise platform while strictly honoring data and metadata residency and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) standards.

• Core Tech Stack & AI Integration: Build scalable data solutions primarily using Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow), with additional exposure to Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. Leverage AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Copilot, Claude) to accelerate delivery and operationalize AI agent/advanced analytics inputs.

• Data Quality & Validation: Champion data quality by developing and implementing rigorous validation frameworks ensuring the reliability of transactional and audit data sources.

• Stakeholder & Global Collaboration: Collaborate with directors,  architecture teams, and international offices and stakeholders to align on requirements, manage expectations, and support deployment.

• Growth & Mentorship: Balance hands-on technical execution (approx. 70%) with architectural design, cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership to help shape the future of the data platform solutions.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 3 to 10+ years of professional data engineering experience building scalable data solutions for advanced analytics and enterprise platforms. We are open to diverse experience levels for candidates eager to grow and take on leadership ownership.

• Primary Technology Expertise: Hands-on mastery of Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow). Additional familiarity with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory) and Snowflake is a strong plus.

• Programming Skills: Strong, independent programming skills in SQL (complex queries, performance tuning), Python (pandas, PySpark, reusable modules), and Apache Spark (Spark SQL, DataFrames, distributed processing).

• Environment & Tools: Experience with data preparation, Azure AI Search or similar tooling, and integration into AI-driven workflows. Proficiency with Agile methodologies, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Soft Skills & Location: Excellent problem-solving, communication, and project management skills to interface effectively with local and global stakeholders. Must be able to work on-site in the Montvale, NJ office 3 days per week (Mondays and Fridays from home)

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Client Delivery Automation Specialist – Full Time - Hybrid About the Role Our client, a leading wealth management technology and data solutions firm, is seeking a Client Delivery Specialist to join its Automation team within the Data Solutions organization in Stamford CT and Salt Lake City UT. This role ensures a seamless flow of financial data for the firm’s clients and internal teams, supporting business-critical processes from portfolio management system conversions to performance reconciliation. Responsibilities

• Lead data conversion projects, including extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data between portfolio management systems: understanding source system requirements, mapping data to new system standards and managing the conversion of large datasets from legacy systems.
• Integrate historical financial data by converting complex, unstructured data files and statements into structured formats suitable for backfilling.
• Support automated data feeds, troubleshooting issues and ensuring the seamless transformation of daily transactions and positions into source system imports.
• Respond to ad-hoc data requests from client-facing teams with timely, accurate information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in finance, computer science, statistics, mathematics, data science, or a similar field.
• 2–5+ years in the financial industry with a proven track record of financial product support, technical proficiency, and solid accounting knowledge.
• Hands-on Addepar expertise (required), plus familiarity with other portfolio management systems such as Advyzon, APX, Axys, Black Diamond, Orion, Ridgeline, or Tamarac.
• Strong background working with financial custodial data and supporting alternative investment instruments.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and text file manipulation; familiarity with JSON, XML, and unstructured-to-structured data transformation is a plus.
• Experience with at least one of Python, SQL, Power Automate, or other large-dataset tools, with the ability to extract and transform data.
• Demonstrated history of automating data-related processes, such as data integration, including log file creation and maintenance.
• Understanding of Salesforce, Monday.com, Jira, and GitLab.
• Comfort working with a geographically dispersed team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; comfortable communicating with clients as needed.
• Working toward or holding an MS/MBA, CFA, CAIA, or CFP is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits Competitive compensation package including base salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Benefits include 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). Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.