Sylvia Bier

Sr. Manager, Data Engineering & Analytics  For our direct client in Northern New Jersey, a prestigious global firm, we seek an experienced technology & database leader to lead the data and analytics applications within a large global application platform.  This is a long-term contract role 12-36 months+ ) and requires 3 days/week onsite to work with the team.  In this role, the candidate will lead the technology roadmaps and technology strategy, design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise data platforms and analytics solutions. This role owns technical direction and strategy, delivery outcomes, and team leadership for data initiatives that support business decision-making, operational efficiency, and long-term data strategy. This is a hands-on leadership role—setting architecture and standards, managing delivery across vendors and internal teams, and serving as the senior technical partner to business and IT stakeholders. Key Responsibilities

• Build and own the technology strategy for the D&A portfolio.
• Own the end-to-end data engineering and analytics solution portfolio, from strategy through implementation and ongoing optimization
• Lead and mentor data engineers and consultants, providing technical direction, standards, and delivery oversight
• Establish and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in the company's international offices.
• Partner with business leaders and product owners to translate objectives into scalable data architectures and roadmaps
• Define and evolve enterprise data platforms leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks and complementary cloud technologies
• Oversee design and implementation of data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and reporting pipelines
• Establish and enforce best practices for data governance, security, quality, and compliance
• Manage delivery with internal teams and external development partners, ensuring timelines, quality, and ROI
• Evaluate emerging data, analytics, and AI/ML technologies and lead proof-of-concept initiatives where appropriate
• Support executive reporting, KPI frameworks, and advanced analytics use cases across multiple business domains

Required Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or data architecture, with leadership responsibility
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data platforms and modernization initiatives
• Strong expertise with cloud data ecosystems (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP experience a plus)
• Hands-on understanding of Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, data lakes, data warehouses, and modern analytics architectures
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Spark, and data integration frameworks
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, and cross-functional delivery teams
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and executive stakeholders

Preferred Experience

• Financial services, fintech, or regulated enterprise environments
• Exposure to AI/ML, MLOps, or GenAI pilots within analytics platforms
• Background establishing centers of excellence or data standards at scale

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Associate Director, Digital Marketing 

For our direct client, a highly successful, well-established company at a pivotal moment in its digital evolution and launching major new e-commerce initiatives, we seek an experienced digital marketing leader to join their team.  This newly created Associate Director - Digital Marketing role is a key position with terrific growth potential, to help modernize the customer journey and drive measurable growth.

This is a hands-on digital leadership role for someone who can set strategy and execute—owning website performance, conversion optimization, testing, and digital initiatives while working closely with IT, media partners, and creative teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the digital conversion and optimization strategy, improving lead quality, funnel performance, and conversion rates.

• Lead website strategy and ongoing enhancements, including UX, content effectiveness, and performance optimization.

• Partner with paid media teams to ensure SEM, SEO, display, and social efforts effectively support the pre-purchase journey.

• Design and execute A/B and multivariate testing across websites, landing pages, and digital funnels.

• Translate data into clear insights, KPIs, and recommendations for senior marketing leadership.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Brand, Creative, Customer Acquisition, and IT to deliver integrated digital initiatives.

• Play a central role in the company’s upcoming eCommerce launch and evolution.

• Manage and hold accountable external partners (media agency, UX consultants, web vendors).

• Lead and develop a small team while remaining deeply hands-on.

Experience and Skills Desired:

• 7–10+ years of progressive experience in digital marketing within a consumer-facing environment.

• Strong background in CRO, website optimization, analytics, and digital testing.

• Experience influencing or partnering on paid media strategy (hands-on planning is a plus).

• Working experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud / CRM platforms; GA4 required, Tableau a plus.

• Proven ability to run complex digital projects end-to-end, not just manage agencies.

• Comfortable working closely with technical teams and external partners.

• Leadership style that is collaborative, practical, and not overly corporate.

• Experience in luxury goods, hospitality, travel or premium consumer brands strongly preferred

Why This Role:

• Newly created position with real ownership and visibility

• Opportunity to shape the future of digital and eCommerce for a respected luxury brand

• Hybrid work model (3 days onsite) and strong benefits, great company culture with long-term company tenure and employee loyalty.  Relocation needs will be considered.  Company HQ is in the Norwalk, CT area and 3 days onsite is genuinely needed for collaborating with team members and stakeholders.  

If you’re a digitally fluent marketer who enjoys building and optimizing customer journeys—and wants to make a tangible impact at a premium company—this role is worth exploring.

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Senior Process Intelligence Consultant (Celonis) Contract - Hybrid - NYC We are seeking a Senior Process Intelligence Consultant with deep expertise in the Celonis platform to help elevate enterprise-wide process mining and automation capabilities. In this role, you will partner with cross-functional business leaders to identify process inefficiencies, translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions, and deliver measurable value through Celonis-driven initiatives. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of process intelligence engagements, from opportunity identification through value realization. This position plays a critical role in expanding our global Process Intelligence Center of Excellence and scaling process mining, automation, and AI-driven transformation across the organization. Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Celonis process intelligence initiatives from discovery through implementation and value tracking
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable Celonis-based solutions
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to identify process gaps, root causes, and automation opportunities
• Apply structured problem-solving methodologies to drive measurable operational improvements
• Leverage Celonis capabilities including:
  • Process Mining
  • Conformance Checking
  • Automation
  • AI-powered insights
• Partner with data engineering and technical teams to enable data ingestion and pipeline configuration
• Identify scalability opportunities and continuously improve implementation playbooks
• Drive executive-level communication with data-driven recommendations and business cases
• Serve as a thought leader within the Process Intelligence community

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in process improvement, operational excellence, management consulting, or transformation roles
• Hands-on experience implementing and delivering projects using Celonis
• Celonis Certification (or willingness to obtain immediately)
• Strong experience applying structured problem-solving methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent)
• Experience leading cross-functional stakeholder workshops
• Strong data storytelling and visualization skills
• Ability to operate in complex, matrixed enterprise environments
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data pipeline architectures and large-scale system integrations
• Lean Six Sigma certification
• PMP or equivalent project management certification
• Exposure to enterprise cloud environments and analytics ecosystems

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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, 3 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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Data Architect - Contract - Onsite For our direct client in the Greenwich, CT area, we seek an experienced Data Architect consultant to lead a structured data warehouse initiative. This engagement will assess current departmental data environments, design a scalable target-state architecture, and deliver a proof of concept. This is a milestone-driven project focused on roadmap design, ETL strategy, governance foundation, and executive-ready documentation to support phased implementation. Project Objectives

• Assess existing data architecture, platforms, and data flows across departments
• Design a centralized data warehouse architecture (cloud, hybrid, or on-prem)
• Define ETL/ELT integration framework to consolidate disparate data sources
• Establish foundational data governance and security model
• Deliver a proof of concept

Key Responsibilities Current-State Assessment

• Conduct interviews with data owners and technical stakeholders
• Inventory data sources, platforms, and integration points
• Identify gaps, redundancies, and risks across systems

Target-State Architecture

• Design future-state data warehouse architecture
• Define conceptual and logical data models
• Recommend tooling and platform strategy
• Outline ETL/ELT ingestion and integration patterns

Governance & Security

• Define data ownership, stewardship, and access models
• Establish data standards and governance principles
• Recommend security and risk mitigation practices

Proof of Concept & Roadmap

• Develop proof of concept integrating 2-3 departments
• Define measurable success criteria
• Deliver implementation roadmap with milestones
• Provide documentation and knowledge transfer

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Data Architect with strong ETL/ELT expertise
• Experience designing enterprise data warehouse or lakehouse architectures
• Strong data modeling skills (conceptual & logical)
• Experience integrating legacy and modern systems
• Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms (Azure preferred)
• Experience establishing data governance frameworks
• Strong stakeholder communication and executive presentation skills

Preferred

• Experience in decentralized or multi-department environments
• Exposure to analytics modernization or AI-ready architecture planning
• Relevant cloud or data platform certifications

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VP, Information Security Engineer - Permanent - Hybrid For our direct client, a financial firm in midtown NYC, we seek an experienced Vice President Information Security Engineer to join the IS team. This role will establish and manage cloud security programs, build new security architecture, automation, enforce application security processes and continuously find security gaps across technology. The ideal candidate is an experienced individual contributor and leader who can do research, design and implement security technologies, manage small teams of engineers, and is able to connect teams cross-functionally. Responsibilities

• Build and manage Cloud Security Programs for AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure, providing continuous monitoring and resolution of all the vulnerabilities in our cloud environment.
• Implement resolutions of security misconfigurations.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to rethink routine, embrace new best practices, and drive the adoption of technology standards.
• Build automation capabilities to monitor and alert infrastructure for AWS maintenance.
• Evolve, build and continuously test new cloud infrastructure capabilities for secure designs and functions.
• Build processes and automation capabilities for application code security reviews, workflows, and testing in collaboration with developers.
• Assist the SOC in building detection and alert capabilities.
• Develop workflows for SaaS security programs.
• Assist the Risk and Governance teams with policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps and Security Engineering, to deliver security projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in Cloud Environment, AWS preferred, for 10+ years to establish security cloud infrastructure
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar certifications are preferred
• Commitment to staying at the forefront of cloud security trends, emerging threats, and evolving technologies
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) or systems engineering and scripting in Java/Python
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to influence stakeholders and drive tasks to completion

  Benefits The base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $180,000. Our client 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, subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision 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. 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/

AI & Data Strategy Consultant – Financial Services – Hybrid Onsite For our direct client, a financial firm in midtown NYC, we seek an experienced AI  & Data Strategy Consultant to do some initial discovery and then implement some practical, firm-wide AI and automation. This engagement focuses on identifying high-impact, realistic AI use cases across asset management, finance, and reporting, working primarily with unstructured deal data (PDFs, Excel models, Word documents stored in SharePoint and shared drives). The client is not pursuing a large-scale data re-architecture and is seeking a pragmatic practitioner who can lead discovery, validate feasibility, and define actionable next steps. This position requires 3-4 days/week initially in the Midtown NYC office, in order to conduct discovery sessions and work with the client team.   Responsibilities

• Lead a structured AI discovery effort across asset management, finance, and reporting teams
• Assess unstructured data sources (SharePoint, shared drives, deal folders) and current workflows
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI and automation opportunities with clear ROI
• Evaluate approaches for search and insight extraction across historical deal data
• Define and, where appropriate, prototype practical solutions (e.g., secure AI search, RAG-based insights, workflow automation)
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and an external IT/AI advisor to ensure feasibility, security, and governance
• Present clear findings, recommendations, and proposed pilot initiatives to senior leadership

Desired Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience applying AI in private equity, real estate, asset management, or financial services
• Strong understanding of working with unstructured data using modern AI techniques
• Experience in Microsoft-centric environments (SharePoint, Excel, Microsoft 365; Copilot Studio a plus)
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and lead discovery before solution design
• Practical, business-oriented mindset with skepticism toward AI “hype”
• Proven ability to deliver solutions that reduce manual effort and improve accuracy

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For our direct client, a prestigious global firm, we seek an experienced hands-on AI Red Team tester to join their team, for a long-term contract. This contract can be done remotely, is 40 hours/week, and is open to a credentialed security professional located in the US. The Global Red Team Tester will conduct testing of AI models to find vulnerabilities, develop new evaluation frameworks, communicate risks to stakeholders across the global teams, collaborate with defensive and development teams, and mentor junior team members. Key Responsibilities:  

• Conduct red team exercises simulating real-world deployment scenarios and edge cases. Systematically probe for bias, toxicity, misinformation generation, and other harmful outputs across diverse contexts and demographics. Improve firm’s security posture against emerging AI threats. Concentration is on executing standardized security tests.
• Design and execute comprehensive adversarial testing campaigns against AI models, including but not limited to large language models, multimodal systems, and autonomous agents.
• Research attack vectors and prompt injection techniques to identify model vulnerabilities, jailbreaks, and unintended behaviors. Evaluate and introduce AI Security tools that decrease mean time to detect and respond to AI-specific threats.
• Create adversarial datasets and benchmarks to evaluate model robustness under various attack conditions.
• Collaborate with security teams (e.g., GSOC, member firm security teams, developers) to perform red teaming activities, and document and present findings, vulnerabilities, and remediation recommendations to drive the mitigation of identified risks
• Develop and maintain process documentation, create reports on testing activities, track operational metrics, and perform other programmatic tasks as required to support the AI Red Team's function.

Skills and experience desired:

• Minimum 5 years of penetration testing or red team operations experience.
• Background in AI red teaming, web application penetration testing, application/network penetration testing, red team operations, or cyber security.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence.
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, software applications, cloud computing, and networking.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across geographies and time zones.

Core technical skills include: • Testing tools: SPLX, Garak, TextAttack, PyRIT, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nessus, Cobalt Strike/Mythic/C2, NMAP, sqlmap, or similar tools (familiar with some of these tools or similar) • Web application technologies and layer 7 protocols (HTTP, DNS, FTP) • Technical experience in Generative AI, Agents, A2A, and/or MCP • Programming languages: Python, Ruby, Go, PowerShell, bash or similar (familiar with some of these languages or similar)??????

• Computer science, information technology, or cybersecurity degree (Bachelor's or higher preferred) from an accredited college or university or equivalent work experience.

• Certifications: OSCP, GPEN, GPXN, AI Red Teamer Job Role Path (HackTheBox), AISEC+, or other industry AI or Red Team related certifications desired 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/

Job Title: Senior Director - Azure Software Product Development Location: Northern NJ (Hybrid, 3+ days/week onsite) Type: Contract-to-Hire (3–6 months conversion window) Overview: For our direct client, a leading global professional services company, we seek a high-caliber IT leader to help drive the next phase of growth for a large-scale software product development initiative. This role is ideal for a strategic, execution-focused professional with deep experience managing complex, Azure-based product development programs across global teams. Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a large, multi-track software development program, managing multiple solution teams across various application development streams.
• Define and evolve the product vision in alignment with business strategy and customer needs.
• Drive planning, execution, and delivery across Azure-based development projects, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.
• Collaborate closely with global stakeholders, engineering, and product leadership to ensure cohesive execution.
• Promote a culture of teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement within a hybrid work environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience leading complex, enterprise-scale software development programs.
• Proven success delivering cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Strong global delivery experience, including working with distributed teams and international stakeholders.
• Background in product management and product strategy, ideally in a consulting or enterprise SaaS environment.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Must be able to work onsite in the Northern NJ office at least 3 days per week.

Engagement Details:

• Initial contract with intention to convert to full-time after 3–6 months.
• High-visibility role working directly with executive leadership.
• Opportunity to shape the future of a strategic product for a world-class organization.

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