Vertical Relevance

• Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their “cloud journey” • Consult, plan, design, and implement security solutions on the cloud customers • Design and automate security and compliance solutions • Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers

• Deliver end-to-end ML/AI solutions from problem framing through deployment and monitoring • Design scalable AI/ML architectures using AWS and GCP services • Optimize RAG pipelines including chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, and re-ranking • Develop retrieval evaluation frameworks (Recall@K, Precision@K, MRR, nDCG) • Design and implement knowledge graphs and ontologies • Build data ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data • Deploy solutions using AWS tools such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, and OpenSearch • Implement self-hosted embedding models in secure environments • Ensure compliance with PHI/PII data security requirements • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and act as a technical advisor • Mentor team members and contribute to technical thought leadership

• Partner with customers to shape their cloud adoption journey, providing both technical and strategic guidance • Design, plan, and implement secure cloud architectures aligned with business and compliance requirements • Serve as a trusted advisor and deep technical resource to customers • Design and implement automated security and compliance solutions in AWS • Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform • Build and operate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) for security automation • Develop Python-based automation for provisioning, compliance enforcement, and remediation • Implement AWS Control Tower guardrails and Service Control Policies (SCPs) • Configure AWS Config rules with automated remediation workflows • Develop and enforce policy-as-code frameworks (preventative, detective, responsive controls) • Align implementations with industry standards such as CIS AWS Foundations • Design and deploy centralized security monitoring and analytics frameworks • Implement AWS-native security services, including: Security Hub (centralized findings aggregation), GuardDuty (threat detection), Macie (sensitive data discovery), Inspector (vulnerability management) • Enable observability and auditing via CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and CloudWatch • Build self-service account provisioning frameworks using CI/CD pipelines • Develop scalable landing zone and account baseline architectures • Create reusable Terraform modules and automation frameworks • Design reference architectures and implementation playbooks • Create high-quality technical content (playbooks, runbooks, white papers, reference architecture)

• Guide customers through cloud adoption and transformation • Design and implement AWS data solutions and data lakes • Manage AWS Glue Data Catalog and governance solutions • Migrate SQL Server workloads to AWS (RDS, Aurora)

Title: AWS DevSecOps /Security & Compliance Cloud Consultant Location: ShortHills, NJ Job Description: Full Time Mid Level Summary Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee in our work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of software systems. He/she will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed, testable code. As an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience and organization skills needed to drive customer success. At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are you ready to join the team? Responsibilities - Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their “cloud journey”. - Consult, plan, design, and implement security solutions on the cloud customers - Design and automate security and compliance solutions - Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust - Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud - Innovate on behalf of customers and translate your thoughts into action yielding measurable results. - Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend expansion of capabilities through enhanced and new offerings. - Assist with technical briefs that document solutions - Assist with reference architecture implementations - Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership: - Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts - Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies Qualifications - Professional experience architecting/operating automated Security & Compliance / DevSecOps solutions built on AWS Experience in software/technology customer facing experience - Knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS, · - Proficiency in policy-as-code frameworks (OPA) · - Experience designing compliance-as-code strategies and custom controls (SCPs, Config Rules) - Strong audit-readiness advisory and evidence-collection expertise - Skilled in risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting - Familiarity with Agile project governance and backlog management - Lead discovery workshops to identify in-scope controls, services, and stakeholders Sample Activities You’ll Do Creating a Self-Service Account Framework - Assist Customer with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates - Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples - Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration - Account Framework - Developing an automated Continuous Delivery Pipeline framework that will be used to establish AWS Accounts to configured, tested infrastructure on AWS in a repeatable, reliable and secure manner eliminating the need for manual intervention. - Security Control Policies - Development of the Service Control Policies and account baselines associated with the Customer’s security and compliance requirements - Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook Creating Security Threat Analytics and Dashboard Solutions - Creating a framework to automatically gather, transform and interpret security event data in AWS. - Selecting, defining, identifying security requirements and determine where: - Macie can be leveraged - GuardDuty can be leveraged - Inspector can be leveraged - Security Hub can be leveraged - Alternative security products can be leveraged - Codify the provisioning of security analytics and reporting workflow: - Implement Security Hub with in a central account with inputs from all accounts - Implement GuardDuty for global security events - Implement Macie for detection of sensitive data in 23 buckets - Develop AWS Config rules to enforce security configurations in CIS AWS Foundations standard - Implementing Inspector to gather findings from EC2 instances - Enable CloudTrail for monitoring API activity - Enable FlowLogs for VPC traffic Creating a Self-Service Compliance Framework - Selecting tools for building Policy-as-Code controls (preventative, detective, and responsive) - Development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for controls - Development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of controls: - Policy Definition – Identification and documentation of Customer Policy in the form of specific statements that must be true about configuration of AWS resources - Policy-as-Code Development – Development of the logical tests associated with each of the policies established to be used to assert the configuration state of infrastructure on AWS in order to block a build in the pipeline, take automated reactive action, or alert on violations to the policy - Framework Development – A design allowing for the execution of logical tests against infrastructure code or running AWS infrastructure in order to assert the configuration state of infrastructure resources on AWS and block a build in the pipeline, take automated reactive action, or alert on violations to the policy - Development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook Relevant Technical Tools - Primary Languages – Python, Java, Bash - Tooling, Services & Libraries – Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Splunk, OWASP, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, Fortify, Twistlock, Aqua Security - Python AWS security services (Control Tower, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Audit Manager) OPA, CloudFormation-guard - Knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS, · - Proficiency in policy-as-code frameworks (OPA) · - Experience designing compliance-as-code strategies and custom controls (SCPs, Config Rules) · Strong audit-readiness advisory and evidence-collection expertise · - Skilled in risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting · - Familiarity with Agile project governance and backlog management Relevant AWS Services - AWS Infrastructure Scripting – CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK - AWS Storage Services – S3 - AWS Compute Services – Lambda, EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR - AWS Networking Services – VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Direct Connect - AWS Developer Services – CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy - AWS Management and Governance Services – Control Tower, Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Config, CloudTrail, Service Catalog, Systems Manager - AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services – IAM, Inspector, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, Detective, GuardDuty, Macie, HSM, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield, Firewall Manager, Detective - AWS Frameworks – Landing Zone The Company Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years’ experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice, we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges, and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble, quality delivery, we can see rapid, tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation. Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• Drive demand for consulting and related services across. • Devise and execute sales strategies and tactics across the full Services portfolio which will result in exceeding sales targets. • Prospect, target, and build pipeline with prospective clients that fit the assigned market profile for Client Services. • Differentiate capabilities compared to other providers. • Develop credibility and relationships with direct relationships as well as team. • Drive direct sales approach and succuss plans for selling professional services. • Develop and execute joint sales strategies with primary ecosystem partners at the account level in coordination with account leaders. • Connect our SMEs to pursuits and engage them in architecting cloud solutions. • Work with the Pursuit and Sales Effectiveness teams to create and execute sales campaigns. • Manage the sales process from initial identification through closure and “own” the sale.

Vertical Relevance is looking for a Data Architect, to join our team as a full-time employee and work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of software systems. Candidate will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed, testable code. As a Data Architect, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience and organizational skills needed to drive customer success. At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are you ready to join the team? Responsibilities - Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their “cloud journey”. - Consult, plan, design, and implement Data solutions on the cloud customers - Design AWS Data Lake implementations - Database Migration to AWS Managed Services - Design and Develop AWS Data Quality and Governance solutions - Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust - Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architecture, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud - Innovate on behalf of customers and translate your thoughts into action yielding measurable results. - Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend expansion of capabilities through enhanced and new offerings. - Assist with technical briefs that document solutions - Assist with reference architecture implementations - Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership: - Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts - Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies Qualifications - Professional experience architecting/operating Data / DevOps solutions built on AWS and Azure. - Experience in software/technology customer facing experience. Sample Activities You’ll Do AWS Data Architecture and Data Lake Implementation Assist Customer in building out a framework for data collection, data ingestion and catalog, data storage and data serving designed to optimize the efficiency in which information is accessed, curated, served and analyzed from up to two on-premises data sources. - Assist Customer with implementing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), account, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket strategy and capture impact for introducing critical data for a data lake. - Assist Customer with achieving modern big data lambda architecture, providing an environment for consumption and utilization of data coming from either batch or streaming sources. - Assist Customer with defining detailed data architecture including raw data, conformed, structured, enriched, and aggregated. - Provide Customer general best practices in building production quality data pipeline for ingestion, transformation and consumption to downstream applications through a serving layer. - Assist Customer with defining details to data catalog and data serving layer through application program interfaces (APIs) if required. - Provide Customer general best practices for Amazon S3 data storage approach. Build Ingestion and Orchestration Ingestion Based on Customer’s ingestion requirements provided. Assist Customer with building a reusable ingestion framework to onboard new data quickly based on one data source example. - Assist Customer with designing and building robust data ingestion solutions using monitoring, logging and alerting service with retry capabilities. - Assist Customer with server-less approaches where if applicable for the ingestion. - Assist Customer with building the framework for managing data updates to data stored in objects on Amazon S3. Orchestration Based on Customer’s ingestion, orchestration and operational requirements. Provide general best practices to Customer for implementing an extensible and supportable orchestration framework for onboarding data to lambda architecture for a representative data source. - Advise Customer on leveraging AWS Services tools for data ingestion including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda or other tool defined as part of the assessment. - Advise Customer on orchestration options on AWS Services including but not limited to AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, AWS Batch, Amazon EMR, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Lambda or other AWS native orchestration tooling. - Experience with Apache Iceberg Sagemaker, SageMaker Lakehouse, SageMaker Catalog, Terraform. - Database migration factory - Aurora PostgreSQL - Experience with Athena, Redshift, EMR, Glue, DataBricks and/or Snowflake. - AWS Glue Data Catalog configuration and management. - Python/PySpark for metadata automation. - Data governance framework implementation. - Metadata ingestion pipeline development. - DCAM/DAMA framework experience. - Lake Formation security models. - Enterprise taxonomy design. - Assist Customer with building out the orchestration and state management processes to support data processing without data loss and exception and identify error handling. - Advise Customer on how the orchestration tooling will provide operational feedback to the support organizations in the event of a failure. Storage and Catalog Amazon S3 Data Storage Build Based on Customer’s usage requirements. Assist Customer with building the data lake storage approach for a representative data source. - Assist Customer with building data storage including buckets, prefixes, encryption, file types, partitioning. - Assist Customer with building automated data partition strategy. - Assist Customer with building Amazon S3 Bucket policies, logging and monitoring. - Assist Customer with building out data lifecycle management. - Assist Customer with building cross-region replication if required. Relevant Technical Tools - Primary Languages - Python - Tooling, Services & Libraries – Airflow, Kafka, Parquet, Spark, Metaflow, Git, Hadoop Relevant AWS Services - AWS Infrastructure Scripting – CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK - AWS Storage Services – S3 - AWS Compute Services – Lambda, Batch - AWS Database Services – RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora, Neptune - AWS Networking Services – VPC - AWS Management and Governance Services – CloudTrail, Service Catalog - AWS Analytics Services – Athena, EMR, Kinesis, Glue, Lake Formation, Data Pipeline - AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services – IAM - AWS Application Integration Services – Step Functions The Company Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years’ experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking. Within our Customer Experience practice, we add complementary industry expertise (technology and media) synergizing the most relevant and successful customer trends. We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges, and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI. With our industry experts hitting the ground running and focusing on nimble, quality delivery, we can see rapid, tangible improvements with our clients in productivity and effectiveness. When it makes sense for your company, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation. Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• Enable customers to solve complex data science problems, including problem framing, data preparation, scripting, model building, deployment, and monitoring. • Design and implement ML/AI solutions using AWS and GCP ADK ML Services. • Deliver ML projects end-to-end: understand business needs, aggregate and explore data, build and validate predictive models, deploy models with drift monitoring and retraining. • Utilize AWS and GCP ADK AI services, ML platforms, and frameworks to build scalable ML models. • Collaborate with consultants in Big Data, IoT, Chatbot's, and HPC to prepare and label data, and with engineers to operationalize models. • Serve as a trusted technical advisor for clients. • Develop high-quality technical content (automation tools, reference architectures, white papers). • Innovate on behalf of customers and translate ideas into measurable results. • Provide feedback to influence technology roadmaps and expand capabilities. • Assist with technical briefs and reference architecture implementations. • Contribute to thought leadership through blogs and case studies.

Vertical Relevance is looking for a Senior Project Manager with ServiceNow with Financial Services experience, ITSM / CSM, GRC to join our team Full-time and work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying software systems. As a Senior Project Manager with ServiceNow Financial Services experience, ITSM / CSM, GRC, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience, and organizational skills needed to drive customer success. Senior Project Manager with a strong background in engagement management to lead and oversee ServiceNow implementation projects within the financial services sector. The successful candidate will bring a combination of in-depth project management skills, hands-on experience with the ServiceNow platform, and the ability to effective lineage with stakeholders to drive project success. ServiceNow experience is essential, and ServiceNow certifications are highly valued. At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning, and taking ownership of our customers’ experience. Are you ready to join the team? Responsibilities: - Proven experience in Project Management, engagement management, client communication, and Project Leadership: Lead ServiceNow implementation projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines. · - Engagement Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including client executives and project sponsors, within the financial -ServiceNow - Strong understanding of ServiceNow modules such as ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, HRSD, CSM, GRC, or SecOps. - Understanding of ServiceNow Creator Workflow, Employee Workflow, HR, Legal, Talent and stakeholder management. · - Strong ServiceNow platform expertise; ServiceNow certifications (e.g., Certified Implementation Specialist, Project Portfolio Management) are highly advantageous. · - Familiarity with financial services industry compliance and regulatory standards. - PMP or Agile certification is a plus. · - Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and navigate complex client environments. - Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills Qualifications: - Experience: 8+ years of project management experience, with at least 5 years focused on ServiceNow platform in a pre-sales or delivery capacity, implementations in a financial services environment. - Proven experience in delivering successful ServiceNow implementations across Financial Services, Telecom, and HCLS industries. - Strong understanding of ServiceNow modules such as ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, HRSD, CSM, GRC, or SecOps. - Understanding of ServiceNow Industry and Custom Workflows. - Demonstrated experience leading pre-sales activities, including solution design, architecture, and proposal development. · - Strong client management skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. · - Proven ability to lead and manage large, cross-functional project teams. - ServiceNow Certified System services industry to ensure clear communication and alignment of project objectives. - Strategic Planning: Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with internal teams and clients, including the creation and management of detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets. - Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the project lifecycle; proactively manage and resolve issues as they arise. - Resource Allocation: Manage project resources, including cross-functional team members and third-party vendors, to ensure project milestones are met. - ServiceNow Expertise: Provide technical guidance and strategic insights on ServiceNow capabilities, aligning ServiceNow solutions with industry best practices and regulatory requirements in the financial services domain. - Performance Tracking: Monitor project performance, report on progress to stakeholders, and adjust plans as needed to meet deadlines and quality standards. - Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensure all project activities adhere to compliance standards specific to financial Industry and Custom Workflows. - Administrator (CSA) and ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS) certifications. (CSA certified or CSA trained, and voucher obtained). - Completed the PM development journey. - Obtained ServiceNow Professional Technical Manager Badge Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies. - Experience with cloud technologies and IT transformation programs. - Deep industry expertise in financial services, telecom, or healthcare & life sciences. - Soft Skills: Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. - Ability to manage competing priorities and work in a fast-paced environment. - A strategic thinker with the ability to foster long-term client relationships. Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth. We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training. Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years' experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking.

• Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide customers with technical and strategic guidance on their 'cloud journey'. • Consult, plan, design, and implement Data solutions on the cloud for customers. • Design AWS Data Lake implementations. • Assist customers with implementing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), account, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket strategy and capture impact for introducing critical data for a data lake. • Assist customers with achieving modern big data lambda architecture, providing an environment for consumption and utilization of data coming from either batch or streaming sources. • Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architecture, and white papers to help customers build on the cloud. • Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. • Assist with technical briefs that document solutions. • Assist with reference architecture implementations.