Role Description The Data Engineering Practice Leader will serve as a senior pillar lead responsible for shaping data engineering strategy, growing a book of business, leading practice development, and overseeing delivery of enterprise-scale data transformation initiatives. This role sits within FormativGroup’s Data & Analytics practice and blends consulting leadership, executive advisory, technical oversight, commercial ownership, and team development. The position is approximately 25% billable delivery and 75% business development, practice ownership, and strategic leadership. As the Practice Leader, you will partner with executive client stakeholders, lead account growth, oversee solution architecture, guide delivery teams, and help define scalable, modern data solutions across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and related cloud data ecosystems. What You'll Work On - Serve as a senior pillar lead for the Data & Analytics - Data Engineering practice. - Own and grow a book of business through client relationship leadership, business development, and strategic account expansion. - Lead strategic data modernization discussions with executive and senior client stakeholders. - Shape solution strategy, future-state architecture, and transformation roadmaps for enterprise clients. - Oversee delivery of complex data engineering programs, ensuring alignment to business outcomes, architecture standards, and delivery quality. - Develop new data engineering offerings, accelerators, products, and reusable delivery assets. - Provide technical oversight across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and equivalent modern data platforms. - Guide solutioning for data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, advanced analytics enablement, and AI-ready data platforms. - Lead proposal strategy, pursuit support, client presentations, and commercial solution development. - Partner with internal leadership to define practice priorities, talent strategy, delivery methodology, and growth plans. - Manage, mentor, and develop senior managers, managers, architects, consultants, and cross-functional delivery teams. - Establish governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, security, privacy, and compliance standards across client programs. - Evaluate emerging data, analytics, and AI-enablement technologies and determine applicability to client and practice needs. - Monitor portfolio performance, delivery health, financial outcomes, and client satisfaction. - Represent FormativGroup as a trusted advisor in data engineering, analytics modernization, and cloud data transformation. Qualifications - 15+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data architecture, cloud data platforms, or related technology consulting roles. - 10+ years of leadership experience within a traditional consulting firm, technology consulting firm, systems integrator, or professional services organization. - Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field. - Strong technical background with the ability to solution, oversee architecture, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and develop new data products or offerings. - Executive-level advisory experience across analytics strategy, data modernization, cloud transformation, and business value realization. - Strong understanding of data architecture, data modeling, ETL/ELT, pipeline design, data integration, governance, security, and compliance. - Experience leading large enterprise programs, multi-year engagements, or complex consulting portfolios. - Experience with proposal development, pursuit strategy, solution design, pricing support, and executive presentations. - Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance client outcomes, delivery quality, and financial performance. - Exceptional communication, executive presence, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. - Experience leading account growth, business development, relationship leadership, and strategic account expansion. Benefits - Discretionary bonuses, commissions, or other incentive programs. - Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, etc. Employment Eligibility Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa currently. This is a remote role with approximately 50% travel. The preferred location is the Northeast U.S. To be considered for this position, candidates must reside in one of the following U.S. states or Washington, DC: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI, or Washington, DC. Candidates residing outside these locations are not eligible for consideration currently. Compensation The estimated compensation range for this position is $185,000 — $265,000 USD. The actual compensation offered will be determined based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, education, work location, and internal equity. Company Description FormativGroup operates within the critical middle layer of business technology, where applications and systems connect infrastructure to business processes. We are specialists who help the middle market take full advantage of their technology investments with deep, industry-centric expertise, all in one place, to unify fragmented systems. With deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, system integration, AI, and data strategy, we bridge the gap between business goals and modern platforms. FormativGroup is an equal opportunity employer providing opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Role Description Zenni is experiencing rapid growth in the affordable eyewear space, and data is at the core of our success. We are seeking a Manager, Data Engineering with a strong technical background and deep business domain expertise to partner closely with our Engagement Marketing team. In this leadership role, you will bridge the gap between complex data architecture and strategic marketing initiatives. You will be responsible for translating large datasets into clear, actionable insights, empowering our cross-functional teams to make confident, informed decisions. By building robust data solutions and fostering strong collaboration across departments, you will directly impact our operational efficiency and drive revenue growth. If you are a collaborative leader who excels at leveraging data to solve real-world business challenges, this could be the next move for you! This is a remote role overseeing a team of 2 and reporting to the Sr. Director of Data Engineering. Responsibilities - Champion data literacy: Provide ongoing training and support to the Engagement Marketing team, ensuring complex data concepts are seamlessly communicated and understood. - Drive cross-functional alignment: Act as the strategic bridge between the Data and Engagement Marketing teams, streamlining communication to boost operational efficiency and collaboration. - Power marketing platforms: Integrate enriched, highly trusted data with key business platforms (e.g., Google, Tik Tok, Meta) to optimize ad delivery and AI performance. - Ensure data integrity: Own the lifecycle of data feeds, encompassing validation, monitoring, testing, and proactive alerting, to guarantee uncompromising data quality and reliability. - Define success metrics: Partner with functional teams to establish a shared, accurate understanding of the core metrics that drive organizational performance. - Shape the data roadmap: Lead the strategic planning for the data team, ensuring technical initiatives directly align with Zenni’s overarching growth objectives. - Innovate continuously: Stay at the forefront of modern data engineering technologies and industry trends to evolve our strategy and keep our technical capabilities competitive. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. - 8+ years of dedicated experience in the data area, coupled with at least 3 years navigating the fast-paced e-commerce landscape. - Deep business domain knowledge across key marketing functions, including but not limited to Performance Marketing, Lifecycle, and Brand marketing. - Hands-on experience implementing marketing measurement methodologies, including Last-Touch, MTA, incrementality testing, MMM, and CVR measurement frameworks. - Extensive experience designing data architecture, performing complex data modeling, and building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for centralized data warehouses. - Advanced fluency in SQL and Python, with the ability to dive deeply into a modern tech stack as a hands-on contributor. - Demonstrated success leading projects from start to finish, spanning requirement gathering, cross-functional stakeholder communication, architecture design, implementation, and QA. - Proactive leadership and cross-functional communication skills, with a proven ability to drive business impact. Preferred Qualifications - Hands-on expertise working within Databricks environments. - Proven track record of guiding and mentoring high-velocity data teams in a fast-paced setting. - Demonstrated success managing complex data integrations, advanced reporting, and platform optimization across diverse marketing channels. - An enthusiastic, proactive approach to tackling new technical challenges and driving continuous improvement. Benefits - Annual bonus program - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision (dependent coverage capped at $300/month) - Life, AD&D, and disability coverage (with optional add-ons) - Company-matched RRSP contributions up to 4% - Comprehensive wellbeing programs (mental, physical, emotional support) - Lifestyle Spending Account (wellbeing + learning) - Work-from-home stipend (for eligible roles) - Generous Flexible Time Off in addition to our Week of Zen - the time between Christmas and New Year’s to relax and recuperate - Fully Paid Parental Leave - 16 weeks for birthing and non-birthing parents - Family forming & fertility support and services through Maven - Annual Zenni Gift Card - to use towards our products Compensation In addition to other forms of compensation like perks and benefits, the estimated range for this role is CAD 163,000 - 185,000. The final offer will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skill set, experience, geographical location, market conditions, and other organizational needs. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, or revisit the salary range for various reasons including business needs.

• Lead Data + ML Platform strategy and execution • Own technical direction for the data and ML platform, spanning data engineering, data platform, and ML Ops. • Invest in ML Ops capabilities that accelerate ML enablement: offline experimentation, model registry, shadow deployments and testing, drift/product monitoring, online and offline feature stores, and training data management. • Build measurement and experimentation frameworks for LLM and agentic workflows. • Invest in data platform and data engineering capabilities to handle large-scale streaming and batch data across modalities. • Modularize and scale our system, increase reliability, and modernize legacy infrastructure. • Make it easy for ML engineers to have ideas, test them, shadow deploy, gather data, test online, and ship. • Set clear success criteria for platform capabilities and hold the team accountable to outcomes. • Anticipate skill gaps and build a deliberate hiring plan; consistently attract and retain strong data and ML platform engineers. • Coach with depth: set explicit expectations, give direct feedback, and accelerate individual growth. • Build an environment of ownership, trust, and continuous learning. • Develop future leaders and create succession within the team. • Work closely with Product, Hardware, Data Science, and Analytics to shape problem definition and roadmap. • Translate ambiguous business needs into concrete technical direction. • Influence hardware and device design decisions where they intersect with data and ML needs. • Contribute to company strategy at the intersection of data, ML, devices, and care outcomes.

Role Description The Senior Big Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and delivering highly scalable big data and ETL solutions across distributed environments. This role supports projects at various and unanticipated client worksites throughout the United States, with headquarters based in Chicago, IL. The engineer works closely with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy data solutions that meet business and operational needs, leveraging modern big data frameworks, cloud platforms, and agile development practices. Telecommuting is permitted. Job Responsibilities - Design and implement highly scalable ETL applications on Hadoop and Big Data ecosystems. - Develop new scripts, tools, and methodologies for streamlining and automating ETL workflows. - Deliver big data projects using Spark, Python, Scala, SQL, and Hive. - Design and create use-cases and scenarios for functional testing, integration testing, and system testing. - Work closely with Data Science, QA, Operations, and other teams to deliver on tight deadlines. - Participate in daily agile and scrum meetings and code reviews. - Coordinate with cross-functional operational teams for managing data delivery. - Write efficient, reusable, and well-documented code. - Prepare technical design documents for solutions. - Identify and address issues encountered from the data factory and provide timely solutions to incorrect or undesired results or behavior with ILD solutions. Technical Environment - Writing ETL Spark applications in PySpark and Scala, Flume. - Spark architecture, data frames, tuning Spark. - Relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL). - Python, SQL HQL, Hive. - Data Bricks. - Managing software systems using Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS and all included services. - Distributed computing principles. - Big Data querying tools (Pig, Hive, Impala). - Data-warehousing and data-modeling techniques. - Core Java, Linux, SQL, scripting languages. - Cloud platforms (Azure). - Integration of data from multiple data sources. - Lambda Architecture. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of progressive experience as a Software Engineer/Developer or in Software Development required. - Experience writing ETL Spark applications in PySpark or Scala. - Experience with spark architecture, data frames, tuning spark. - Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL). - Experience with Python, SQL HQL, Hive. - Experience with Data Bricks. - Experience managing software systems using Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS and all included services. - Experience with distributed computing principles. - Experience with Big Data querying tools (Hive). - Experience with data-warehousing & data-modeling techniques. - Experience with Core Java, Linux, SQL, scripting languages. - Experience with Cloud platforms (Azure). - Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources. - Experience with Lambda Architecture. - Telecommuting permitted. Circana Behaviors - Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions. - Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action. - Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices. - Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers. - Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement. - Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity. - Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone. Location This position can be located in the following area(s): US Remote. Compensation The salary range for this role is 160,500 USD to 200,000 USD. This job is also eligible for bonus pay. Benefits - Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off. - Medical/dental/vision insurance. - 401(k) to eligible employees. Application Process You can apply for this role through the Circana careers website or Intranet site for internal candidates.