Salary Range: 170000 to 190000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Meet the Company:

We are MERU. A values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies. We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms. We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the eight-plus years since its founding.

The MERU Way & Valuing Our Team:

We're Partners, not consultants. When you join MERU, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems, supported by a team of people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you.

In order to be Partners, we don't silo people into just one functional area of the business, instead advancing our team's capabilities by providing training for every service that MERU offers. Additionally, we don't just focus on technical skills but also leadership style and soft skills, so MERU team members not only know what it means to manage a client engagement but to lead a team to success. In training team members to be well-rounded individuals, we can deliver an overall higher impact to clients, allowing the ability to gain experience in diligence, turnarounds, interim management, data science, and more.

To aid this career advancement and development, MERU provides an internal Coach to each team member in order to guide and maintain their professional development plan goals. Unlike most Firms, we actually focus on the achievement of those goals for each individual team member, providing opportunities that would not usually be offered.

Finally, MERU values personal time, only traveling when necessary in order to celebrate and respect your personal life. We believe that by encouraging and mandating balance, it will lead to happier and longer-tenured team members.

When you come to MERU, you come to further your career and maintain your entrepreneurial spirit, never losing sight of the desire to provide meaningful impact, solutions, and value to clients. Learn more about our colleagues’ core characteristics and culture here: https://wearemeru.com/meru-way/

Principal Solutions Architect Responsibilities:

Manage workstreams on multiple projects with the ability to stand up cloud data architecture with minimal supervision from senior team members
Act as product owner for end-to-end business intelligence solutions, from ETL to visualization
Develop and maintain a strong client relationship on engagement and effectively communicates hypothesis, assumptions, results, and other opportunities for improvement
Lead junior team members and colleagues across workstreams
Produce high quality, client-facing, production level code and sustainable architectural designs
Contribute to proposal development (i.e., assistance with analysis/presentation, etc.) and proactively identifies way to improve the proposal quality (i.e., research, package case studies, etc.)
Assist Partners in preparation for pitches and attend as required
Take ownership over development of Firm Contribution areas, such as Recruiting, Professional Development, Marketing, etc.

Principal Solutions Architect Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from a top university, required
Master’s degree related to analytics or information system, preferred
7+ years of business intelligence or data analytics experience
Previous experience in data and analytics consulting or a client facing role
Expert knowledge and delivery experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik or any other data visualization tools
Strong knowledge and experience with ETL tools like Power Query, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch, Alteryx and languages like SQL, Python or R
Knowledge or experience working with cloud data warehouses (Azure, Snowflake, GCP, AWS)
Relevant certifications associated with business intelligence tools
Experience in mentoring junior analysts and leading cross-functional teams to deliver data products
Demonstrated ability to interact and work collaboratively with junior and senior team members, senior management, and other stakeholders or professionals
“Roll up your sleeves” mentality and willingness to complete any tasks if needed, no matter the role
Experience in project management and independently managing deliverables
Effective communication skills to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience or senior executives
Ability to assist with internal firm initiatives (e.g., marketing, client pitches)
Willingness to travel up to 20%
Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
Authorization to work in the United States
Commitment to living MERU’s values and core characteristics

Overview of MERU Service Offerings:

Performance Improvement:

Help companies identify and achieve their full potential by leveraging a value-focused approach to driving sustainable margin expansion impact. Services include MERU 360° Assessment, Transformation Plan Development, Chief Transformation Officer placement, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Optimization, and Implementation Performance Management.

Turnaround & Restructuring:

Partner with clients during uncertain times to help stabilize operations and rapidly triage the causes of financial distress, charting a path back to long-term sustainability. Services include Interim Management, Turnaround Plan Development and Execution, Liquidity Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Alternatives Assessment, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Case Management.

Transaction Services:

Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning. Services include Due Diligence, Pre-Close Planning, Post-Close Implementation, and Exit Planning.

Data Insights:

Work with companies at all stages of their digital transformation journey to automate reporting processes, build scalable data platforms, and leverage predictive analytics to transform data from a liability into an asset. Services include Data Discovery and Analysis, Data Prep and Integration, Self-Service Analytics, Data Visualization and Reporting, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, and Strategy Enablement.

Voluntary Inclusion:

It is MERU’s policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person, or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that MERU will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.

About the company

MERU provides turnaround and restructuring services for middle-market firms facing complex challenges. Its method pairs senior leaders with 150+ specialized experts and uses a flexible, performance-based fee that aligns with successful outcomes, working closely with management and sponsors. Its offerings include Transaction Services (operational due diligence, finance-function assessment, dashboards and KPIs, initiative identification, and first-100-day planning), Performance Improvement (360 assessments, transformation plans, possible Chief Transformation Officer, cash cycle and working capital optimization), and Turnaround and Restructuring (liquidity management, strategic options, stakeholder communications, Chief Restructuring Officer, contingency planning, and Chapter 11 administration). The goal is to fix operations, improve cash flow and balance sheets, and guide complex restructurings to deliver better results for clients.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

MERU added four hires in Q2 2026, expanding delivery capacity across three offices.
July 2026 promotions and Scott Webb's partnership election signal strong retention and bench depth.
Greg Esslinger's July 2026 COO hire strengthens operations as MERU scales growth.

What critics are saying

BioXcel's August 2026 Chapter 11 shows MERU remains tied to distressed outcomes and reputational risk.
If restructuring demand softens in 2027, MERU's fee model compresses faster than retainers.
A failed engagement at a marquee client can derail referrals and sponsor trust quickly.

What makes MERU unique

MERU combines turnaround, interim leadership, and Chapter 11 administration under one platform.
Its 150-plus subject matter experts give middle-market clients operator-heavy execution, not slideware.
Performance-based fees align MERU with outcomes, unlike hourly restructuring shops.

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Company News

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Sep 22nd, 2026

Alvarez & Marsal adds Ahmed Elkomy and Daisy Fitzgerald to Brisbane team.

Alvarez & Marsal adds Ahmed Elkomy and Daisy Fitzgerald to Brisbane team. 22 September 2026 Consultancy.com.au Alvarez & Marsal has strengthened its senior team in Australia with the hires of Ahmed Elkomy, who joins from a rival consultancy, and Daisy Fitzgerald, who returns to the firm after a decade away. Ahmed Elkomy is a Managing Director in the Brisbane office. A member of the Energy & Resources practice, he specialises in enterprise transformation and operations improvement across mining, metals, oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, and other asset-intensive industries. With more than 16 years of international experience, Elkomy has led more than 40 advisory projects and transformations across over 24 countries, delivering more than $1 billion in bottom-line results. He works with executive teams and frontline leaders to identify improvement opportunities, build practical transformation roadmaps, and support implementation to sustain results. His primary areas of focus include asset management, operations, supply chain, organisational effectiveness, corporate development, cost reduction, capital effectiveness, operational excellence, and capability building. Prior to joining Alvarez & Marsal, Elkomy served Partners in Performance, where he held senior consulting roles and led its Asset Management offering worldwide. Earlier in his career, he worked at operations consultancy dss+ and held roles at construction group Boral. Daisy Fitzgerald has been appointed a Managing Director in the firm's Private Equity Performance Improvement practice. Also based in Brisbane, she specialises in interim management, CFO services, and turnaround. Her primary areas of concentration are liquidity and working capital optimization, business transformation, and turnaround. Throughout her career, Fitzgerald has worked with clients across various industries, including manufacturing, consumer, food and beverage, and real estate. Her notable restructuring assignments include some of the largest global restructurings, including Lehman Brothers (in Australia) and Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU). She also held numerous interim management roles, including for a $100 million pharmaceuticals company and for a $300 million manufacturing company. Prior to re-joining Alvarez & Marsal - she previously worked for the consulting firm in the US - Fitzgerald was a Managing Director with MERU in New York. In Australia, she previously worked for EY and PPB Advisory (acquired by PwC).

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Jan 17th, 2024

MERU Welcomes Peter Archibald, Analytics Engineer

Meru, LLC is thrilled to welcome Peter Archibald to MERU.

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Oct 11th, 2023

MERU Welcomes Nathan Oehler, Analytics Engineer

MERU welcomes Nathan Oehler, Analytics Engineer.

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Sep 20th, 2023

MERU Welcomes Brian Bonaviri, Principal

Meru, LLC is thrilled to welcome Brian Bonaviri to MERU.

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Sep 14th, 2023

MERU Welcomes Stacy Montagner, Chief Talent & Growth Officer

MERU welcomes Stacy Montagner, chief talent & growth officer.

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