Teams at ITHAKA

Serve as a strategic finance partner for product and shared services areas, leading forecasting, long-range planning, cost allocation, variance analysis, and scenario modeling. Maintain financial models, budgets, and executive reporting while optimizing Workday Adaptive Planning, Acumatica, Databricks, and Tableau systems. Improve data architecture, reporting governance, automation, and forecast accuracy, partnering with Product, Accounting, and cross-functional leaders to support executive decisions.

Leads backend technology strategy and architecture for JSTOR’s Books and royalty payment platforms. Designs and operates distributed services, APIs, data pipelines, fulfillment systems, and financial integrations using modern cloud-native technologies. Drives reliability, observability, scalability, reconciliation, and platform evolution while remaining hands-on. Influences architecture across teams, mentors engineers and technical leaders, establishes engineering standards, and aligns technical investments with product and business goals.

Lead the design, development, and operation of internal developer platforms, CI/CD tooling, automation, backend services, and web applications. Improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability, security, and operational efficiency. Collaborate across engineering teams, shape platform roadmaps, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, manage incidents, and optimize system performance, availability, capacity, cost, and technical debt.