CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

DevOps Engineer

• Manage the review of application build and deployment requirements and review pre-production environment system requirements to ensure availability and scalability.
• Lead the implementation of build and deployment processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Oversee the creation of stable pre-production operating environments by continuously improving deployable, scalable, and monitored infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software solutions that orchestrate all aspects of deploying new code commits to production.
• Support application architects and development teams to ensure software solution designs are compatible with the CI/CD platform.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to configure deployment environments to be compatible with the CI/CD platform.
• Ensure code assessment and quality gate tools are compatible with the CI/CD platform in collaboration with security teams.
• Drive CI/CD paradigms into SDLC process improvement discussions and standards documentation.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and continuously improve building, packaging, and deployment processes.
• Implement automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, and monitoring.
• Utilize a consistent DevOps approach across products/projects to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality, reporting and dashboards across functions.
• Manage and oversee the DevOps/Platform Engineering team velocity, issues, risks and bottlenecks and related projects.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform templates specifically for application development.
• Oversee tasks related to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster management, scaling, and monitoring.
• Ensure efficient migrations with robust metrics and analytics that illustrate effectiveness, along with comprehensive monitoring and tooling.

DevOps Manager

Product Designer

• Own design strategy and prioritization for an assigned product domain
• Connect design work to measurable business and user outcomes (e.g., efficiency, adoption, quality)
• Generate and communicate trade-offs that inform domain-level decisions
• Lead ongoing discovery to identify high-value problems before solutions are defined
• Translate insights into clear, actionable product direction
• Validate concepts through rapid testing, feedback, and available data
• Own end-to-end design of complex workflows across roles, systems, and dependencies
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and business stakeholders to shape direction
• Contribute improvements to shared patterns and components with clear rationale
• Mentor designers on craft, product thinking, and stakeholder engagement

User Interface/User Experience Lead Designer

Administration

• Lead the setup, configuration, and maintenance of Databricks clusters.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement data solutions.
• Provide advanced user support and training.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform administration.
• Manage and maintain role-based access to data and features in the Databricks Platform using Unity Catalog.
• Implement external access controls for outside teams using service principles, SQL warehouses, and Delta Sharing.
• Ensure unused assets are tracked for pruning.
• Implement service principles and access tokens for external users.
• Create queries and dashboards to monitor critical systems and processes.
• Automate common admin tasks using Databricks notebooks.
• Manage workflow tags, cluster tags, workflow naming convention enforcement.
• Perform clusters health check and best practices implementation.
• Perform regular backup and recovery.
• Perform privilege reviews on users and resources.
• Provide training to junior members of the team and act as a point of escalation for complex questions and issues.

Senior Platform Administrator

Data Scientist

• Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, development, and performance management.
• Mentor and guide analysts, supporting onboarding, skill development, and continuous learning across career stages.
• Conduct workload planning, prioritization, and resource allocation to support multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Build and sustain a high‑performing team culture rooted in collaboration, quality, accountability, and innovation.
• Lead and oversee large scale analytical and AI initiatives, including data acquisition, transformation, modeling, AI system development, automation, and insight generation.
• Provide technical oversight and review of analytical approaches, models, and AI systems to ensure sound methodology, reproducibility, and scientific rigor.
• Guide the development and application of advanced statistical, machine learning, and AI-driven solutions, including predictive models, computer vision, large language models (LLMs), and agent-based systems.
• Lead the design and oversight of AI-enabled systems, including prompt engineering strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and agentic workflows.
• Establish and evolve analytical and AI best practices, documentation standards, and technical frameworks across the team.
• Ensure standards for model and AI system validation, monitoring, evaluation, documentation, and responsible AI use are consistently applied.
• Partner with engineering, IT, and data platform teams to enable scalable, reliable, and well governed solutions.
• Own delivery outcomes for data science and AI workstreams, ensuring solutions meet quality, performance, and business expectations.
• Translate business objectives into clear analytical and AI priorities, balancing near term delivery with long term capability building.
• Oversee planning, prioritization, and resourcing across projects and teams.
• Monitor solution performance, validation results, and model or AI system stability; guide troubleshooting of complex data, model, or AI issues.
• Ensure solutions are productionized effectively, with clear ownership, monitoring, and integration into business workflows.
• Establish, refine, and enforce standards for documentation, reproducibility, quality assurance, and governance.
• Remove obstacles, manage risks, and ensure consistent execution across initiatives.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for business and functional leaders on analytics and AI initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to define business questions, success metrics, analytical frameworks, and delivery expectations.
• Coordinate work across teams, offices, and disciplines to ensure alignment of analytical and AI approaches and outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Evaluate and recommend adoption of new data sources, technologies, and analytical and AI tools.
• Contribute to enterprise level analytics and AI strategy, including identifying high impact use cases and guiding their transition from concept to production.

Manager, Data Science

Accounting Manager

• Client Service: Develops an understanding of each client’s business/organization operations.
• Day to Day Transactions: Leads coordination and processing of accounts payable, cash disbursements, accounts receivable, cash receipts and posting/recording of payroll transactions.
• Month End Processing: Coordinates and reviews account reconciliations (i.e. prepaids, accounts receivable, fixed assets, accounts payable, and accruals.) Completes complex account reconciliations (investments, debt, industry specific, etc.) Prepares, understands, and reviews financial statements (basic to complex.) Reviews general ledger, cashflow, allocations, etc. Proactively creates process and procedure documentation and builds their own backup.
• Other Quarterly/Annual Processing: Completes sales tax returns and Form 1099s and preparing audit workpapers, tax return workpapers, and other forms or items as requested by clients.
• Oversee workflow and quality of work of Associates and Analysts. Supervise and ensure the efficiency and quality of work produced by Associates and Analysts.
• Special Projects: Assists with projects for internal audit, due diligence, system selection, and other consultative projects.

Senior Accountant, CAAS – Logistics Industry

Insurance

• Assists with the detail work of audits, reviews and other assurance services for local government and not-for-profit clients
• Prepares financial statements, related disclosures and other required reports
• Prepares Form 990 returns for not-for-profit clients
• Gains experience, exposure, and knowledge of procedures, workpapers and systems
• Supports multiple client engagements on time and within budget, identifying issues and communicating progress
• Completes research and special projects as needed
• Communicates effectively with clients and CLA family members on a regular basis.

Assurance Associate

• Performs audit, review, compilation, and other assurance services
• Gains experience, exposure, and knowledge of procedures, workpapers and systems
• Supports multiple client engagements on time and within budget, identifying issues and communicating progress
• Expands industry knowledge, through greater exposure to peers, clients, and formal training opportunities
• Completes research and special projects as needed
• Communicates effectively with clients and CLA family members on a regular basis
• Potential opportunity to prepare tax returns

Assurance Intern

• Prepares individual, corporate, partnership, and other types of tax returns
• Performs audit, review, compilation, and other assurance services
• Gains experience, exposure, and knowledge of procedures, workpapers and systems
• Supports multiple client engagements on time and within budget, identifying issues and communicating progress
• Expands industry knowledge, through greater exposure to peers, clients, and formal training opportunities
• Completes research and special projects as needed
• Communicates effectively with clients and CLA family members on a regular basis

Tax and Audit Intern

Operations

• Monitor and maintain cloud systems to ensure optimal performance and availability.
• Automate operational tasks and processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Monitor and manage cloud resources to ensure scalability and availability.
• Collaborate with development teams to deploy applications and services in the cloud.
• Perform regular system audits and generate reports on cloud systems health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud systems issues.
• Document operational procedures and best practices.
• Implement best practices for cloud security and compliance.
• Manage and monitor on-premises data center operations to ensure seamless integration with cloud systems.
• Perform maintenance and upgrades on on-premises data center hardware and software.
• Participates in on call rotation.

Senior Cloud Operations

• Own design strategy and delivery for an assigned product surface, partnering with PMs and engineering to set direction and define success
• Connect design work to measurable business and user outcomes (e.g., efficiency, adoption, quality)
• Lead discovery to identify high-value problems and translate insights into actionable direction
• Use AI-enabled prototyping tools (Lovable, Figma Make, v0, Cursor, or equivalent) as a primary method to validate direction before engineering invests, surface trade-offs early, and align stakeholders around evidence
• Move work from problem framing through validation, high-fidelity design, and engineering handoff
• Generate and communicate trade-offs that inform product-level decisions
• Design end-to-end workflows across roles, systems, and dependencies
• Build and refine components, tokens, and patterns in the Seamless Design System so they scale across products
• Identify reusable patterns from product work and contribute them back to the design system with clear rationale
• Promote disciplined reuse and prevent unnecessary divergence from established patterns
• Partner with the team to drive common componentry to ensure decisions hold up across the portfolio
• Document and govern contributions so other designers can reuse them confidently
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and business stakeholders to shape direction
• Communicate design rationale in business terms (outcomes, value, risk, trade-offs)
• Influence and align stakeholders without formal authority, including non-designers who push back on design decisions
• Navigate ambiguity and organizational complexity to drive progress
• Deliver high-quality interaction and visual design across workflows and states
• Apply accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and behavioral design principles
• Raise the bar on AI-enabled prototyping across the team, sharing patterns and methods other designers can adopt
• Stay current on emerging AI-enabled design and prototyping tools, evaluating fit for CLA’s workflow
• Mentor designers on product thinking, craft, and stakeholder engagement
• Contribute to team practices, standards, and knowledge sharing across the UX organization

User Interface/User Experience Designer – Design System

Solutions Engineer

• Design and guide technology solutions that align business goals with scalable, secure, and sustainable architectures.
• Create and maintain operating procedures and technical documentation for new and existing processes, policies, and strategy.
• Participate in project teams that are either directly associated with MarTech and CRM technology or that use data from these systems.
• Assist with periodic IT security and user access for all MarTech and CRM systems as required.
• Review application demands for impact on existing configuration and identify opportunities via change management processes, inclusive of system and user acceptance testing, user training, and support documentation.
• Manage optimization related to security and data integrity for the applications and integrations.
• Work with IT and business users to identify new strategies and IT procedures to increase efficiency and enhance workflow.
• Communicate effectively and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• Strategic thinker with ability to balance long‑term vision and short‑term execution.
• Ability to prioritize effectively and escalate conflicts when needed.
• Highly collaborative, outcome‑driven, and comfortable managing ambiguity.
• Ability to work with large teams and a variety of people, including team members, management team members, IT and business users.

Senior Solution Architect, MarTech

Director

• Interact and collaborate with others across all levels of the Firm and on occasion with clients
• Perform the quality control review of assurance engagements
• Analyze observations and findings, perform root cause analysis, and proactively collaborate to develop process improvements
• Be a technical resource for engagement teams assisting in research and consultation for the application of professional standards and generally accepted accounting principles
• Assist in development and maintenance of assurance methodology and practice aids for implementation of new standards and related learning
• Develop thought leadership for internal and external users

Audit Director – National Assurance, Non-Profit

Audit Director – National Assurance, State and Local Government

Controller

• Perform Assistant Controller functions as part of the client’s accounting services team and manage these functions for your clients.
• Act as a consultant and advisor to your clients on best practices for accounting and finance-related engagements.
• Provide project management expertise by managing multiple clients, work, and deadlines.
• Prepare and analyze client financial statements and make recommendations.
• Foster and build opportunities for our clients, communities, and people.
• Become an industry professional and attend industry-leading events and training.
• Maintain knowledge of the client’s organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.

Assistant Controller – CAAS, State and Local Government

• Develops an understanding of each client’s business/organization operations.
• Competent in management of multiple clients, software, and chart of accounts on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Leads coordination and processing of accounts payable, cash disbursements, accounts receivable, cash receipts and posting/recording of payroll transactions.
• Coordinates and reviews account reconciliations (i.e. prepaids, accounts receivable, fixed assets, accounts payable, and accruals.)
• Completes complex account reconciliations (investments, debt, industry specific, etc.)
• Prepares, understands, and reviews financial statements (basic to complex.)
• Reviews general ledger, cashflow, allocations, etc.
• Proactively creates process and procedure documentation and builds their own backup.
• Completes sales tax returns and Form 1099s and preparing audit workpapers, tax return workpapers, and other forms or items as requested by clients.
• Oversee workflow and quality of work of Associates and Analysts.
• Supervise and ensure the efficiency and quality of work produced by Associates and Analysts.
• Assists with projects for internal audit, due diligence, system selection, and other consultative projects.