Mike Carter
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 ERP consultants bill $85 to $325 an hour in 2026 across NetSuite, SAP, and Dynamics 365, and the platform explains less of that spread than the engagement model and how much validation the project actually requires. A generalist quoting $95 an hour and a validation specialist quoting … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an SAP Basis administrator in 2026 means splitting the role from HANA security and integration work, budgeting $109,000 to $169,000 base, and testing candidates on a real outage instead of a certification list. Get the scope wrong on the job posting and you’ll spend six weeks … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an AWS Solutions Architect in 2026 means verifying real multi-account design work, not a certification badge, budgeting $145,000 to $220,000 base for a senior hire, and testing Well-Architected tradeoffs instead of service trivia. A req that just says “solutions architect, AWS a plus” pulls candidates from … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an IT project manager in 2026 comes down to scoping which of three jobs you are actually filling, budgeting $99,000 to $130,000 in base pay, and running a short, focused loop that closes in four to six weeks. The scoping step decides the other two. Skip … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 The IT project manager interview questions worth asking in 2026 cover cutover and rollback authority, change control inside a live production estate, vendor scope, and the dependencies the candidate did not own. A general project manager list skips all four. That is the entire gap. It is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A NetSuite solution architect designs the subsidiary structure, segment strategy, and integration pattern your instance will live with for years, and in 2026 they run $150,000 to $220,000 base or $95 to $165 an hour on contract. That is a different hire from a consultant who configures … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A penetration tester job description works when it names one attack surface, states the pay range, and describes the report as real work. Most postings skip all three, which is why they attract scanner operators instead of testers. The template further down does those three things. Everything … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring a data governance analyst in 2026 means naming the regulation or AI program driving the req first, then budgeting roughly $95,000 to $155,000 for a mid-to-senior hire and planning a four-to-seven-week search. The band is that wide because the title is. Three salary trackers looked at … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A product manager owns what gets built and why; a program manager owns whether a set of connected projects actually lands across teams that do not report to them. Hire the product manager when the open question is which bet to make. Hire the program manager when … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 IAM engineers earn $115,000 to $155,000 base at mid-level in 2026 and $150,000 to $200,000 at senior, with identity architects clearing $240,000. Those bands come from reconciling six public sources against searches our desks actually closed. The public sources, taken at face value, put the national average … Read more
