Tom Kenaley
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 A NetSuite administrator configures the system you already own, and a NetSuite developer writes the code for what configuration can’t reach, so most hiring managers who think they need a developer actually need an administrator first. Plenty of companies genuinely need a developer they haven’t hired yet, so … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 AWS solutions architect interview questions in 2026 map to the four domains AWS uses to grade the SAA-C03 exam: security, resilience, performance, and cost, and the best hires can defend a real trade-off in each one. A certification proves someone studied. It does not prove they can design … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 Hiring a NetSuite consultant in 2026 costs $85 to $250 an hour for most US engagements. Offshore resources bill $30 to $75, independents $85 to $150, staffing-firm contractors $90 to $185, boutique partners $150 to $250, and Big 4 teams more. The spread is not noise. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 VP of Finance salaries run $195,000 to $280,000 base in 2026 at most private companies, with PE-backed and pre-IPO seats reaching $300,000 and public-company divisional VPs clearing $340,000. The band is wide because the job is. Two people with the same title, the same team size, … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Hiring an SAP S/4HANA consultant starts with naming your conversion path and your workstream, because brownfield and greenfield reward opposite skill sets. Mid-to-senior consultants run $110,000 to $195,000 base in 2026, contract rates sit between $110 and $200 an hour, and a scoped search closes in two to … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Five different jobs hide inside the title IAM engineer, and the search only moves fast when you name which one you mean before the req goes live. Mid-to-senior identity talent runs $115,000 to $200,000 base in 2026, and a scoped search closes in three to six weeks. An … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 An ETL developer builds and maintains the pipelines that move data between systems, and in 2026 most U.S. hires land between $103,000 and $185,000 depending on whether the job is running a modern stack or escaping a legacy one. That second clause is doing almost all the work … Read more
Managing employee leave may seem straightforward, but as organizations grow, manual processes often become difficult to maintain. What starts as a simple spreadsheet or email approval system can quickly turn into a time-consuming task that creates confusion, payroll errors, and scheduling conflicts. To address these challenges, many businesses are adopting Leave Management Software that automates … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 A data architect decides how data should be modeled, stored, and governed across the whole company, while a data engineer builds and runs the pipelines that move it. One produces decisions other people build against. The other produces code that runs at 4 a.m. and pages somebody when … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Build in-house when your NetSuite instance changes most weeks and somebody has to answer on Tuesday morning. Bring in a consultant when the work is project-shaped, deep, and finite. Nearly every company treats this as a budget question. It is a cadence question. The budget falls out of … Read more
