Spaulding Ridge is an advisory and IT implementation firm. We help global organizations get financial clarity into the complex, daily sales, and operational decisions that impact profitable revenue generations, efficient operational performance, and reliable financial management.
At Spaulding Ridge, we believe all business is personal. Core to our values is our relationships with our clients, our business partners, our team, and the global community. Our employees dedicate their time to helping our clients transform their business, from strategy through implementation and business transformation.
What You Will Do and Learn
As a Snowflake Architect in Data Solutions, you'll lead pre-sales, estimation, scoping, design, and delivery of modern analytics solutions on Snowflake. You'll act as a hands-on architect and delivery lead on your own projects, while also providing technical guidance and people leadership to team members deployed across multiple client engagements.
Architecture & Delivery
- Own end-to-end Snowflake solution architecture: data modeling, warehouse sizing and cost optimization, RBAC/security design, data sharing, and performance tuning
- Lead the data engineering lifecycle - research, POCs, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Design and build POCs for modern analytics stacks across cloud-based business systems for prospective clients
- Translate client business needs into technical solution designs and actionable recommendations for platform, structural, or logic issues
- Manage day-to-day technical relationship with client stakeholders on active engagements
Pre-Sales
- Lead technical workstreams in pre-sales: estimation, scoping, solution proposals, and orals/proposal defense sessions
- Partner with other practices on cross-functional solution plays and pre-sales activity
- Support sales cycles by leading solution presentations and building POCs for prospective clients
People & Team Leadership
- Manage, mentor, and develop junior technical resources assigned to your projects
- Provide technical oversight and support to team members working across multiple concurrent engagements, beyond your own direct project assignments
- Review deliverables and unblock technical issues for junior staff on other projects as needed
- Manage projects and teams against planned scope, timeline, and delivery milestones
Qualifications:
- 8+ years in business intelligence/analytics solution delivery, including 4+ years hands-on Snowflake development and architecture
- SnowPro Core certified; SnowPro Advanced: Architect preferred
- Strong SQL development skills, including advanced analytic functions and query performance tuning
- Experience with dbt and at least one major cloud platform (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Working knowledge of BI/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Qlik, or similar)
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, etc.)
- 3+ years of consulting/project-based delivery experience (SDLC, Agile/Kanban/DevOps)
- Demonstrated experience writing business requirements, use cases/user stories, and functional test cases for data warehouse/data mart initiatives
- Prior experience managing or mentoring a technical team, including performance guidance for junior resources
- Proven ability to lead client conversations, present architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders, and support sales cycles
- Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
Spaulding Ridge’s Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace
When we engage the expertise, insights, and creativity of people from all walks of life, we become a better organization, we deliver superior services to clients, and we transform our communities and world for the better.
At Spaulding Ridge, we believe our team should reflect the rich diversity of society and we take seriously the responsibility to cultivate a workplace where every bandmate feels accepted, respected, and valued for who they are. We do this by creating a culture of trust and belonging, through practices and policies that support inclusion, and through our employee led Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): CRE (Cultural Race and Ethnicity), Women Elevate, PROUD and Mental Wellness Alliance.
The company is committed to offering Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with Spaulding Ridge and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our VP of Human Resources, Cara Halladay (challaday@spauldingridge.com). Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.