Snowflake Architect

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 youll lead pre-sales estimation scoping design and delivery of modern analytics solutions on Snowflake. Youll 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 Ridges 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 (). 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.