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.
As a Senior Manager in Data Solutions, you'll own delivery quality and client relationships across multiple Snowflake-led engagements, provide technical direction to Solution Architects and project teams, and contribute to growing the practice's capability, accelerators, and market presence. This is a hands-on delivery leadership role with escalation ownership, and people development across a portfolio of projects.
Responsibilities
Delivery & Client Ownership
- Own delivery quality, timelines, and technical direction across multiple concurrent Snowflake engagements
- Serve as senior escalation point for client stakeholders on architecture, delivery risk, and scope issues
- Review and approve solution architecture and design decisions made by Solution Architects/Team Leads on assigned accounts
- Manage senior-level client relationships, including steering committee/status reporting and expectation management
- Identify delivery risks early and drive corrective action across accounts
Pre-Sales & Account Growth
- Lead technical pre-sales for larger or more complex opportunities: estimation, scoping, solutioning, and orals/proposal defense
- Identify account growth and cross-sell opportunities within existing client relationships
- Partner with sales and other practices on solution plays, RFP responses, and multi-service proposals
People Leadership
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Solution Architects, Team Leads, and engineers across multiple projects
- Own performance management, career development, and capability-building for assigned reports
- Support resource planning and staffing decisions across the practice's active engagements
- Coach Team Leads on client management, technical decision-making, and junior mentoring
Practice Building
- Contribute to reusable accelerators, frameworks, and IP for the Data & AI practice
- Support capability development initiatives (training, certifications, POV building) within the team
- Represent the practice in internal capability reviews and client-facing capability presentations
Qualifications
- 12+ years in business intelligence/analytics solution delivery, including 6+ years hands-on Snowflake architecture and delivery
- Prior experience managing multiple concurrent client engagements or a portfolio of projects
- SnowPro Advanced: Architect preferred; SnowPro Core required
- Strong background in Snowflake architecture (data modeling, security/RBAC, cost optimization, performance tuning) with ability to review and validate others' designs
- Experience with dbt and at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Exposure to BI/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Qlik, or similar)
- 6+ years of consulting/project-based delivery experience, including client-facing senior stakeholder management
- Proven track record managing and developing technical teams, including other managers/leads
- Experience supporting pre-sales at scale — proposal leadership, orals, solutioning for large or multi-workstream deals
- Strong executive communication, negotiation, and escalation-management skills
- Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives (accelerators, capability building, account growth) is a plus
- Hands on with Snowflake Cortex AI, Python or similar GenAI-on-data capabilities is a must.
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 ([email protected]). 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.
Skills Required
- 12+ years in business intelligence/analytics solution delivery, including 6+ years hands-on Snowflake architecture and delivery
- Prior experience managing multiple concurrent client engagements or a portfolio of projects
- SnowPro Core certification
- SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification
- Strong Snowflake architecture experience (data modeling, security/RBAC, cost optimization, performance tuning)
- Experience with dbt
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Exposure to BI/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Qlik, or similar)
- 6+ years consulting/project-based delivery experience, including client-facing senior stakeholder management
- Proven track record managing and developing technical teams, including other managers/leads
- Experience supporting pre-sales at scale (proposal leadership, orals, solutioning for large or multi-workstream deals)
- Strong executive communication, negotiation, and escalation-management skills
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI, Python or similar GenAI-on-data capabilities
- Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives (accelerators, capability building, account growth)
What We Do
Spaulding Ridge designs, implements, and supports business technology solutions for companies in a wide range of industries, thinking beyond templated solutions to provide real competitive advantage. When we’re working on a project, we’re an extension of their team. We help the organizations we serve get maximum value from the work we deliver, now and through the life of the system. As a company committed to social good, we’re a consulting firm that our clients can be proud to partner with—and a firm where they know every member of the team truly believes in the mission. We build personal relationships with the people we work with, and we work smart and hard to deliver total satisfaction with our work. We help our clients through a variety of services and disciplines: IT Strategy & Advisory Cloud Implementation & Process Improvement Business Transformation & Customer Engagement To learn more, visit www.spauldingridge.com
Why Work With Us
At Spaulding Ridge, we believe all business is personal. Each interaction with clients and colleagues is an opportunity to connect and contribute to mutual success. We prioritize our employees’ professional development through challenging and meaningful work, offering top-notch training, mentoring and ample opportunities for growth.
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