{"id":4144633,"url":"https://alion.io/job/spauldingridge-senior-forward-deployed-engineer","title":"Senior Forward Deployed Engineer","company":{"id":685327,"name":"Spauldingridge","domain":"spauldingridge.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/spauldingridge","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":18,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.389,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":98,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India","Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Structured Outputs","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Airflow","optional":true},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","optional":true},{"name":"Apex","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Cortex","optional":true},{"name":"Fivetran","optional":true},{"name":"GCP","optional":true},{"name":"Looker","optional":true},{"name":"Matillion","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric","optional":true},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":true},{"name":"MuleSoft","optional":true},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":true},{"name":"Power BI","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true},{"name":"Streamlit","optional":true},{"name":"Tableau","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T04:16:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T06:35:34Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":0},"description":"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.\nAt 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. \nWhat You Will Do and Learn\nWe’re looking for a hands-on Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join Spaulding Ridge’s Data Solutions practice. You will work directly alongside client business users and technical teams to understand their workflows, uncover high-value problems and build solutions they use in day-to-day operations.\nWorking across Snowflake, data engineering, APIs, analytics, applications and AI-enabled workflows, you will take solutions from discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment and adoption. You will test assumptions with users, make pragmatic engineering decisions and measure results against agreed business outcomes. This includes identifying where conventional automation, AI assistance or agent-based approaches best fit the problem.\nThis is a manager-grade technical leadership role with sustained responsibility for architecture, coding and troubleshooting. You will guide engineers and own technical delivery, partnering with engagement leadership on overall scope, staffing, project budgets and client commitments. Client work may include Office of the CFO workflows such as reconciliation, financial reporting, planning and variance analysis, alongside other enterprise use cases.\nWork closely with end users to observe workflows, investigate pain points and agree priorities, success measures and a practical first release, including when requirements are unclear.\nBuild working prototypes quickly, demonstrate them to users and iterate on feedback. Decide which ideas to develop, change or stop before committing to production delivery.\nDesign and implement solutions across source systems, ingestion, Snowflake, transformation, semantic layers, APIs and user-facing applications. Personally code and debug critical components.\nOwn Snowflake architecture decisions covering data models, warehouse configuration, ingestion, role-based access, data sharing and environments. Optimize performance, reliability and running costs.\nBuild reliable pipelines and transformation models, with data quality checks, reconciliation and governed metrics. Deliver reporting and analytics where they support the client’s workflow.\nDevelop applications and APIs with authentication, secure data access, logging and error handling. Build workflows that help users investigate issues, make decisions and take action.\nBuild and integrate LLM-enabled applications and tool-using agents where they improve client outcomes. Apply retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise data access and workflow orchestration where appropriate, choosing the simplest effective solution.\nEstablish appropriate controls for AI workflows, including context management, tool permissions, human approvals, evaluation, tracing and failure recovery. Test accuracy and task completion against representative examples, and monitor cost and response time.\nUse AI coding assistants and agents, such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Snowflake CoCo or equivalents, for coding, testing, debugging and documentation. Review generated output, protect client information and remain accountable for engineering quality.\nTake solutions into production through testing, CI/CD, monitoring and operational documentation. Resolve rollout issues and establish a clear support and ownership handover.\nSupport user adoption and measure results with client teams against agreed baselines, such as manual effort, processing time, reliability and cost. Use findings to improve the solution.\nLead technical priorities, estimates, dependencies and risks; communicate trade-offs to stakeholders and raise scope or delivery issues early. Coach engineers through design and code reviews.\nContribute technical discovery, scoping and demonstrations to proposals. Turn repeatable solutions into tested accelerators, application components, reusable agent tools and reference architectures for the practice.\nEssential qualifications\nWe are looking for depth in Snowflake and data engineering, demonstrated application-building ability, practical AI engineering experience and sound technical delivery judgment. Candidates should be able to explain what they have built, how they tested it and how it performed in use.\n10+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, including hands-on software or data engineering and delivery of production solutions for clients or business stakeholders. This refers to overall experience, not years working with AI or agent frameworks.\nStrong hands-on Snowflake and SQL experience, including data modeling, ingestion, access controls, performance and cost optimization, and production implementation.\nExperience building reliable data pipelines and transformation models using dbt or comparable tools, with appropriate orchestration, testing and reconciliation.\nStrong programming skills in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript and a relevant back-end framework. Proven ability to deliver a usable application across the interface, API and data layers. Deep expertise in every front-end framework is not required.\nExperience building APIs and integrations using REST, JSON and secure authentication such as OAuth, with appropriate authorization and error handling.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience developing, integrating and testing an LLM-enabled application or tool-using agent workflow connected to business data or systems. Working knowledge of prompt and context design, structured outputs, tool calling and RAG, including when these approaches are appropriate.\nExperience building and evaluating agent-based workflows using an established SDK, framework or platform. Understand execution state, tool access, limits, retries, error handling and human approvals. Be able to test grounding, task completion and failure scenarios.\nPractical experience using at least one AI-assisted development tool, including reviewing generated code, validating changes through tests and protecting client data and credentials.\nHands-on use of Git, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD and environment management. Experience deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting production solutions.\nAbility to apply data quality, privacy, security and audit requirements in engineering decisions, and to design reusable datasets and consistent business metrics for analytics.\nExperience working directly with users, translating ambiguous problems into practical solutions and iterating on feedback. Ability to understand business rules, exceptions and approval requirements, working with functional specialists where needed.\nExperience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers, including estimating work, managing technical risks and explaining technical choices to business and engineering audiences.\nA bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional experience.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience in the following areas would be valuable:\n Experience delivering solutions for the Office of the CFO is strongly preferred, particularly in at least one area such as financial close and reconciliation, management reporting, FP&A and variance analysis, or working capital. Familiarity with the relevant data, business rules, controls and approval workflows is more important than breadth across all finance functions.\nRelevant Snowflake certification, such as SnowPro Core or an advanced architecture or data engineering certification; experience with Snowpark, Cortex, Streamlit, Native Apps or Apache Iceberg.\nExperience deploying, monitoring and supporting AI applications or agents in production, including retrieval quality, evaluation datasets and continuous improvement based on user feedback.\nExperience developing multi-agent workflows, reusable agent skills or tools, custom agent harnesses, or integrations using Model Context Protocol (MCP). Ability to explain when the additional complexity is justified.\nExperience introducing agent-assisted engineering practices into a delivery team, including reusable project context, automated test generation and review workflows, with evidence of improvements in delivery speed or quality.\nDelivery experience with a BI or analytics platform such as Power BI, Sigma, Tableau, Looker or Omni, including semantic models and governed metrics.\nExperience with integration or orchestration platforms such as Fivetran, Matillion, Airflow, Boomi, MuleSoft or Workato; or interoperability with Microsoft Fabric.\nExperience with AWS, Azure or GCP application hosting, containers, serverless services or infrastructure as code.\nExposure to ERP, CRM, operations or other enterprise workflows, and to the governance, service management or compliance requirements relevant to those environments.\nSpaulding Ridge’s Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace \nWhen 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.\nAt 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.\nThe 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 (). 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