Senior Manager, Data Engineering
About the role
Overview
The Senior Manager, Data Engineering will serve as a senior pillar lead responsible for shaping data engineering strategy, growing a book of business, leading practice development, and overseeing delivery of enterprise-scale data transformation initiatives.
This role sits within FormativGroup’s Data & Analytics practice and blends consulting leadership, executive advisory, technical oversight, commercial ownership, and team development. The position is approximately 25% billable delivery and 75% business development, practice ownership, and strategic leadership.
As the Senior Manager, Data Engineering, you will partner with executive client stakeholders, lead account growth, oversee solution architecture, guide delivery teams, and help define scalable, modern data solutions across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and related cloud data ecosystems.
What You'll Work On
- Serve as a senior pillar lead for the Data & Analytics - Data Engineering practice.
- Own and grow a book of business through client relationship leadership, business development, and strategic account expansion.
- Lead strategic data modernization discussions with executive and senior client stakeholders.
- Shape solution strategy, future-state architecture, and transformation roadmaps for enterprise clients.
- Oversee delivery of complex data engineering programs, ensuring alignment to business outcomes, architecture standards, and delivery quality.
- Develop new data engineering offerings, accelerators, products, and reusable delivery assets.
- Provide technical oversight across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and equivalent modern data platforms.
- Guide solutioning for data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, advanced analytics enablement, and AI-ready data platforms.
- Lead proposal strategy, pursuit support, client presentations, and commercial solution development.