Manager, Implementations

Kinective • Golden, CO

3d • $100,000 - $110,000

About The Position

The Manager, Implementations leads execution of client implementations within Kinective’s Data Intelligence organization. This hands-on player-coach provides technical guidance across SQL, data structures, and integrations, ensuring work is clearly defined, technically sound, and delivered efficiently. The role bridges delivery and engineering by driving clarity, removing blockers, and supporting team execution while balancing technical involvement with team ownership. The manager helps deliver solutions that meet client objectives and business outcomes.

The role reports to the Senior Manager, Implementations and manages Implementation Analysts and Data Engineers. Success is measured by predictable, on-time delivery; reduced rework and escalations; faster cycle times; consistent, high-quality outputs; and strong team ownership with less dependence on senior leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical delivery, engineering, or data-focused roles.
• Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring technical delivery teams.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, data modeling and table design, and data transformation and integration patterns.
• Ability to read, understand, and guide technical solutions and earn credibility without needing to code everything personally.
• Experience working in client-facing delivery environments.
• Strong problem-solving and organizational skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous requirements and keep execution on track.
• A practical, outcomes-focused approach that balances hands-on guidance, team ownership, and a strong client experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with platforms such as Oracle HeatWave or similar data/lakehouse environments.
• Background in financial services, fintech, or data-driven products.
• Experience within Professional Services or Implementations organizations.
• Familiarity with structured delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day execution of Data Intelligence implementations, ensuring work is sequenced, tracked, and delivered on time.
• Partner with Project Managers to align on scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for delivery-related issues, remove blockers, and drive resolution.
• Keep client objectives central to delivery; identify risks, communicate clearly, and align solutions with business outcomes.
• Provide technical guidance on SQL and query development, data modeling and table structures, data transformations, and integrations.
• Review and validate solution approaches before development begins.
• Break complex requirements into clear, executable tasks.
• Demonstrate approaches or validate and correct technical direction when needed, unblocking work while preserving team ownership.
• Ensure work meets a clear Definition of Ready, with defined data sources and dependencies, expected outputs, and sufficient execution context.
• Improve requirements clarity and standardize work documentation and handoffs.
• Enforce design validation before build and peer review for all production-bound work.
• Maintain standards for data accuracy, query performance, scalability, and maintainability, and reduce rework through early validation and structured execution.
• Lead daily team execution, including standups, work reviews, and prioritization.
• Mentor team members on problem-solving, technical solution design, and efficient, maintainable SQL.
• Foster ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement; support onboarding and development of Implementation Analysts.
• Identify delivery bottlenecks and inefficiencies, recommend and implement practical process improvements, and build reusable patterns for queries, transformations, and integrations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, prescriptions, life, and disability coverage.
• Flexible PTO.
• 11 company holidays.
• Generous parental and caregiver leave.
• Immediately vested 401(k) with company contributions.
• Wellness resources.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, or equity, depending on the role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed