Here's your pics:
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Yes, it does look like a Picea engelmannii cultivar, though hard to be certain as the pics are fairly small.

Resin

The first link works, the other two do not.

Picea engelmannii I agree. Looks like a cultivar. Possibly 'Snake'.

Dax

I am glad that I was not mistaken ...
I think that it is not a cultivar, as in our locality varietal Engelmann spruce are not available. I think that cutting for grafting was taken not from the top of the crown, but with the sides. That is why there is no escape, and the leading branch is not strong.
Perhaps, when the spruce will be over, leading escape definitely will ...

That's right. Perhaps.... We won't ever know unfortunately or at least not until such as a time comes along when the tree has more distinctive traits.

Let your friend that it's a Picea engelmannii and that the tree needs to be stake lightly for just a year and that the farthest branch toward the center of the photo should be clipped off at its location growing from the (main) trunk.

Apical or upright growth on that tree will actually become a certainty.......

Dax