Data Engineering Director - Financial Services
Slalom
Accounting & Finance, Data Science
New York, NY, USA
USD 175k-281k / year
Posted on Jun 5, 2025
Who You Are
Slalom Consulting is looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, and progressive leader to do all things data. You will be assisting and providing strategic partnership to our clients in the Greater New York Area within the financial services space. The Data Engineering leader will provide thought leadership to our enterprise and mid-market clients, set strategic direction for the “Go-to-Market” practitioners and generally be accountable for ensuring the overall quality execution of business and technology consulting across all pursuits and engagements.
What You’ll Do
This role will act as a subject matter expert and thought leader at external events, and collaborates with industry partners to identify opportunities. Accountable for the Go-to-Market “GTM” focus within the Greater New York markets to drive sales, pursuits, solutioning, and account management. Also, contributing to delivery in billable roles, recruitment, and operational aspects of the Capability and market, including:
Capability Vision & Strategy
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position at the Director level the base salary pay range is $175,000-$281,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Slalom Consulting is looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, and progressive leader to do all things data. You will be assisting and providing strategic partnership to our clients in the Greater New York Area within the financial services space. The Data Engineering leader will provide thought leadership to our enterprise and mid-market clients, set strategic direction for the “Go-to-Market” practitioners and generally be accountable for ensuring the overall quality execution of business and technology consulting across all pursuits and engagements.
What You’ll Do
This role will act as a subject matter expert and thought leader at external events, and collaborates with industry partners to identify opportunities. Accountable for the Go-to-Market “GTM” focus within the Greater New York markets to drive sales, pursuits, solutioning, and account management. Also, contributing to delivery in billable roles, recruitment, and operational aspects of the Capability and market, including:
Capability Vision & Strategy
- Connects and drives Local strategy to the Market based on client portfolio, market maturity, and geographic makeup
- Tailors the market GTM strategy to align with local industries, clients and communities
- Partners with Industry aligned client partners and sales executives to identify and pursue potential opportunities related to Capability
- Individually acts as a Solution Lead or SME in the pursuit process, identifying appropriate SME from broader Capability team as needed
- Focuses on specific Customers aligned GTM strategy, driving targeted and bespoke sales motions.
- Participates in multi-Capability solutioning and client outcome based selling motions with GTM team
- Driving overall growth of the Data Engineering to our Financial Services Clients through a combination of business development, solutioning, talent management, oversight of delivery work, and thought leadership
- Driving business development and solutioning complex deals, cultivating and nurturing key relationships within Slalom and passionate about attracting and growing industry specific talent
- Building and develops relationships with our Account and Industry teams, as well our Data teams to drive account planning and joint pursuits
- Developing leading practice for GTM activities and focus, sales solutioning, and reusable collateral for sales accelerators
- Maximizing team performance through an effective team approach that increases productivity and job satisfaction
- Maintaining awareness of industry leading practices and business levers for our different offerings and understand how Slalom pursuit teams interact
- Proactively seeking out speaking opportunities within the geographic Market as Capability SME and thought leader at external conferences and events to generate net-new opportunities
- Identifies and works with Marketing and Operations to plan Slalom-led thought leadership events, in context of Capability and related Client Outcomes
- Works to proactively ignite awareness and generate demand for Capability and related client outcomes in the market. Participates in Campaigns, RFIs, RFPs, workshops and POCs to ignite specific opportunities
- Research client portfolio needs and adjusts focus to topics of resonance. Focuses on building client relationships at target and active client portfolio
- Providing engagement oversight and governance of Salesforce projects in market to ensure delivery quality
- Mentoring and upskill delivery team members through practice leadership and establishment of best practices
- Participates in Market specific and Capability specific rhythm of business for hiring, staffing, workforce planning; participates in planning process for Market dedicated Capability pool
- Supports the development of the small team of direct reports due to GTM focus, including leading other market or office Capability GTM Leads within the same Capability or who are focused on a specific sub- Capability /discipline
- Acts as mentor to other practitioners in area of Capability working to serve Market’s portfolio
- Participates in performance management via providing Feedback on Capability team members assigned to Market’s pursuits and delivery
- Works with New York's team and broader Capability leadership to create Capability specific growth and cost projections
- Works to achieve forecast against revenue and works with New York's leadership to identify when a Capability is unhealthy at Market level and agree to escalation of dedicated team members to next geo tier for staffing
- 15+ years of experience, specializing in enterprise wide deployed DW/BI solution architecture, design, and development preferably with consulting experience
- 5-7+ years of consulting experience leading pre-sales activities such as leading business development presentations, estimating level of effort for analytics and data work, creating proposals, writing SOWs and closing business, managing post sale delivery workload etc.
- Prior experience and/or active certification (a plus) in at least one of the major cloud technology platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure (data services), Snowflake, etc.
- Prior implementation experience of Snowflake AND/OR Databricks
- Data architecture and Data Modeling skills, specifically building / understanding star schema-based data marts, deep understanding of Slowly Changing Dimension strategies etc.
- Deep understanding of the financial srvices space, including current trends, growth opportunities, technology enablement, and regulations
- Expert business development and client management skills, including C-level relationships
- Technical understanding of Salesforce with demonstrated understanding and experience with Salesforce architecture
- Active certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire
- Exposure to Software Development Life Cycle methodologies
- Expert at program management and delivery
- Expert communication (verbal and written)
- Expert business operations (e.g., proposal development, SOWs, price modeling, margins, utilization)
- Skilled at managing multiple complex pursuits at once
- Excellent mentoring and leadership skills
- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through
- Strong work ethic with the proven ability to excel in a fast-paced, highly innovative environment
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position at the Director level the base salary pay range is $175,000-$281,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.