Director - Software Engineering (Charlotte)

Slalom

Slalom

Software Engineering

Charlotte, NC, USA

USD 220k-269k / year + Equity

Posted on May 5, 2026

Who You’ll Work With

The Cloud-Build's Software Engineering discipline within Slalom co-creates custom software, data, and cloud products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We're passionate about technology, compelled by its potential as we help create the digital products, experiences, and technology-driven organizations that drive true change. We’re thrilled by the opportunity to build the future we want to see, with anyone willing to join us.

The Software Engineering discipline brings our clients’ vision to life! We use modern tools and techniques (including GenAI tools) to build secure, highly scalable software products that handle our clients' most innovative and strategic work. We follow Agile practices when building software components and applications that utilize modern frameworks and cloud scale in order to accelerate our clients' business. Our software engineers are committed to the craft of collaboratively building high-quality and sustainable software products that delight our clients and their customers by taking advantage of emerging tools in an ever-changing technological landscape.

We build full-stack solutions across a range of established and emerging technologies and techniques according to the needs of our clients including:

  • Front end applications targeting native mobile and modern web platforms. Examples include React, Angular and Vue.
  • APIs and back-end services built using emerging frameworks and architectural patterns. Examples include Node, Typescript, Java and .Net.
  • Hosting, Generative AI, and application services provided by industry leading cloud providers. Examples include AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Operational efficiencies leveraging modern ecosystems and automated build and deployment pipelines.
  • Collaborative build practices, including Generative AI tooling, that allow our teams to be agile and responsive to our clients’ needs.

What You’ll Do

You are a respected technical delivery leader with deep and varied expertise in building software engineering teams. You understand how to jump in and get your hands dirty when needed and you also understand how to drive high performing delivery teams. You will be responsible for the development of services and offerings while ensuring we have the right team who can deliver at scale. You will manage multi-level reporting structures while managing your capability within the Carolinas market. You will likely find yourself leading client delivery as the dedicated senior architect on some of our most complex engagements. You will guide teams and clients as a trusted technical leader. Specifically, you will:

  • Co-lead discovery and delivery project phases alongside other capability leaders for complex projects and programs as the solution lead.
  • Champion a culture of delivery excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning in a team environment.
  • Develop and execute implementation plans in alignment with features and functionality designed to delight clients and customers.
  • Provide oversight and guidance for other software engineers across multiple workstreams on complex projects and programs.
  • Lead and grow emerging software engineering leaders.
  • Collaborate with other software development capabilities to iteratively design, develop, validate, and operate software at scale using agile techniques.
  • Provide solutioning and technical expertise during the sales process to craft solutions that meet our client’s timelines and desired outcomes at cost-effective price points.
  • Advance the craft by developing and sharing materials and thought leadership with other builders while providing space for other leaders to do the same.

We are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently, with days that may require in-person collaboration at our office. A requirement of this role is to live within commutable distance from our Charlotte office.

What You’ll Bring

You will lean heavily on your depth and breadth of software delivery experience to guide teams through the holistic pursuit and delivery of complex systems. You bring your ability to articulate and plan for holistic delivery leveraging the entire delivery tool chain including ALM, GenAI, CI/CD, IDE, documentation, and prototyping tools. You have an acute understanding of the needs of client business and technology leaders, and you can help them articulate their needs in order to best formulate a pursuit plan. You can tune your collaboration style adapting to client and team members who have different ways of working together. You have awareness of the needs of other leaders in order best coach and mentor them toward powerful outcomes for their teams. You feed your own curiosity as well as that of your team through the empowerment of others to establish forums for discussion and collaboration. You bring a demonstrated curiosity and passion for the constant evolution of technologies and techniques that are used to build and ship high quality software with a track record of exploring, experimenting, and evolving delivery practices on your teams to meet our clients’ ever-changing needs.

About Us

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 partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

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 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 role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Director is $$220,000 to $269,000. 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.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.