Who You’ll Work With

As the Director of Data Engineering & Architecture at Slalom, you will oversee and inspire a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers, providing both strategic direction and hands-on leadership. You will drive our business forward by empowering your team, delivering outstanding client results, and nurturing a culture of learning, inclusion, and growth. You will shape and lead complex engagements, guiding architectural vision, solution delivery, and practice development.

What You’ll Do

People & Team Leadership:

• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of leaders, Data Architects and Data Engineers.
• Foster a diverse, inclusive, and growth-minded culture that aligns with Slalom’s values.
• Coach team members through career development, feedback, and stretch opportunities.

Practice Development:

• Lead the evolution and adoption of modern data engineering and architecture best practices.
• Contribute to thought leadership, internal training, and knowledge sharing across the practice.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and piloting emerging technologies, including AI-accelerated engineering.
• Own team health and assist in workforce planning by monitoring and managing key team metrics - including utilization, headcount, hiring, capability growth, and capacity against demand - to support sustainable growth and delivery excellence.

Client & Market Leadership:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, shaping data strategies and roadmaps.
• Represent Slalom in the market through speaking engagements, client workshops, and industry events.

Client Delivery Responsibilities

• Solution Architecture & Technical Oversight:
  • Lead solution design and technical delivery for complex data engineering and architecture projects across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Guide teams in assessing current-state client environments and defining scalable, future-state architectures.
  • Oversee the implementation of production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and workflows.
• Engagement Management:
  • Drive client engagement from discovery through delivery, ensuring alignment to business goals and technical excellence.
  • Balance architectural leadership with hands-on involvement, stepping in to resolve technical challenges as needed.
  • Collaborate closely with client stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable solutions.
• Quality & Excellence:
  • Ensure delivery excellence by setting and upholding standards for architecture, engineering, and project execution.
  • Promote the use of AI-accelerated tools and automation to drive efficiency, scalability, and quality.
  • Maintain a primary focus on data platforms, pipelines, and architecture, with minimal emphasis on BI/reporting.

What You’ll Bring

You are a visionary leader and hands-on expert passionate about shaping and delivering next-generation data solutions. With a strong foundation in modern cloud data platforms, you thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and client engagement. You are energized by leading high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and ensuring exceptional client outcomes.

As a Director at Slalom, you will play a critical role in advancing our data engineering and architecture capabilities—enabling clients to unlock transformative value from their data. You’ll bring your previous experience to make an impact in this space, including:

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related fields.
• 5+ years in technical leadership and team management roles.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing delivery environments.
• Familiarity with modern data engineering tools, languages, and paradigms (e.g., Spark, Python, dbt, Terraform, generative AI).

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.

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 this role is $214,000 to $261,500 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 will accept applicants until July 15th date, or until the position is filled.

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. This recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. 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 or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.