Senior Principal - Software Engineering (Austin or Houston or Dallas)

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 and copilots) 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

The Software Engineering Senior Principal balances their time between being an effective people leader and setting the technical direction in the delivery of some of our most challenging engagements. You are the advocate for your direct reports. You will develop strong, lasting relationships with each of them as you identify the perfect project match for their skills and objectives. You will partner with clients to understand the most complex technical and functional challenges they are facing. As you iterate on solutions with clients, you will develop implementation and delivery plans that take advantage of emerging technologies at scale. You will coordinate with other capabilities and technical leads in order to ensure that world‑class user experiences are understood, validation procedures are aligned, and automation components are delivered. You will help in the pursuit of new business opportunities as a technical expert, detailing proposals for how we would approach delivery. Your expertise in designing and developing holistic software solutions will benefit the rest of Slalom Cloud‑Build capability as you lead communities and provide mentorship to other team members.

• Advocate for, and manage, direct reports throughout their project alignment and professional development while helping them grow their career.
• Co‑lead discovery and delivery project phases alongside other capability leaders.
• Develop and execute implementation plans in alignment with features and functionality designed to exceed client expectations across multiple value streams.
• Empower your team to deliver high‑quality application code by establishing pragmatic, repeatable approaches to write, validate, and ship software on medium‑to‑large projects.
• Provide technical delivery expertise in new project pursuits alongside a skilled pursuit team.
• Advance the craft by developing and sharing materials and thought leadership with other builders.

We are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment as we build the foundation and grow our team in the TOLA market. 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 Dallas, Austin, or Houston office.

What You’ll Bring

You have developed a keen sense for the needs of team members as well as project stakeholders. You are ready to put the needs of others ahead of your own as you build on your capacity as a servant people leader / manager. You steadily build rapport with your direct reports who will look to you for professional guidance. You will utilize your breadth of software design and delivery experience as well as your strong collaboration skills in order to coordinate the delivery of complex systems across multi‑pod delivery projects. Your ability to communicate ideas through diagrams, documents and code will contribute to the team’s ability to realize your client’s vision at scale. Your sphere of influence grows as you interact with business and technology leaders to coordinate and deliver the right solution to them. You will work with other pursuit leads, sharing your technical expertise in engagement pursuits to help ensure that our technical approach is well‑represented while demonstrating Slalom Build’s delivery capability. You will feed others’ desire to learn and grow through your influence as a technical thought leader as you continue to expand your technical acumen across technologies and platforms.

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 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 role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Senior Principal in both Austin and Houston is $193,000 to $236,000. 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 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 View email address on click.appcast.io if you require accommodations during the interview process.