Director - AI Engineering

Who You’ll Work WithThe 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 DoYou are a fire-breathing, dragon-slaying, master of technology. You are an architect among architects. Technical leaders look up to you as their technical mentor. You will bring deep expertise around a specific capability within software engineering. You will be responsible for the development of services and offerings while ensuring we have the right team who is capable of delivering at scale. You will likely find yourself leading client delivery as the dedicated senior architect on some of our most complex engagements. You will consistently guide our teams and clients as a technical delivery expert. Specifically, you will:* Co-lead discovery and delivery project phases alongside other capability leaders for complex projects and programs as the solution lead.* 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.* Act as the capability lead as aligned to individual markets helping market leaders understand slalom’s build strategy while providing pursuit support.* 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. What You’ll BringYou 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 are able to help them articulate their needs in order to best formulate a pursuit plan. You are able to 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 an appreciation for the constant evolution of tools and techniques that are used to build and ship high quality software enabling your team to explore, experiment, and evolve our delivery practices to meet our clients’ ever-changing needs.About UsSlalom 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 BenefitsSlalom 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 the Director role is $195,000 to $255,000.  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: [1] View email address on click.appcast.io. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.EEO and AccommodationsSlalom 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 [2] View email address on click.appcast.io if you require accommodations during the interview process. ReferencesVisible links1. mailto:View email address on click.appcast.io. mailto:View email address on click.appcast.io