Senior Principal

• We are excited to be launching in Colombia and will have enhanced job postings with English and Spanish in early 2025.

Senior Principal – Platform Engineering

Who You'll Work With

At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what's possible, give shape to the future—and get there.

Within Slalom, our Build capability helps customers maximize the value of the software they create. We do this by…

• Being fast, effective, high-quality, and consistent
• Evolving our software development lifecycle by blending cutting-edge AI tooling with outcome-focused strategic thinking
• Delivering end-to-end to our customers at any scale and at any point in their journey.

Slalom Build capability is looking for a Senior Principal to join our Americas team in the Platform Engineering (PE) discipline. Our PE engineers build the secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create the platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast, while minimizing toil.

You'll be leading all aspects of a team of PE engineers located in one of our physical locations. A PE team consists of 1-5 individual contributor engineers, each focused on a single client's outcome. Success in this role requires a variety of skills such as: Delivering as a hands-on solution architect working for a client, mentoring and coaching your team, and providing technical expertise for sales pursuits.

We are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment as we build the foundation and grow our team in Columbia. 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 Do

In PE, a Senior Principal helps teams and clients design and build highly scalable, automated solutions in the cloud. Principals are responsible for the hands-on design of cloud and DevOps architecture, technology decisions, and working collaboratively with a project team to ensure successful solution delivery. Specifically, you will:

• Act as a hands-on, senior technical lead for large scale, multi-functional product teams creating purpose-built software products for our clients.
• Lead an initial engagement discovery for a large scale or complex project and remain accountable and responsible for the design and delivery of a modern Platform Engineering solution.
• Support, mentor, and coach as People Manager for a team of 1 to 5 PE engineers.
• Provide additional mentorship and coaching of engineers across PE and other capabilities in your location.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise via technical qualifications and architecture direction setting in sales pursuits.
• Conduct technical interviews for PE recruiting.
• Contribute to PE-wide events and initiatives.
• Help grow our culture of learning by taking part in and coordinating opportunities such as presenting at technical conferences, community groups, writing blog articles, and contributing to partner-coordinated workshops.
• Travel may be required on a limited basis dependent on your client engagement or internal meetings/events.

What You'll Bring

Senior Principals in PE bring a proven track record in building and deploying highly scalable public cloud-based solutions using modern DevOps techniques. You'll showcase your experience in all phases of product development, software development, and testing lifecycles regardless of cloud platform. In addition, you'll leverage experience in established technology and product departments with mature program management processes and standards for both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean) and waterfall project methodologies.

As a Senior Principal you will participate in proposals, contract creation, and business operations. You'll bring your passion for building software solutions with state-of-the-art technology to tackle challenging situations and solve complex problems. Showing your ability to mentor others and engage with clients across all levels will be your path to success in leading teams at Slalom while driving maximum value for our customers.

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 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.