Senior Principal - AI Accelerated Engineering Lead; East

Senior Principal - AI Accelerated Engineering Lead (East)

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As a Senior Principal, you will guide teams in the shift toward AI-accelerated engineering and define clear guardrails for how generative AI supports software delivery. You will also own the architecture of client solutions while pioneering the next generation of AI-empowered software development. You’ll lead teams in adopting AI-first engineering practices—bringing clarity, structure, and guardrails to how organizations build with generative AI.

You’ll join a tightly knit product team
—engineers, product leaders, designers, and data practitioners—who co‑create modern software with our customers. We move from discovery to delivery together, pairing on code, pressure‑testing ideas with real users, and turning learnings into ship‑ready increments. You’ll collaborate with customer stakeholders and field teams to bring outside‑in insights into the roadmap, and you’ll help enable clients on the practices and tools we use so they can sustain value long after launch.

Think craft‑driven Builders who care about outcomes, not just output.

• Lead delivery and implementation:
  Oversee discovery, delivery, and implementation planning across multiple value streams and ensure teams ship high quality software using clear, repeatable approaches.
• Guide people and technical direction:
  Support direct reports in their growth, provide technical leadership in pursuits, and contribute knowledge that strengthens engineering practices across Slalom.
• Redefine the AI-first SDLC:
  Design flows, patterns, and guardrails that integrate generative AI from ideation through operations.
• Lead with context engineering:
  Apply and guide strategies like prompt templating, embeddings, retrieval‑augmented generation, and data grounding to ensure AI-driven development is accurate, reliable, and safe.
• Manage GenAI-driven teams:
  Orchestrate multi‑developer environments where AI agents and engineers work side by side—ensuring productivity, quality, and responsible adoption.
• Ship AI-enabled platforms:
  Build and codify repeatable practices such as evaluation harnesses, code‑review agents, context packs, and CI/CD hooks.
• Stay hands‑on:
  Own product architecture while prototyping and hardening AI‑driven solutions using modern Dev Ops and observability practices.
• Enable and transform:
  Coach teams and client stakeholders on AI‑accelerated ways of working; translate complex AI concepts into clear business outcomes.

• Leadership & communication:
  Ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and articulate value to both technical and business audiences.
• Experience:
  
  8+ years building and operating production software, with proven leadership in system or platform architecture.
• Hands‑on AI‑accelerated development:
  Daily use of agentic IDEs and advanced tooling (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) beyond basic chat interfaces.
• Proven track record with GenAI integration:
  Experience delivering solutions where multiple developers collaborated with generative AI and AI agents using context engineering strategies.
• Architecture expertise:
  Deep knowledge of APIs, microservices, eventing, reliability, and security.
• Programming skills:
  Proficiency in languages like Type Script/Node, Python, or Java; comfort with React/Next and modern frameworks.
• Cloud & Dev Ops:
  Strong background with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, and production observability.

• AI orchestration frameworks (Lang Chain, Llama Index), vector databases, or model routing experience.
• MLOps, AI governance, or safety practices.
• Contributions to open source or thought leadership in AI-accelerated engineering.

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,…