Director, Data Engineering and Architecture

As a Director of Data Systems & Platforms at Slalom, you will be a market-facing leader within the Data & AI practice. You will help grow the business by generating sales and creating and delivering offerings and solutions that address clients’ data platform, engineering, and architecture priorities. You will partner with market, account, capability, alliance, and delivery leaders to translate business needs into differentiated solutions.

You will support the sales motion from opportunity shaping through delivery, with accountability for high-quality solutioning, profitable growth, and measurable client outcomes.

• Generate demand and support sales growth for Data Systems & Platforms offerings within priority accounts and industries.
• Lead discovery, qualification, solution shaping, estimation, proposal development, and executive presentations for complex pursuits.
• Create, refine, and bring to market repeatable offerings, accelerators, and solution approaches aligned to client needs and Slalom strategy.
• Build compelling value propositions, business cases, and roadmaps that connect data platform investments to measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with account and sales leaders to identify expansion opportunities, strengthen pipeline, and convert client needs into executable solutions.
• Ensure proposed solutions have clear value, delivery feasibility, commercial integrity, and an appropriate return on investment.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, facilitating conversations that clarify business priorities, platform choices, transformation pathways, and expected outcomes.
• Champion specialized Data Systems & Platforms expertise in external engagements, industry forums, and client-facing thought leadership.
• Develop and activate networks with industry peers, internal experts, cloud providers, and data platform partners to strengthen pursuits and client outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-capability and multi-market teams to bring the best of Slalom to complex opportunities.
• Build durable client relationships by balancing ambition, pragmatism, and credibility throughout the sell-to-deliver lifecycle.

• Provide hands-on leadership during critical phases of delivery to maintain continuity between the solution sold and the outcomes delivered.
• Guide modern data platform, data engineering, architecture, migration, integration, governance, and operating-model solutions across cloud ecosystems.
• Partner with delivery leaders to establish solution quality, manage risks, resolve escalations, and protect client and business outcomes.
• Use delivery insights, reusable assets, automation, and AI-enabled engineering practices to improve speed, quality, and repeatability.
• Contribute to capability, industry, and customer-outcome performance through strategic thinking, disciplined execution, and high-quality solutioning.
• Monitor relevant sales, pipeline, revenue, margin, utilization, and delivery indicators, taking action to support sustainable and profitable growth.

• Foster a high-performance, inclusive culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, learning, and Slalom’s values.
• Lead and mentor practitioners and solution leaders, helping them deepen expertise and build confidence in client and pursuit settings.
• Connect delivery, sales, alliances, and capability communities to share patterns, assets, lessons learned, and market insights.
• Facilitate strategy aligned with business outcomes and financial targets, and help leaders translate that strategy into focused action.
• Stay current on market trends and…