Description and Requirements

Job Description

Senior Principal - AI Accelerated Engineering Lead (For Vacant Role)

Mission

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.

Who you'll work with

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.

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 and Build capability as you lead communities and provide mentorship to other Builders. Specifically, you will:

• 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 DevOps 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.

What you'll bring

• 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., GitHub 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 TypeScript/Node, Python, or Java; comfort with React/Next and modern frameworks.
• Cloud & DevOps: Strong background with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, and production observability.

Bonus Skills

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

Hybrid/In office: We are hybrid but there are expectations that if your team leader requires you onsite that you are able to meet those expectations/requirements

Slalom Employee Perks:

• Culture & fun!
• Lunch & learns
• Health & wellness activities
• Holiday parties
• Employee community groups
• Social clubs & activities
• Vacation (20 days prorated based on start date & wellness/sick days)

Tangible perks

• Competitive compensation package
• $100 cell phone monthly reimbursement
• Registered Retirement Program (RRSP) & Employer Matching
• Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
• Annual "Thrive Well-Being" Gift Card
• Family planning/ Fertility Benefit
• Maternity/Parental Leave Top-Up
• Medical & Dental Benefits
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Access to Supplementary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Inkblot Therapy
• And more!

*All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements