Description and RequirementsJob Description
We are seeking a Migration Strategist to serve as one of our foremost migration experts-helping clients solve their most complex migration challenges while shaping how migration is delivered across the firm. This role combines executive advisory, pursuit leadership, technical architecture, and delivery excellence. You will lead complex migration programs, influence enterprise transformation strategies, mentor consultants and architects, and develop reusable approaches that differentiate our Migration capability in the marketplace.
Job Title: Migration Strategist
So, what will I do?Sales Solutioning
- Serve as the migration subject matter expert on strategic pursuits, helping shape client vision, solution strategy, implementation approach, and delivery estimates.
- Lead migration discovery workshops to assess client landscapes, identify risks, define migration strategies, and build executive confidence.
- Develop migration proposals, solution collateral, accelerators, and points of view that strengthen Slalom's market differentiation.
- Partner with account leaders and delivery teams to position migration as a strategic investment and critical path to business enablement and transformation success.
Strategic Advisory
- Advise executive stakeholders on enterprise migration strategies supporting business application implementation, M&A, and AI initiatives.
- Assess complex legacy environments, data quality, business processes, and organizational readiness to define migration roadmaps.
- Guide clients in selecting migration approaches, decision frameworks ,regulatory considerations ,and success metrics.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and automate migration activities while reducing business risk.
Architecture & Design
- Lead design of enterprise migration architectures, including:
- Source-to-target mapping
- Dependency identification
- Tool selection
- Data quality frameworks
- Validation and reconciliation approaches
- Cutover strategies
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, data engineering teams, application teams, security, and integration specialists to deliver best-fit migration solutions.
- Establish migration design standards, reusable patterns, accelerators, and leading practices across engagements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies-including AI-enabled migration tooling-to improve quality, productivity, and delivery outcomes.
Delivery Leadership
- Lead complex migration engagements from discovery through design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple migration workstreams while mentoring delivery teams.
- Guide project teams in planning, estimation, risk management, issue resolution, and quality assurance.
- Ensure migration solutions meet client objectives for data integrity, business continuity, security, and performance.
- Serve as the senior migration advisor for executive steering committees and governance forums.
- Build trusted relationships with client executives, program leaders, architects, and business stakeholders.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives, IT leaders, and business stakeholders
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business insights, impacts, and decisions
- Lead architecture review forums, executive communications, and status reporting with clarity and confidence
Practice & Capability Development
- Develop reusable migration frameworks, methodologies, templates, accelerators, and delivery assets.
- Share migration expertise across Enterprise capabilities through training, mentoring, communities of practice, and knowledge sharing.
- Coach consultants, architects, and technical leaders in migration best practices and delivery excellence.
- Contribute to thought leadership through white papers, conference presentations, internal learning, and market-facing content.
- Partner with capability leaders to continuously evolve Slalom's Migration offerings and service portfolio.
And, what will I bring?- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise data or content migration programs, preferably within consulting.
- Deep expertise designing and leading migration initiatives supporting ERP, CRM, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, and enterprise platform implementations and M&A activities.
- Demonstrated success leading migration discovery, solution architecture, implementation planning, and delivery for large, complex organizations.
- Strong understanding of data engineering principles including ETL/ELT, data modeling, pipeline architecture, cloud data platforms, and integration patterns.
- Experience designing migration validation strategies, reconciliation frameworks, cutover planning, and data quality processes.
- Expertise working across AWS, Azure, GCP, and modern enterprise application ecosystems.
- Experience partnering with executive stakeholders to align migration strategies with business outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business and executive audiences.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, compliance, and enterprise architecture principles.
- Experience leveraging AI, automation, and modern tooling to improve migration delivery efficiency.
- Proven ability to mentor technical teams while fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% based on client and project needs.
Hybrid/In office: We are hybrid but there are expectations that if your team leader or client requires you onsite that you are able to meet those expectations/requirementsSlalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the expected base salary pay range is $130,000 to $162,000. In addition, there is potential for a 12% discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation will depend upon individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant factors.
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
