Description and RequirementsJob Description
Who You'll Work With
As the Director of Data Engineering & Architecture at Slalom, you will oversee and inspire a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers, providing both strategic direction and hands-on leadership. You will drive our business forward by empowering your team, delivering outstanding client results, and nurturing a culture of learning, inclusion, and growth. You will shape and lead complex engagements, guiding architectural vision, solution delivery, and practice development.
What You'll Do
People & Team Leadership:
- Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of leaders, Data Architects and Data Engineers.
- Foster a diverse, inclusive, and growth-minded culture that aligns with Slalom's values.
- Coach team members through career development, feedback, and stretch opportunities.
Practice Development:
- Lead the evolution and adoption of modern data engineering and architecture best practices.
- Contribute to thought leadership, internal training, and knowledge sharing across the practice.
- Drive innovation by evaluating and piloting emerging technologies, including AI-accelerated engineering.
- Own team health and assist in workforce planning by monitoring and managing key team metrics - including utilization, headcount, hiring, capability growth, and capacity against demand - to support sustainable growth and delivery excellence.
Client & Market Leadership:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, shaping data strategies and roadmaps.
- Represent Slalom in the market through speaking engagements, client workshops, and industry events.
Client Delivery Responsibilities
- Solution Architecture & Technical Oversight:
- Lead solution design and technical delivery for complex data engineering and architecture projects across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Guide teams in assessing current-state client environments and defining scalable, future-state architectures.
- Oversee the implementation of production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and workflows.
- Drive client engagement from discovery through delivery, ensuring alignment to business goals and technical excellence.
- Balance architectural leadership with hands-on involvement, stepping in to resolve technical challenges as needed.
- Collaborate closely with client stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable solutions.
- Ensure delivery excellence by setting and upholding standards for architecture, engineering, and project execution.
- Promote the use of AI-accelerated tools and automation to drive efficiency, scalability, and quality.
- Maintain a primary focus on data platforms, pipelines, and architecture, with minimal emphasis on BI/reporting.
What You'll Bring
You are a visionary leader and hands-on expert passionate about shaping and delivering next-generation data solutions. With a strong foundation in modern cloud data platforms, you thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and client engagement. You are energized by leading high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and ensuring exceptional client outcomes.
As a Director at Slalom, you will play a critical role in advancing our data engineering and architecture capabilities-enabling clients to unlock transformative value from their data. You'll bring your previous experience to make an impact in this space, including:
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related fields.
- 5+ years in technical leadership and team management roles.
- Advanced proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience in consulting or client-facing delivery environments.
- Familiarity with modern data engineering tools, languages, and paradigms (e.g., Spark, Python, dbt, Terraform, generative AI).
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
Targeted Base Pay Ranges:The targeted base salary pay range is outlined below:
Director: $189,000 - $236,000 CAD
