Director - Data 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, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organisations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Director - Data Engineering

The purpose of our Data practice at Slalom is to build a better future with Data. Through trusted partnerships with our clients, we co-create modern data solutions that drive results and improve the world. We are continuing to grow our practice whilst keeping Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness at the forefront, and hiring individuals who share a similar passion for data, technology, and culture. Joining our team will allow you to partner with our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of ML and analytics. We blend design, engineering, and expertise to help them build the future.

What You Will Do

As a Director, you will leverage your expertise and collaboration skills to work with like-minded leaders within Slalom and our client community to effectively apply Slalom's offerings and capabilities as well as alliance partners' platforms to provide advice, expertise, and skills that help our clients create value, maximise growth, and/or improve business performance.

You will lead engagements around the design and delivery of innovative solutions on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using core cloud data warehouse tools, distributed processing engines, event streaming platforms, and other modern data technologies. This includes being accountable for leading teams in the analysis, architecture, design, and development of cloud data warehouse and analytics solutions, including defining the cloud data strategy and multi-phased implementation roadmap for your clients.

You will partner with your local market business development team on pre-sales activities, including meeting with prospective clients to discuss their needs, shaping those needs into a team-based delivery project, and helping estimate and plan the engagement.

You will be expected to actively contribute to the cloud and big data community at Slalom and drive new capabilities forward.

What You Will Bring

As a Director in the Data Engineering capability, you will bring an entrepreneurial and progressive mindset to lead the growth and success of our practice. You are a self-starter, effective in breaking down large problems into smaller ones, and eager to regularly share what you learn with others within your projects and in the broader Slalom Build community. Your thirst for knowledge and passion for fearless experimentation in new and interesting ways to meet our clients' most pressing data challenges will inspire those around you. You are skilled at leading and growing direct reports.

You will have an insatiable need to become the best at what you do, with a relentless drive to bring value to your customers as they implement data platforms, migrate data to cloud platforms, and leverage programming languages across a range of technologies, including:

• Big Data Platforms (Apache Spark, Presto, Amazon EMR)
• Cloud Data Warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery)
• Object-Oriented Coding (Java, Python)
• NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, MongoDB)
• Container Management Systems (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS)
• Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (Amazon Sagemaker, Azure ML Studio)
• Streaming Data Ingestion and Analytics (Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka)
• Visual Analytics (Tableau, PowerBI)
• Modern Data Workflows (Apache Airflow, dbt, Dagster).

Our Values

Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.

What keeps us here?

When we moved to Australia in 2020, we had no idea just how important our work/life balance would need to be. We've asked our consultants what makes Slalom a great place to work and the most common answer – "the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way". We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances, and investment in our team's professional, technical, and personal growth.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Slalom does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.