Senior Principal

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.

Senior Principal - Software Engineering
Slalom Build capability is Slalom's technology powerhouse, dedicated to Engineering and Experience Design. It's an inclusive space where people grow, innovate, and work with cutting-edge technologies and modern development practices. We embrace diversity of thought and background, fostering a culture that values creativity and collaboration. As a trusted partner, Slalom Build helps clients maximise the value of their software by delivering fast, high-quality, and consistent solutions. We combine strategic thinking with AI-driven tools to support end-to-end delivery at any scale. Our focus is not only on building great solutions, but also on empowering people and creating lasting impact.

What You Will Do

• Partner with clients, assess their business challenges and provide guidance and insight to ensure a best-fit technology solution is determined.
• Grow a group of Engineers: connecting regularly to provide professional development, career guidance, and development opportunities.
• You will work with local markets to drive capability-specific opportunities and manage teams to deliver outcomes for our clients.
• Act as the capability lead as aligned to individual markets helping market leaders understand slalom's build strategy while providing pursuit support.
• Co-lead discovery and delivery project phases alongside other capability leaders.
• Collaborate with delivery managers and other capabilities to right-size the work effort required for a solution.
• Work with our highly skilled Slalom teams to design and develop state-of-the-art outcomes.
• Design, document, and develop outstanding, modern applications using the full spectrum of technologies and design patterns.
• Assist with estimating work efforts required for each phase of a project.
• Work on POC projects with cutting-edge technologies.

What You Will Bring

• Significant breadth and depth in architecture, development, and implementation of software products.
• You have an acute understanding of the needs of client business and technology leaders and able to help them articulate their needs in order to best formulate a pursuit plan.
• You are able to tune your collaboration style adapting to clients and team members who have different ways of working together.
• Recent hands-on experience using modern programming languages. Ideally, you'll have worked with any of JavaScript, React, Python, Java, NodeJS, Go or Spring.
• Experience leading development teams through everyday project tasks and collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
• Skilled in cloud architecture including Amazon Web Services (AWS)/ Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• An in-depth understanding of, and experience with, Agile project management methodologies.
• A strong background in relational databases, such as SQL Server/ DB2/ Oracle/ MySQL/ PostgreSQL.
• Practical knowledge and understanding of RESTful service design.

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.