Director - Data Engineering

Who You'll Work With

At Slalom we co-create custom software, data and cloud products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We're passionate about technology, compelled by its potential as we help create the digital products, experiences, and technology-driven organizations that drive true change. We're thrilled by the opportunity to build the future we want to see, with anyone willing to join us.

Slalom Florida's Data Engineering capability is focused on injecting intelligence into products, engineering systems that support learning and insight and creating innovative data products. Within Data Engineering we help customers build world-class products through effective use of:

• Data Engineering consisting of streaming / real-time data solutions, modern data platforms, and data systems within products (e.g, database systems, graph databases, key-value stores, document databases and transactional systems)
• Data visualization
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence

What You'll Do

Slalom Florida's Data Engineering capability is comprised of passionate, flexible technologists who love to practice and hone their craft. As tools evolve and technologies emerge, we work to stay in front of innovations in data platform development and delivery working with some of the most forward-thinking organizations in data and analytics.

As a Director for Slalom Florida, 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 helps our clients create value, maximize 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'll 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 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, but not limited to:

• 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)
• Experience managing teams

About Us

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 44 markets around the world, Slalom'steams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed byregional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 9,000 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and is regularly recognized byemployees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.