Director of Data Engineering & Architecture - Market Solutions

Who You’ll Work With

This role builds a high-performance culture, turns business priorities into measurable results, and strengthens Slalom’s market presence through trusted relationships with industry peers, partners, and customers. You will be accountable for advancing the capability, shaping high-quality solutions, and achieving financial and customer outcomes.

Role Summary

This role builds a high-performance culture, turns business priorities into measurable results, and strengthens Slalom’s market presence through trusted relationships with industry peers, partners, and customers. You will be accountable for advancing the capability, shaping high-quality solutions, and achieving financial and customer outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Grow the Business:

  • Set the market strategy and financial goals for Data Engineering & Architecture.
  • Align investments, partnerships, go-to-market priorities, and workforce capacity with demand.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, connecting data strategy and architecture decisions to measurable business outcomes.
  • Lead outcome-based pursuits and executive client relationships.
  • Quantify value, shape differentiated solutions, and identify responsible growth opportunities through delivery.
  • Strengthen Slalom's market position through thought leadership, industry participation, partner relationships, and reusable sales enablement.

• Lead Solutions and Delivery:

  • Lead solution design and technical oversight for complex cloud data platforms, pipelines, integration, and governance across Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Maintain delivery quality from discovery through launch by managing risk, resolving challenges, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and sustainable.

• Build the Capability:

  • Develop and scale market-relevant offerings, assets, and delivery patterns.
  • Drive adoption across teams and measure their business impact.
  • Advance modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled delivery, automation, and emerging technologies, while encouraging practical experimentation.
  • Strengthen knowledge sharing and skills development across geographies, industries, and capabilities so teams can sell and deliver with consistency.

• Lead People and Culture:

  • Hire, coach, and develop a diverse, high-performing team of leaders, Data Architects, and Data Engineers.
  • Manage performance, career development, succession, staffing, utilization, and skill readiness in support of current and future business needs.

Who You are

You are a visionary market leader and hands-on data expert who is passionate about building high-performing teams, creating differentiated solutions, growing profitable business, and delivering next-generation data outcomes. You thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, commercial strategy, client relationships, and organizational leadership. You bring the judgment to balance long-term direction with practical execution and the communication skills to turn complex ideas into clear decisions and measurable value.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related fields.
• 5+ years in technical leadership and team management roles, including responsibility for developing leaders and managing performance across a people tree.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and strong knowledge of modern cloud data platform, integration, governance, reliability, and engineering patterns.
• Experience in consulting, client-facing delivery, complex solutioning, and sales pursuits, with demonstrated ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes and financial value.
• Familiarity with modern data engineering tools, languages, and paradigms such as Spark, Python, dbt, Terraform, CI/CD, DataOps, generative AI, and AI agents.
• Demonstrated ability to build and activate go-to-market strategies, sales enablement, solution portfolios, alliances, thought leadership, and external market presence.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience setting targets, evaluating investment performance, quantifying ROI, and managing capacity, utilization, and demand.
• Exceptional communication, influence, relationship management, facilitation, and change leadership skills across executives, clients, partners, and cross-functional teams.
• A record of fostering inclusive, feedback-rich, high-accountability cultures that support innovation, learning, career development, and sustainable performance.

Quantitative Expectations

• 45%+ utilization (self)
• Personal Contribution Credit (PCC): Low - $1.5M; Target - $2.5M; High - $3.5M+

About Us

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 partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

Compensation and Benefits

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 yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, the targeted base salary pay ranges are below:

• Boston, New Jersey, New York City, Washington DC, White Plains: $210,000 to $265,000
• All other locations: $200,000 to $250,000

Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com.

Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. 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. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.