Slalom Flex (Project Based)- AI Architect

Description and Requirements

Role Overview

• Evaluate enterprise-wide AI demand signals across business units and identify high-impact opportunities.
• Prioritize and define the first set of AI guardrails and capabilities to enable safe and scalable adoption.
• Partner with business and security leaders to align AI initiatives to strategic objectives and risk posture.

What You’ll Do

• AI Strategy & Prioritization
• Design the AI “Paved Road” operating model, including squad structure, product ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and engagement models between engineering, security, and business stakeholders.
• Define success metrics and adoption KPIs to measure effectiveness and scale.
• AI Productization
• Define AI guardrails, platforms, and agents as internal products with clear value propositions, target users, and lifecycle ownership.
• Establish standards for onboarding, usage, and compliance across all AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive consistency in tooling, patterns, and reusable components across the enterprise.
• Governance & Risk Management
• Architect governance frameworks that balance speed and control, including policies for responsible AI usage.
• Design and implement exception (“off-ramp”) models with appropriate isolation patterns and escalation paths.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure AI systems meet enterprise risk, compliance, and security standards.
• Roadmap & Execution
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases across key domains such as threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, control assurance, and identity.
• Develop and sequence a 6-month rollout roadmap with pilot teams, milestones, and decision gates.
• Recommend tooling and platform capabilities required to support enterprise AI adoption at scale.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience designing enterprise AI, data, or cloud architectures in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML platforms, LLMs, and emerging AI technologies.
• Proven ability to build operating models, governance frameworks, and product-oriented platforms.
• Experience partnering with security and risk teams on regulated or high-compliance systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to lead executive-level discussions.

Preferred Experience

• Background in cybersecurity, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture.
• Experience defining AI governance policies or responsible AI frameworks.
• Familiarity with product-based delivery models and internal platform design.

Compensation and Benefits

• Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life.
• Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and long-term disability.
• The salary pay range is $95/hr-$115/hr.
• 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.

EEO and Accommodations

• Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity 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.
• 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 if you require accommodations during the interview process.