<ul> <li>We are excited to be launching in Colombia and will have enhanced job postings with English and Spanish in 2025. </li></ul> <p>Director - Platform Engineering</p> <p>Who You'll Work With</p> <p>At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what's possible, give shape to the future-and get there.</p> <p>Within Slalom, our Build capability helps customers maximize the value of the software they create. We do this by…</p> <ul> <li>Being fast, effective, high-quality, and consistent </li><li>Evolving our software development lifecycle by blending cutting-edge AI tooling with outcome-focused strategic thinking </li><li>Delivering end-to-end to our customers at any scale and at any point in their journey. </li></ul> <p>You will be a Director to join our Americas team in the Platform Engineering (PE) discipline. Our PE engineers build the secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create the platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast, while minimizing toil.</p> <p>You'll be leading all aspects of a PE team located in one of our physical locations. A PE location team consists of up to 20+ people as a mix of people managers and individual contributor engineers, each focused on a single client's outcome. Success in this role requires a variety of skills such as: Building and leading teams in your location, establishing relationships with Slalom and client leaders, and being a key team member in initiatives.</p> <p>What You'll Do</p> <p>In PE, a Director is a steward of their capability and is responsible for development of services and capacity to deliver. Directors develop strong relationships with local markets to drive capability-specific opportunities and manage teams to ensure quality outcomes. Additionally, Directors manage multi-level reporting structures and are responsible for their capability within a single Slalom Build location. Directors are experts at delivery and fill roles ranging from dedicated senior architect to SME roles to engagement leadership and delivery excellence. Specifically, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Act as a senior delivery lead for large scale, multi-functional product teams creating purpose-built software products for our clients. </li><li>Play an engagement management role for projects and manage team performance, budgeting, and client satisfaction. </li><li>Support, mentor, and coach as People Manager leader of individual contributor engineers. </li><li>Provide additional mentorship and coaching of engineers and leaders across PE and other capabilities in your location. </li><li>Lead and drive sales pursuits for modern engineering projects. </li><li>Act as a direct line of contact for PE for other Slalom capabilities and markets. </li><li>Conduct technical and behavioral interviews for all Slalom capability recruiting. </li><li>Lead PE-wide events and initiatives. </li><li>Help grow our culture of learning by taking part in and coordinating opportunities such as presenting at technical conferences, community groups, writing blog articles, and contributing to partner-coordinated workshops </li></ul> <p>We are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment as we build the foundation and grow our team in LATAM. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently, with days that may require in-person collaboration at our office.</p> <p>What You'll Bring</p> <p>Directors in PE bring a proven track record in building and deploying highly scalable public cloud-based solutions using modern DevOps techniques. You'll showcase your experience in all phases of product development, software development and testing lifecycles regardless of cloud platform. In addition, you'll leverage experience in established technology and product departments with mature program management processes and standards for both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean) and waterfall project methodologies.</p> <p>As a Director you will lead sales pursuits and drive business operations. Your experience in people management will enable you to successfully lead a large team, recruit & retain top talent, and foster a culture of inclusiveness. Stitching together your leadership capabilities, your client presence, and business insight will ensure your success in managing large projects and programs.</p> <p>About Us</p> <p>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 organizations 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.</p> <p>#LI-JS8</p> <p>#LI-Hybrid</p>