Director, Cloud Platform

Job Description

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.

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What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That's why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

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Slalom is looking for a Cloud Director to join our team. Our Cloud team performs a range of activities from delivering agentic solutions to migrating a customer's workloads to Cloud or building secure Cloud platforms that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world.

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What you will do

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• Act as a senior delivery lead for large scale, multi-functional teams creating purpose-built platforms for our clients.
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• Play an engagement management role for projects and manage team performance, budgeting, and client satisfaction.
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• Support, mentor, and coach as a People Leader of individual contributor engineers.
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• Support sales pursuits for modern engineering projects.
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• Lead Cloud Delivery projects showcasing your technical and consulting skills.
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• Conduct technical and behavioral interviews for future Slalom team members.
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• Be a capability leader, comfortable running events and initiatives within Slalom, and in our go-to-market strategies.
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• 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.
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• Continually develop your skills as the industry evolves and support the ongoing learning of the team.
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• Lead delivery team skills as we continue to evolve our AI engineering practices and tools.
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What you will bring

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• A proven track record in building and deploying highly scalable public cloud‐based solutions using modern AI Engineering and DevSecOps techniques.
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• Experience in all phases of product development, software development and testing lifecycles, regardless of cloud platform.
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• Leverage experience in established technology and product departments with mature program management processes and standards for both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean) and waterfall project methodologies.
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• Support sales pursuits and drive business operations.
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• People‐management experience that enables you to successfully lead a large team, recruit and 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.
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Our values

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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.

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What keeps us here?

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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.

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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.