Cloud Architect

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Job Title: Cloud Architect, Technology Enablement

Location: Western Canada (Vancouver & Calgary)

Who You’ll Work With

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. We redefine what’s possible and create what’s next.

As a modern technology company, Slalom is bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have a passion for building strategies, solutions and creative products to help companies solve their most complex and interesting business problems. Our mission is to enable our consultants and our clients to love their future, both in work and in life – it’s one we’re excited to champion on a daily basis here at Slalom.

Our culture and values are dedicated to encouraging an environment where every individual can thrive and contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions. In the words of our CEO, Brad Jackson - we will never put profit over people!

We build deep relationships with our clients in over 39 markets around the world, while sharing insights across markets to bring the full breadth of Slalom’s expertise to every engagement. Our regional Build Centers are hubs for innovation, attracting top talent to rapidly co-create the technology products of tomorrow. We also nurture strong partnerships with over 300 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Tableau.

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 9,000 employees. We have been named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and are regularly recognized by our employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the technical approach for Cloud capabilities and provide oversight across multiple projects, working directly with both client and Slalom teams
• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
• Provide technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams
• Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and meaningful development and integration problems
• Keep up to date on and apply new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, and scalability
• SME to drive all aspects of business development pursuit deliverables (proposals, SOWs)
• Help grow our practice by crafting solution offerings, developing thought leadership in the Cloud community, and leading teams
• Mentor other Slalom team members and new hires
  

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of cloud solution architect experience within a consulting environment
• Hands on public cloud configuration and application migration experience (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google).
• Hands on experience with public cloud migration tools and services.
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM)
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation experience
• Experience building web-based applications using Java, Python, C# etc.
• Proven knowledge of software architectures for performance, scalability and high availability – experience developing and deploying software products is a very strong asset
• Ability to communicate with clients on a business level and translate their needs into a technical solution
• Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
• Demonstrated growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability
• Experience enhancing production applications or workloads in a cloud-based environment
  

Good To Have

• Containerization experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Database knowledge (e.g. SQL/NoSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL)
  

Slalom is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will work to reasonably accommodate applicants’ needs throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

Please note if you are hired at Slalom you will be required to complete a background check.