Sr. Principal- Azure Practice Lead

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Slalom in Canada began in 2015 and has grown to over 500 employees across 3 markets – Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal.

Job Title: Azure Practice Lead

Who You’ll Work With

As a modernized technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have passion for building strategies, solutions and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds and emerging technologies.

Slalom is seeking an Azure Practice Lead to join our growing Data & Analytics team in Toronto. We’re looking for individuals who can advise our clients on how to best leverage the latest advances in Azure cloud technology and to transform their business with modern technology practices.

You will be responsible for people (team development, employee engagement, and coaching) and operational/financial health, capability strategy/planning, opportunity development, and solution delivery. If you are invigorated by new challenges and learning opportunities, then we believe Slalom is the place for you!

What You’ll Do

• Advise clients on leading cloud practices and architectural approaches
• Ability to apply and communicate data engineering and analytics principles for our clients
• Architect cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the client’s needs
• Perform assessments based on Microsoft Azure cloud solutions
• Ability to build strong client relationships through trust, communication, and quality delivery
• Mentor and coach junior team members
• Stay current with the latest cloud services, methods, and trends
• Join the sales pursuit, to identify the technical scope and contribute to developing the Statement of Work (SOW) and POC
  

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of technology consulting and/or relevant industry experience
• Cloud architecture and implementation experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience leading pre-sales activities and Request for Proposals (RFPs)
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Azure products such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Purview
• Understanding of distributed systems and architecture design trade-offs
• Proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, and relational database design and development
• Hands-on development experience using and migrating data to cloud platforms
• Lead analysis, architecture, design, and development of data warehouse and business intelligence solutions
• Research, analyze, recommend, and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Passionate about learning new technologies
  

What keeps us here?

• Culture! Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We believe in having a diverse and inclusive community of Slalomer’s, encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, every day. We believe in staying humble and curious, while still inspiring passion and adventure!
• Just because we work hard doesn’t mean we don’t have fun! Slalom strives to bring our teams together and ensure we have just as much fun as we do work. Slalom loves to bring their employees together by hosting many events such as quarterly events, holiday parties, charity events and more casually, in-office/virtual events like lunch & learns, trivia and movie nights, hackathons and many more!
  

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