Overview

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In over 30 markets across the US, UK, Japan, Australia, and Canada, our teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what’s right, always. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world’s top technology providers.

At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. We build deep relationships with our clients within our markets and across the globe while sharing insights across markets to bring the full breadth of Slalom’s expertise to every engagement. Our seven 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 200 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

With our purpose-driven mindset, we partner with companies to push the boundaries of what’s possible—together. Here at Slalom, we are motivated every day by our company’s core values and vision. Our core values are at the heart of everything we do and guide how we work with our clients, our teams, and our communities. Each core value reminds us to stay true to ourselves while driving amazing outcomes for our clients. Our guiding principle is to “Love your Future” which inspires our culture, work, and relationships, and most importantly it is how we make our biggest impact!

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 10,000 employees. We were named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2020 for the 5th year in a row and are regularly recognized by our employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.

Slalom in Canada began in 2015 and has grown to over 600 employees across 3 markets – Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal.

 Job Title: Artificial Intelligence Capability Lead

Who You’ll Work With

As a modernized technology company, we’ve never met a technical challenge we didn’t like. We enable our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of new technologies. We blend design, engineering, and analytics expertise to build the future. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges,

innovative minds and emerging technologies. Slalom is looking for a Principal/Senior Principal to join its growing data science team as an AI Capability Lead. This leadership role has responsibilities split between engagement delivery, business development, and people management.

 What You’ll Do

  • Act as a senior client advisor in advanced analytics and data engineering as a subject matter exporter through delivery excellence
  • Lead development and execution of highly complex data platforms that support advanced analytics applications
  • Gather technical and business requirements, design architecture, and technical solution approaches
  • Work closely with project teams to build predictive models for a wide variety of applications – forecasting, NLP/NLU, optimization, and simulation
  • Create practice collateral, including go-to-market offerings, marketing materials, and thought leadership
  • Manage highly complex analytical projects from data discovery to data platform builds, to model building, performance evaluation, and testing
  • Take ownership of and drive key architecture decisions around the ML lifecycle (build, test, deploy, monitor)
  • Partner with account teams to qualify sales opportunities, write proposals and statements of work

What You’ll Bring

  • MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field
  • Experience deploying multiple ML pipelines in production systems for a wide variety of ML use cases
  • Knowledge and understanding of data platforms, EDWs, data lakes, MLOps and AI ethics
  • Ability to communicate with clients on a business level and translate their needs into a technical solution
  • Experience in the technology space and building partnerships with technology providers (e.g. cloud providers)
  • Understanding of best practices and standards of software development
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including data engineers and data scientists to deliver end-to-end solutions
  • Experience in technical pre-sales, managing teams– putting people first, and managing business operations
  • Strong organization, communication, teamwork, presentation, problem-solving and time management skills

Tools You’ve Worked With May Include

  • Data sources and structures: APIs, SQL, NoSQL, RDBMS, Hadoop
  • Deep understanding of statistical modelling as well as ETL, data ingestion/cleaning and engineering skills
  • Experience and understanding of machine learning techniques: k-NN, naive Bayes, decision trees, SVM, etc.
  • Experience designing and implementing end-to-end
  • ML Ops solutions: Kubeflow, MLflow, etc.
  • Experience with various languages: R, SAS, Python, Scala, and/or Java/C#
  • Experience with various big data technologies in one or more ecosystems: AWS, Microsoft/Azure, Google Cloud

 

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.