Director, Cloud

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.

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.

Director, Cloud Slalom is looking for a Cloud Director to join our team. Our Cloud team perform a range of activities from migrating a customers workloads to Cloud to building new secure automation environments that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world.

You will be leading all aspects of the Cloud team Australia. Success in this role requires a variety of skills such as: building and leading teams, establishing relationships within Slalom and client leaders, curiosity across Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security trends and being a key team member in initiatives.

What You Will Do You will lead all aspects of the Cloud team in Australia. Success in this role requires building and leading strong teams, fostering trusted relationships with Slalom and client leaders, and bringing deep expertise and curiosity across cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and security.

Specifically, You Will

Act as a senior delivery lead for large scale, multi-functional teams creating purpose-built platforms for our clients.

Play an engagement management role for projects and manage team performance, budgeting, and client satisfaction.

Support, mentor, and coach as People Leader of individual contributor engineers.

Be a mentor and are comfortable providing coaching and people leadership to individual contributors and leaders alike. Not just source talent but grow it within the capability.

Lead and drive sales pursuits for modern engineering projects.

Conduct technical and behavioral interviews for future Slalom team members.

Be a capability leader, comfortable running events and initiatives within Slalom, and in our go-to-market strategies.

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.

What You Will Bring

You will bring a proven track record in building and deploying highly scalable public cloud-based solutions using modern DevOps techniques.

You will also showcase your experience in all phases of product development, software development and testing lifecycles regardless of cloud platform (predominantly AWS and Azure).

You will 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.

You will lead sales pursuits and drive business operations.

Your experience in people management will enable 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.

Our Values 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.

What keeps us here? 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.

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.

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