We are excited to be launching in Colombia and will have enhanced job postings with English and Spanish in early 2025.
Principal – Quality Engineering
Who You’ll Work With
At Slalom Build we co-create custom software, data and cloud products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We're passionate about technology, compelled by its potential as we help create the digital products, experiences, and technology-driven organizations that drive true change. We’re thrilled by the opportunity to build the future we want to see, with anyone willing to join us.
Slalom Build’s Quality Engineering capability brings a modern approach to software quality, playing a critical role in high-velocity software engineering teams. We work with current and emerging tools and techniques to help build reliable, scalable software. Our expertise in software quality principles and techniques enables key principles of whole-team ownership of quality, close proximity of software development and test activities, and reliable, scalable test automation.
Our capability is comprised of passionate, flexible technologists who love to practice and hone their craft. As tools evolve and technologies emerge, we work to stay in front of innovation in automated software development and delivery.
We work in cross-functional teams to build full-stack solutions across a range of established and emerging technologies and techniques, including:
We are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment as we build the foundation and grow our team in Colombia. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently, with days that may require in-person collaboration at our office.
What You’ll Do
As a Principal, you will bring leadership to complex project delivery and to the QE capability. You will guide Slalom teams and clients on how to shape and implement a quality strategy, tailored to a variety of project types. You will have a hand in the development and operations of the capability, and will be seen as a dedicated people leader, mentor, and coach. As an emerging thought leader, you will frequently share new ideas and points of view on the craft of quality engineering and contribute to capability initiatives. You will contribute to hiring and the growth of our capability. You will be active in your Build Center’s culture and community.
Specifically, you will:
What You’ll Bring
As a Principal in the Quality Engineering capability, you apply domain expertise to shape and deliver solutions to client challenges. You leverage your consulting skills and a breadth of delivery experience to collaborate closely with peers in other capabilities and lead teams to deliver high quality software.
Your expertise and experience allow you to contribute as a leader to solution architecture, deployment pipelines, and modern software quality approaches that delight our clients. You bring a dynamic set of technical skills that allow you to advise clients, architect and implement code-based solutions, and lead teams.
Your communication skills equip you to successfully manage client relationships, adapt to change, and solve problems effectively. You are considerate and efficient in the use of communication channels to interact across teams and our capability. You seek support from your peers and leaders when needed to work through challenging scenarios.
Your organizational skills allow you to context-switch between a wide range of responsibilities. You balance your time between client work, people leadership, and capability-specific initiatives. You value teamwork, and you show up reliably to accomplish tasks or achieve outcomes with your peers and leadership team.
You leverage your learning mindset to quickly expand and deepen your technical delivery and leadership skills. You form meaningful connections with your peers and leaders who can support your growth.
A computer science-based mindset is needed; a technology-based education is helpful.
About Us
Slalom Build is a highly scalable, high-velocity Build as a Service firm. We work with clients in a flexible, collaborative, and repeatable methodology to create custom technology solutions for their most impactful initiatives and to accelerate their digital transformation journey. Over 1500 Builders strong, distributed across the globe, our innovation hubs attract the type of people who contribute to thriving teams. By placing builders in close proximity to clients – as well as their cultural and technology cohorts – we can assure the quality, versatility, and speed that product delivery demands, along with the elasticity and scale to tailor to individual client needs.
Slalom Build leverages a foundation of innovation inherited from Slalom, a Seattle based firm that set out in 2001 to disrupt and redefine management consulting. Now 13,000+ professionals strong around the globe, Slalom is deeply engaged with some of the world’s most influential, change-making enterprises. Learn more at slalombuild.com or slalom.com
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