Slalom

Who we are:

We are seeking a versatile AWS Solutions Architect to support financial services customer in designing and delivering data-centric solutions on AWS. This role blends strategic planning with tactical execution, requiring deep technical expertise, stakeholder engagement, and architectural leadership. The internal leveling will be Senior Consultant or Principal.

What you will do:

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective data solutions using AWS services.
• Lead customer engagements to understand business needs and translate them into actionable technical designs and implementations.
• Provide hands-on development and prototyping using AWS-native tools and services.
• Guide and mentor technical teams, ensuring alignment with best practices and architectural standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, platform engineering, application development teams, information security (infosec), and release management to ensure solution delivery.
• Configure and support shared platform services to enable consistent, scalable capabilities across domains.
• Develop and promote reusable implementation patterns for adoption by development teams to accelerate delivery and ensure architectural consistency.

What you will Bring:

• Expertise in AWS data and integration services including:
• Athena, Glue, Lake Formation, Lambda, S3, SageMaker Unified Studio, Airflow, , API Gateway, SNS, SQS, VPC, IAM
• DataZone, Bedrock is a plus
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and pipeline optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and serverless design patterns
• Familiarity with Snowflake and PostgreSQL for querying and integration purposes.
• Experience with data catalogs and data lineage tools and practices to support governance and traceability.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud architecture experience, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements and drive customer success.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services and integration tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries is a plus.
• Minimum certification requirement:
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Data Engineer – Associate
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark.
• Experience with GitHub, JIRA, and Confluence for source control, issue tracking, and documentation.
• Understanding of security and compliance frameworks relevant to financial services.

About Us

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 collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Senior Consultant in Charlotte, NC is $110,000 to $171,000 and Principal base salary range is $122,000 to $189,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.