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Architect – Solution Owner Product and delivery leader who works with clients to shape the right solutions, directs teams on how to deliver them, and stays accountable for outcomes, performance, and business value. Who You’ll Work With Slalom’s Solution Owners are hands-on technology, AI, and Agile delivery experts dedicated to their projects and clients. Our job is to make sure our clients build the right thing at the right time — and then build it right. AI tools, agents, and workflows are embedded into our delivery practices — accelerating discovery, documentation, analysis, backlog management, and team alignment. We are passionate, adaptive experts who continually practice and hone our craft. What You’ll Do As an Architect-level Solution Owner, you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, architects, designers, and data specialists inside high-velocity delivery pods, and partner directly with client product owners and technology leaders to translate business intent into clear product direction, lead Agile delivery teams as they adopt AI-enabled ways of working, and keep strategy, scope, delivery health, and value connected from concept through launch and iteration. Core responsibilities include: • Defining and managing project governance including cadence, Agile events, and delivery reporting that surfaces the data clients need to decide. • Partnering with Product Owners to define the product, pressure-test assumptions, and produce clear specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria tied to OKRs — reframing conversations from solutions to outcomes when needed. • Owning the product lifecycle from concept through launch and beyond — collecting feedback, measuring impact, and planning the next iteration. • Maintaining the project’s context hub — a shared source of truth across strategy, decisions, requirements, risks, and technical context — and using AI tooling (e.g., MCPs, agents) to keep it current and accessible. • Leading delivery teams through managing issues and risks, facilitating meetings, and providing clear project status updates. • Collaborating with engineering leaders, validating the technical approach, strategy, and deliverables, and documenting the toolchain the team relies on. • Applying and adapting prompts, templates, and repeatable AI workflows that support requirements, documentation, analysis, and backlog management. • Testing ideas through lightweight prototypes and using feedback to sharpen product direction. What You’ll Bring You are a curious problem solver and bring several years of product development experience as a Product, Project, or Program Manager using Agile methodologies, and applying AI where it strengthens the software and testing lifecycle. You demonstrate: • Skill in turning ideas and conversations into clear specifications, backlogs, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for iterative development. • Ability to bridge business and technical teams, with working awareness of repositories, version control, and delivery toolchains. • Strong investigative, analytical, and communication skills — including using AI where it accelerates research, validates findings, and sharpens actionable insights. • Knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean, and the ability to adapt the framework to project needs. • Strong delivery acumen, risk identification and mitigation skills, in complex or ambiguous environments. • Practical exposure to AI in a delivery setting, and a commitment to deepening that capability as the tooling and our practice evolve. • Familiarity with DevOps practices — CI/CD, automated testing, and release management — and how they shape delivery cadence and planning. • A technology-oriented mindset and comfort with modern developer tooling. A technical degree, software delivery background, or equivalent experience is helpful. 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 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.    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 Architect is $133,000 to $163,000. I n 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 will accept applicants until Monday, November 16, or until the position is filled. 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 . Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.   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.

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Architect – Solution Owner
Product and delivery leader who works with clients to shape the right solutions, directs teams on how to deliver them, and stays accountable for outcomes, performance, and business value.
Who You’ll Work With
What You’ll Do
Defining and managing project governance including cadence, Agile events, and delivery reporting that surfaces the data clients need to decide.
Owning the product lifecycle from concept through launch and beyond — collecting feedback, measuring impact, and planning the next iteration.
Maintaining the project’s context hub — a shared source of truth across strategy, decisions, requirements, risks, and technical context — and using AI tooling (e.g., MCPs, agents) to keep it current and accessible.
Leading delivery teams through managing issues and risks, facilitating meetings, and providing clear project status updates.
Collaborating with engineering leaders, validating the technical approach, strategy, and deliverables, and documenting the toolchain the team relies on.
Applying and adapting prompts, templates, and repeatable AI workflows that support requirements, documentation, analysis, and backlog management.
Testing ideas through lightweight prototypes and using feedback to sharpen product direction.
What You’ll Bring
Skill in turning ideas and conversations into clear specifications, backlogs, acceptance criteria, and success metrics for iterative development.
Ability to bridge business and technical teams, with working awareness of repositories, version control, and delivery toolchains.
Strong investigative, analytical, and communication skills — including using AI where it accelerates research, validates findings, and sharpens actionable insights.
Knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, and Lean, and the ability to adapt the framework to project needs.
Strong delivery acumen, risk identification and mitigation skills, in complex or ambiguous environments.
Practical exposure to AI in a delivery setting, and a commitment to deepening that capability as the tooling and our practice evolve.
Familiarity with DevOps practices — CI/CD, automated testing, and release management — and how they shape delivery cadence and planning.
A technology-oriented mindset and comfort with modern developer tooling. A technical degree, software delivery background, or equivalent experience is helpful.

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