Director - Platform Engineering

Slalom cloud solutions team build systems to help our clients solve their most complex business challenges. Our diverse teams are invigorated by new challenges and aren't shy to seek out new learning opportunities or challenge the status quo. As a Director, Platform Engineering, you will design and build the secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create a platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast, while minimizing toil.

We create an inviting and diverse environment where people can unleash their full potential, create innovative projects using cutting-edge technology, and develop modern skills. Our commitment to inclusion actively promotes a broad spectrum of thoughts, opinions, and backgrounds. After launching our Slalom Auckland office in February 2023, we are continuing to grow, and here we have a Director opportunity to start a journey with Slalom_Cloud and help us shape the future.

Director, Platform Engineering

Slalom_Cloud is looking for a Director to join our team in the Platform Engineering (PE) capability. Our PE engineers build secure automation environments that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create a platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast, while minimizing toil.

You will be leading all aspects of a PE team located in Auckland, New Zealand. Success in this role requires a variety of skills such as: building and leading teams in your location, establishing relationships within Slalom and client leaders, deep expertise, passion, and curiosity across Clouds, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security trends and technologies and being a key team member in initiatives.

What will you do?

As a Director in Platform Engineering, you will be a steward of the capability and be responsible for development of services and capacity to deliver. You will develop strong relationships within local markets to drive capability-specific opportunities and manage teams to ensure quality outcomes. You will be an expert at delivery and fill roles ranging from dedicated Senior architect to SME roles to engagement leadership and delivery excellence.

Specifically, you will:

• Act as a senior delivery lead for large scale, multi-functional product teams creating purpose-built software products for our clients.
• Play an engagement management role for projects and manage team performance, budgeting, and client satisfaction.
• Support, mentor, and coach as People Manager 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.
• Be the direct line of contact for Platform Engineering for other Slalom capabilities and markets.
• Conduct technical for PE candidates, and behavioural interviews for our other capabilities.
• 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 will you 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 in New Zealand).
• 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.

Note: this role requires to be based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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 everyday, guiding our decisions.

What keeps us here?

Our New Zealand office knows the important of a good work/life balance. We have 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. It's an exciting time to be one of our foundational members, getting involved in setting up our 'Kiwi' values and culture and what makes us uniquely Slalom NZ

Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.