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Slalom Build is a welcoming and inclusive space for people to build their fullest potential. We make cool stuff, with the latest technology, and modern skill-expanding techniques. We encourage inclusion and actively incite a wider divergence of thought, opinion, and background. Slalom Build is a loyal partner for our clients—and the greatest advocate for the future of our people.
Senior Architect – Platform Engineering
Slalom Build is looking for a Senior Architect to join our Australian team in the Platform Engineering (PE) capability. Our PE architects 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 the platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast, while minimizing toil.
You'll be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there. You'll build in AWS using a wide variety of tools across the DevOps landscape. You name it, we work on it. And so can you.
What You'll Do
In PE, a Senior Architect drives the automation and DevOps strategy, architecture, and implementation of a project solution. Your role is to provide technical expertise in your field with the consultative mindset to drive client discussions from requirements through to development. Specifically, you will:
Act as a hands-on, technical lead for multi-functional product teams creating purpose-built software products for our clients.Lead an initial engagement discovery for a project and remain accountable and responsible for the design and delivery of a modern Platform Engineering solution.Provide domain expertise in DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods, and cultural practices within Slalom Build as well as with our clients.Lead work effort estimation and story pointing across capabilities to align to user and business goals at each phase of an Agile project.Develop project/technology case studies, training materials, and technical guidance for Slalom project teams.Participate in internal Slalom events or initiatives.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'll Bring
Senior Architects in PE bring experience as an architect across software engineering and DevOps in production using AWS. We will tap into your knowledge of designing and implementing end-to-end continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines as well as your experience in configuration management and infrastructure as code (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.) Security is part of everything we do and will require your knowledge of fundamental cloud security (e.g., identity and access management, firewalls, etc.) as we build for our customers.
As a Senior Architect you will lead and collaborate across multiple functional and/or technical teams to deliver an Agile-based project. You will be leveraging your growth mentality, bringing enthusiasm about learning new technologies quickly, and applying your gained knowledge to address practical business problems for your customer. Showing your ability to lead conversations with clients on a business level and translate their needs into technical solutions will be what maximizes velocity for the team.
Please note that this role requires being based in Canberra, holding Australian Citizenship. Our Values
Our culture and values reflect each individual Builder. 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?
There's work - life and life- life. And we think it's time they got together for good. Calibrated to your needs and to your life, we want every builder to be happy, healthy, supported, and inspired. Every day. For this reason, we offer health and well-being, learning and growth, and tech perks (to name a few). We also provide a welcoming place to connect and share experiences and perspectives through our Employee Resource Groups. So that every builder feels safe to be themselves everywhere.
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr