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About Us - Slalom
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In eight countries and 53 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 700 leading technology providers, our 10,000+ strong team helps people and organisations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.
Microsoft Cloud Architect – Principal
London or Manchester | Hybrid
About Us - Slalom
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In eight countries and 53 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 700 leading technology providers, our 10,000+ strong team helps people and organisations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.
We’re honoured to be consistently recognised as a great place to work—named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For from 2016 to 2024, and featured on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list from 2016 to 2023. We’ve also been recognised across the UK and Europe for wellbeing, inclusion, and consulting excellence.
Since opening our doors in London in 2014, and then the launch of our Manchester office in 2019, it’s been an unforgettable journey. What’s more, we’re at an exciting stage of our growth in the UK—and now Ireland—with our Dublin office now well established and growing rapidly. We’re looking for great people who want to be part of that adventure. Our employees are at the heart of delivering impactful and meaningful work for our clients and helping them to reach for and realise their vision.
Slalom's Data Capability
At Slalom, we believe that through our trusted relationships with our clients, we can create modern data solutions that drive results and improve the world. Interested in Strategy? Have a passion for Architecture? Want to work in a team that is pushing the forefront of the latest technology in the Engineering and AI space? We can offer you this. Slalom is agnostic when it comes to the technology we work with and we support clients in a range of data cloud partnerships including: AWS, Azure, Snowflake and Databricks to name but a few. We are interested in individuals who are passionate and curious about what is next.
Microsoft Cloud Architect
Slalom is seeking an experienced Data Architect to contribute to its growing Data & Technology practice. The ideal candidate is a professional with experience in designing, developing, validating, and communicating enterprise data solutions using Azure and Fabric or Databricks. Deep experience in developing enterprise data management strategies, including data lake/warehouse implementations, data movement, data services, data acquisition, data transformation, and archive/recovery.
What will you do?
- Lead as a hands-on architect on Azure, Fabric and Databricks implementations
- Research, analyse, recommend, and select technical approaches for solving challenging development and integration problems for clients
- Explore emerging technology vendors and recommend/advise clients on reference architectures
- Design and develop scalable Databricks solutions on both Azure and AWS environments
- Lead the architecture and deployment of data solutions using Databricks and Fabric
Requirements:
- Expert in capturing end-user requirements and aligning technical solutions to the business objectives
- Experience in leading, designing, and implementing Cloud Data strategies, including designing multi-phased implementation roadmaps
- Significant experience (and ideally certified) in Azure and acted as lead data architect on at least two Azure implementations
- Experience with Databricks architecture and development on Azure and AWS platforms
- Expertise in data architecture concepts such as dimensional modelling, data vault, data mesh
- Understanding of data management and governance concepts such as data quality, metadata management, etc.
- Experience in designing data engineering solutions using open source and proprietary cloud data pipeline tools
- Strong hand-on experience with Databricks or Fabric. Ability to implement data processing and transformation pipelines in Databricks or Fabric
- Experience in leading data platform development teams
- Knowledge of data science and visualization
- Ideally will have Azure Certification aligned with Data Engineering or Analytics
- Familiarity with integrating Databricks or Fabric with other cloud services and optimizing performance across different cloud environments
We have a question for you - and it’s something we’re really passionate about. Can you imagine a world in which you can truly love your life and your work? Well, we have some good news – creating that world and making this vision a reality is what we get out of bed for; it’s our north star.
But what do we really mean when we talk about loving your life and your work? Let’s take a look at the ways in which we help our team members to achieve this – and the ‘how’.
Deep connections, better outcome
We have deep relationships with over 400 leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients’ problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. What’s more, we’re there to work side-by-side with our client teams to enable them for success long after we’ve gone. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.
Flexibility
Life is busy and we appreciate that. We’re often juggling work, family, and personal commitments. We do everything we can to support our people in prioritising what matters to them while also working on high-impact projects that they’ll love.
People-first
Great solutions start with great people. And those great people are at their best when they’re empowered to be their true authentic selves. Through leading with kindness and empathy, and striving for equity, we’re able to create better experiences for our people and our clients. Our culture is central to everything we do - encouraging passion and adventure, adaptiveness, and diversity of thought. Inclusion, diversity and equity is at the top of our agenda, we have created a community where we empower our team to be the best version of themselves.
Rewards
There’s no shying away from it - the compensation and benefits on offer have to be competitive too, right? We know that. That’s why we have a dedicated team working with our leaders to ensure our packages are fair, competitive, and rewarding!
Take a look at the role above and if something sparks your interest, apply!
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