Data Program Delivery Lead - Data Solution Owner (Canada)

About Slalom

Role Overview

Delivery and Solution Ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery of data products, transformation programs, and data-focused workstreams, including scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and outcomes.
• Balance business needs with technical feasibility, scalability, architectural standards, and data-informed prioritization decisions.
• Translate technical capabilities into business value while managing stakeholder expectations across scope, timelines, and resources.
• Articulate ROI, cost savings, revenue opportunities, and long-term value for client data initiatives.
• Drive client account growth through high-quality delivery outcomes and trusted relationships.

Team and Capability Leadership

• Coach and enable high-performing, self-organizing teams through Agile principles, practices, and mindset.
• Resolve impediments, support teams through complex situations, and champion effective delivery principles.
• Leverage AI, automation, and AI-powered collaboration tools to improve delivery productivity, insights, and decision-making.
• Contribute to the Slalom Data Capability through mentorship, delivery best practices, and community development.

Program Management

• Maintain project plans, timelines, resource allocation, budgets, dependencies, risks, issues, and mitigation strategies.
• Partner with solution architects to align business vision with technical implementation and co-own solution design across workstreams.
• Engage executive sponsors, business stakeholders, client technical teams, and delivery teams to advance initiatives.
• Create executive summaries and presentations covering program vision, roadmap, solution impact, and status.

Agile Delivery Practices

• Lead Agile teams by facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate prioritization across programs, projects, epics, features, and user stories and document requirements.
• Guide estimation and capacity planning using techniques such as story points and planning poker.
• Validate solutions against requirements, track Agile metrics, and maintain clear backlogs, acceptance criteria, risks, and issues.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical project management, product management, technical delivery leadership, data products, analytics platforms, data warehousing, or data transformation initiatives.
• Understanding of modern data platforms and architecture, including data lakes, data warehouses, ETL/ELT patterns, APIs, and cloud data platforms.
• Understanding of modern data stack technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, DataOps, and data mesh.
• Project experience demonstrating expertise in Agile delivery.
• Proficiency with Agile, work management, team planning, or test case management tools.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Comfort leading executive-level communications and project-level workshops.

Compensation

• Targeted base salary ranges are CAD 108,000-132,000 for Senior Consultant and CAD 130,500-159,500 for Principal in the listed Canadian markets.
• Individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
• Actual compensation depends on skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors.

Benefits

• Benefits include time off and paid holidays, parental leave, retirement savings, subsidized health, dental, and vision coverage, and disability coverage.
• Additional offerings include adoption and fertility assistance, a CAD 350 annual well-being reimbursement account, and discounted insurance options.