Enterprise Architect

Who You’ll Work With

Slalom is seeking an Enterprise Architect who can bring the art of the possible to life across large, complex client programs. This person combines broad technology depth, strong business judgment, and a practical delivery mindset to help clients turn ambitious outcomes into coherent, executable solutions. 

The Enterprise Architect will work across a portfolio of Salesforce, integration, cloud, data, and enterprise applications—not just a single platform—to define a clear technical direction and help teams deliver it. They will be equally credible with executives, product and business leaders, architects, and delivery teams. This is a hands-on consulting role: the architect organizes the right people, resolves difficult tradeoffs, advances sales and delivery, and produces tangible work products that move a program forward. 

In addition to expanding and developing Slalom's Enterprise Architecture capability, this role owns technical visions, target-state architectures, and roadmaps for strategic programs and pursuits. Architecture governance is used as a practical means to accelerate sound decisions and delivery—not as a detached governance function. 

What You’ll Do

• Partner with client executives, business leaders, and delivery teams to understand desired outcomes, business processes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, constraints, and measures of success. 
• Translate those needs into practical, enterprise-level solution strategies and target-state architectures spanning business, application, integration, data, technology, security, and operating-model considerations. 
• Shape integrated solution portfolios that may include Salesforce core platform capabilities; Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Data Cloud, and related products; MuleSoft and API-led integration; hyperscaler services on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake; ERP and other enterprise applications. 
• Lead collaborative architecture, discovery, and design sessions that align business, functional, technical, data, security, and operational stakeholders around a feasible path forward. 
• Produce and maintain clear architecture artifacts—including solution visions, capability maps, system context and integration designs, data flows, non-functional requirements, decision records, roadmaps, and phased delivery approaches—that enable teams to act. 
• Assess current-state landscapes, identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and recommend sequenced improvements that balance business value, delivery speed, cost, resilience, security, and maintainability. 
• Guide the technical strategy and integrated delivery of large, multi-workstream programs, including custom development, package configuration, integration, data migration, platform engineering, environment and release management, and change adoption dependencies. 
• Establish lightweight, fit-for-purpose architecture guardrails and design reviews that improve quality, consistency, and reuse while keeping teams moving quickly. 
• Work with account, pursuit, and delivery leaders to shape opportunities, estimate technical work, define delivery approaches, communicate tradeoffs, and build client confidence from early sales through program execution. 
• Lead and mentor solution architects, technical architects, engineers, and cross-functional teams; create alignment across workstreams and resolve complex decisions before they become delivery blockers. 
• Contribute to the growth of Slalom's Enterprise Architecture capability through reusable methods, points of view, accelerators, community building, mentoring, and active knowledge sharing. 
• Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in solution, technical, enterprise, or domain architecture roles, including significant experience leading complex technology programs or transformations in a consulting or client-facing environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, multi-workstream programs from shaping through delivery—connecting business outcomes to a portfolio of technical solutions and coordinating teams across platforms, vendors, and organizational boundaries. 
• Deep Salesforce platform experience, including core CRM capabilities and multiple clouds such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Data Cloud, or comparable Salesforce products; able to determine when Salesforce is the right answer and how it should fit within a broader enterprise landscape. 
• Strong integration architecture experience, including MuleSoft or comparable integration platforms, APIs, event-driven patterns, data synchronization, security, error handling, and operational support considerations. 
• Working depth in one or more hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), and familiarity with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or comparable technologies. 
• Experience integrating CRM and digital platforms with ERP, customer data, analytics, identity, commerce, marketing, legacy, and other enterprise systems. 
• Strong command of architectural and delivery concerns including data architecture, security, privacy, identity and access management, scalability, performance, availability, resilience, observability, environment strategy, release management, CI/CD, and operational readiness. 
• Ability to quickly organize cross-functional teams and convert ambiguity into decisions, plans, and work products. Comfortable applying architecture methods pragmatically; values outcomes, clarity, and delivery momentum over rigid framework adherence. 
• Proven consultative and communication skills: able to facilitate executive conversations, explain complex tradeoffs in clear business language, build trust, and tailor materials to the audience. 
• Experience leading technical teams and design reviews, coaching architects and engineers, and raising the quality and consistency of solution delivery. 
• Relevant Salesforce, cloud, integration, data, or architecture certifications are valued. Equivalent experience and demonstrated expertise will be considered. 
• Able to travel up to 50%, based on client and business needs. 

What Success Looks Like

• Clients have a clear, credible path from business ambition to an integrated technical solution and a phased delivery plan. 
• Sales and delivery teams make faster, better-informed decisions because architecture is understandable, actionable, and grounded in real program constraints. 
• Solutions across Salesforce, cloud, data, integration, and enterprise applications work together as a coherent portfolio—not a collection of disconnected platform decisions. 
• Teams are aligned, delivery risks are surfaced early, and governance enables momentum without becoming bureaucracy. 
• Slalom's Enterprise Architecture capability becomes more repeatable, more connected to client outcomes, and stronger through the architect's leadership and mentoring. 

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: 

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: 

East Bay, San Francisco, Silicon Valley:

• Senior Principal: $222,000–$271,000
• Director: $260,000–$317,000

San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle, Boston, Houston, New Jersey, New York City, Washington DC, Westchester:

• Senior Principal: $203,500–$248,500
• Director: $238,000–$291,000

All other locations:

• Senior Principal: $186,500–$228,000
• Director: $218,000–$267,000

 In 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 September 18, 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.