Slalom is seeking a Director to grow and ensure the success of their Machine Learning practice in North America, focusing on delivering innovative Machine Learning solutions as part of intelligent products on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Requirements
- Experience acting as a project manager and leading technical project delivery teams
- Experience with implementing ML solutions with two, or more, cloud frameworks (e.g., AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML Studio, Google Cloud Vertex AI)
- Experience implementing machine learning models in production
- Experience developing models and other data science work utilizing Python
- Familiarity, or strong desire to work with and gain an understanding of Generative AI, such as working with foundation models (GPT-3/4, Gemini, Mixtral, Llama, etc.)
- Experience with building computer vision models - Preferred
- Experience with designing and engineering MLOps pipelines or CI/CD implementations
Responsibilities
- Recommend and implement architecture to deploy machine learning pipelines and CI/CD processes at scale for some of our most challenging engagements
- Collaborate with Product Owners to apply Slalom’s Agile processes and be responsible for the initiation, delivery, and transition of projects for your team in a client-facing role
- Support pre-sales conversations with client’s most technical Machine Learning staff
- Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across the Slalom organization and our clients to discuss their project needs
- Ensure the delivery of successful outcomes for staffed teams
- Staff, lead, and mentor machine learning practitioners and engineers
- Share learnings and project findings with the wider Slalom Machine Learning Community
Other
- Must be able to speak articulately, support teams and communicate with clients on the following topics
- Willingness to travel up to 50%, at peak times
- Demonstrated professional growth and the proven ability to work cross-functionally
- Shown history of leveraging and growing existing client base; organic business development responsibilities, i.e. growing new account/clients from the ground up
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to audiences of all levels including client facing skills
