AI Quality Architect
Slalom, LLC

Description and Requirements

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

At Slalom, we co-create custom software, data and cloud products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. Slalom's Quality Engineering (QE) discipline brings a modern approach to software quality, playing a critical role in high-velocity software engineering teams. We work with current and emerging tools and techniques, including AI-assisted ones, built on whole-team ownership of quality and reliable, scalable test automation.

We work in cross-functional teams to build full-stack solutions across web and mobile front ends, APIs and microservices, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), data and AI products including LLM-powered features, and automated build and deployment pipelines.

This is a hybrid role with flexibility to balance independent work and in-person collaboration.



What You'll Do

As an Architect, you will bring depth of experience in software quality to a collaborative team. You will act as a champion of quality who influences architecture, flex between hands-on work and technical leadership, and serve as a trusted advisor to your team and clients. Specifically, you will:

• Lead the team in defining test strategies for multi-layered applications, including AI-enabled components
• Take part in solution architecture discussions and identify test framework needs
• Define robust test automation architecture, plan, design, and build frameworks, evolve open-source frameworks, and create trusted, reliable test automation
• Define and drive in-sprint and post-sprint quality activities, and guide the team on testability, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and the definition of done
• Coach team members and help them unblock tasks and drive to resolution
• Advise client and delivery leaders on quality strategy, risk, and trade-offs; influence architecture and delivery decisions; and contribute to Discovery, proposals, and estimates
• Where AI adds value, define where AI-assisted tools fit in the quality approach, set safeguards and review checkpoints, and design evaluation strategies for AI-powered features
• Share what you learn with your teams and the broader QE community

What You'll Bring

• You bring experience and confidence in Agile team environments and act as a velocity multiplier. You are highly proficient in using code to build reliable, trusted test automation across multiple technology solutions, and you lead team efforts to elevate quality throughout the project lifecycle.
• Deep expertise in test strategy and design for complex, multi-layered systems, using risk-based approaches
• Expert, code-based automation in at least one major language and stack, having planned, designed, and built frameworks from the ground up
• Command of CI/CD and quality gates, non-functional quality (performance, security, accessibility), and API and contract testing
• A consultative approach: credibility with client leaders, the ability to frame quality in business terms, and comfort handling disagreement and ambiguity
• Daily, hands-on use of AI-assisted tools with examples of verifying their output, experience writing precise specs, working knowledge of evaluating AI-powered features, and awareness of how agentic systems fail

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years in quality engineering or software delivery, with deep expertise in at least one area of modern software quality and working breadth across the rest.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• Technical skills: Expert, code-based test automation, including building frameworks from the ground up, with hands-on experience in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API testing.
• Consulting and leadership: Experience advising clients and senior stakeholders and coaching or mentoring engineers.
• AI-assisted quality: Hands-on, daily use of AI-assisted tools and working knowledge of evaluating AI-powered features.

Work arrangement: Hybrid with days that may require in-person collaboration, including travel to client locations in the U.S. or Canada.

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 includemeaningful 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:The targeted base salary pay range for Architect is $133,000 to $163,000. 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.

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EEO and Accommodations

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