Data Program Delivery Lead - Data Solution Owner (Calgary)

Who We Are

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology company that leads with outcomes and teams with leaders, bringing more together. Our purpose is to help people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. Every day we bring our heads and our hearts to being a trusted copilot, respectful challenger, and unwavering champion for each of our customers.

Our strategic vision is to be the first in our industry to lead with bringing more and delivering outcomes as we work to become the world’s most customer-obsessed and employee-empowered services company. 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.

At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Job Title: Data Delivery Owner (For Vacant Role)

We are seeking an experienced Data-Oriented Program Delivery Leader, to lead the development and implementation of clients’ data products, data ecosystems, and data transformation initiatives. This multifaceted role combines strategic program and team leadership with a depth in data & analytics, and a passion for solving clients' most strategic business initiatives through leading data-driven insights and solutions.

This role will manage large transformation programs, data-oriented workstreams within programs, depending on scope and organizational needs. It will be hands-on managing delivery execution using Agile frameworks and tools.

This role will bridge technical execution, business strategy, stakeholder management, and team enablement to deliver solutions that unlock the value of clients’ data assets and promote data-driven decisions supporting strategic client outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data products, data transformation programs, and data-focused workstreams, owning scope, timelines, budgets, and staffing to ensure successful, profitable outcomes aligned to business objectives.
• Serve as the primary solution and delivery owner, balancing business needs with technical feasibility, scalability, and architectural standards while making data-informed prioritization and trade-off decisions.
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating technical capabilities into business value and managing expectations across scope, timelines, and resources.
• Own financial and strategic program outcomes by articulating ROI, cost savings, revenue opportunities, and long-term value of the solution and associated client and delivery data initiatives.
• Drive account (client) growth through strong delivery execution, high quality delivery outcomes, trusted client relationships, and measurable outcomes.
• Coach and enable high-performing, self-organizing teams through agile principles, practices, and mindset.
• Empower delivery team to maintain momentum by proactively resolving impediments, serving as a trusted resource when navigating complex or uncertain situations, and championing the delivery principles that guide the team's ways of working.
• Leverage AI, automation, and AI-powered collaboration tools to streamline delivery, improve productivity, surface insights and lessons learned, and support faster, data-driven decisions.
• Contribute to growing and improving the Slalom Data Capability through mentorship, sharing best practices for delivery leadership and execution, and engaging in community development

What You’ll Bring

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, resource allocation, budget management, program dependencies, risks, and issues with appropriate mitigation strategies
• Partner with solution architects to facilitate alignment between business vision and technical implementation approach, while co-owning solution design and ensuring integration across workstreams
• Engage with executive sponsors, business stakeholders, client technical teams, and Slalom teams to explain and drive forward delivery solution initiatives and efforts
• Create and deliver executive summaries and presentations that demonstrate program vision, roadmap, solution impact, and program status
• Lead one or more agile teams by facilitating scrum events (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives)
• Facilitate prioritization of work items with client stakeholders and track prioritization at the necessary levels within the project (Program, Project, Epics, Features, User Stories) and document the details and requirements in said levels
• Guide the team in estimation techniques (story points, planning poker) and capacity planning
• Validate solutions against requirements and ensure acceptance criteria are met
• Track team velocity, burndown charts, and other agile metrics to drive predictability
• Responsible for comprehensive documentation including requirements, process flows, and acceptance criteria
• Responsible for creation of clear, actionable backlogs aligned with business priorities, governance frameworks and operational playbooks, surfacing, managing, and seeing Risks and Issues to resolution
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• 7+ years of experience in technical project management, product management, technical delivery leadership roles, 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, cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern data stack technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, DataOps, and data mesh
• Expertise in Agile Delivery demonstrated through project experience. Proficiency with agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Miro, Version One, Rally, etc.), work management platforms (Monday.com, Asana, etc.), and team planning tools (Jira Roadmaps, Azure DevOps Delivery Plans, Microsoft Planner, Project, etc.) and familiarity with test case management strategies and tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, qTest, etc.)
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and comfortable with leading executive-level communications and project-level workshops

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.

Hybrid/In office: We are hybrid but there are expectations that if your team leader or client requires you onsite that you are able to meet those expectations/requirements

Slalom Employee Perks:

• Culture & fun!
• Lunch & learns
• Health & wellness activities
• Holiday parties
• Employee community groups
• Social clubs & activities
• Vacation (20 days prorated based on start date & wellness/sick days)

Tangible perks

• Competitive compensation package
• $100 cell phone monthly reimbursement
• Registered Retirement Program (RRSP) & Employer Matching
• Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
• Annual “Thrive Well-Being” Gift Card
• Family planning/ Fertility Benefit
• Maternity/Parental Leave Top-Up
• Medical & Dental Benefits
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Access to Supplementary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Inkblot Therapy
• And more!

*All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements

Slalom is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will work to reasonably accommodate applicants’ needs throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.

Please note if you are hired at Slalom you will be required to complete a background check.