Senior Principal - AI Accelerated Engineering Lead; East

Senior Principal - AI Accelerated Engineering Lead (East) Slalom
• Atlanta, GA, United States

As a Senior Principal, you will guide teams in the shift toward AI-accelerated engineering and define clear guardrails for how generative AI supports software delivery. You will also own the architecture of client solutions while pioneering the next generation of AI-empowered software development. You’ll lead teams in adopting AI-first engineering practices – bringing clarity, structure, and guardrails to how organizations build with generative AI.

You’ll join a tightly knit product team of engineers, product leaders, designers, and data practitioners who co-create modern software with our customers. We move from discovery to delivery together, pairing on code, pressure-testing ideas with real users, and turning learnings into ship‑ready increments. You will collaborate with customer stakeholders and field teams to bring outside‑in insights into the roadmap, and you’ll help enable clients on the practices and tools we use so they can sustain value long after launch.

Think craft‑driven Builders who care about outcomes, not just output.

The software engineering senior principal balances their time between being an effective people leader and setting the technical direction in the delivery of some of our most challenging engagements. You are the advocate for your direct reports. You will develop strong, lasting relationships with each of them as you identify the perfect project match for their skills and objectives. You will partner with clients to understand the most complex technical and functional challenges they are facing.

As you iterate on solutions with clients, you will develop implementation and delivery plans that take advantage of emerging technologies  will coordinate with other capabilities and technical leads to ensure that world‑class user experiences are understood, validation procedures aligned, and automation components delivered. You will help pursue new business opportunities as a technical expert, detailing proposals for how we would approach delivery.

Your expertise in designing and developing holistic software solutions will benefit the rest of Slalom and Build capability as you lead communities and provide mentorship to other Builders. Specifically, you will:

• Lead delivery and implementation:
  Oversee discovery, delivery, and implementation planning across multiple value streams and ensure teams ship high‑quality software using clear, repeatable approaches.
• Guide people and technical direction:
  Support direct reports in their growth, provide technical leadership in pursuits, and contribute knowledge that strengthens engineering practices across Slalom.
• Redefine the AI‑first SDLC:
  Design flows, patterns, and guardrails that integrate generative AI from ideation through operations.
• Lead with context engineering:
  Apply and guide strategies such as prompt templating, embeddings, retrieval‑augmented generation, and data grounding to ensure AI‑driven development is accurate, reliable, and safe.
• Manage GenAI‑driven teams:
  Orchestrate multi‑developer environments where AI agents and engineers work side by side – ensuring productivity, quality, and responsible adoption.
• Ship AI‑enabled platforms:
  Build and codify repeatable practices such as evaluation harnesses, code‑review agents, context packs, and CI/CD hooks.
• Stay hands‑on:
  Own product architecture while prototyping and hardening AI‑driven solutions using modern Dev Ops and observability practices.
• Enable and transform:
  Coach teams and client stakeholders on AI‑accelerated ways of working; translate complex AI concepts into clear business outcomes.

• Leadership & communication:
  Ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and articulate value to both technical and business audiences.
• Experience:
  
  8+ years building and operating production software, with proven leadership in system or platform architecture.
• Hands‑on AI‑accelerated development:
  Daily use of agentic IDEs and advanced tooling (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) beyond basic chat interfaces.
• Proven track record with GenAI…