Senior Principal - Quality Engineering (Bogotá)

About the role

Slalom's Cloud-Build Quality Engineering (QE) discipline works with high-velocity software teams to build reliable, scalable software, using modern tools and techniques and promoting whole-team ownership of quality. As a Senior Principal in Bogotá, you will bring leadership to complex project delivery and to the QE discipline, guiding teams and clients on a quality strategy tailored to each project type. The role is hybrid, with flexible days that may require in-person collaboration at the office.

Key responsibilities

• Define holistic quality approaches for large client engagements and influence direction for complex, multi-workstream architectures.
• Participate in Discovery and Delivery activities to set future teams up for success.
• Define robust test automation architecture, apply and evolve open-source frameworks, and architect trusted test automation patterns with high reliability.
• Coach project team members and act as a people leader, covering career development, performance evaluation and alignment of people to client projects.
• Support skill and behavioral interviews for new hires and contribute to hiring and the growth of the capability.
• Share ideas on quality engineering as an emerging thought leader, contribute to capability initiatives, and support business development as a Quality Engineering subject matter expert.

Required profile

• A computer science-based mindset; a technology-based education is helpful.
• Consulting skills and broad delivery experience, advising clients and leading teams on solution architecture, deployment pipelines and modern software quality approaches.
• Strong communication skills for managing client relationships and interacting across teams.
• Organizational skills to balance client work, people leadership and capability initiatives.
• Valid professional license issued by the Consejo Profesional Nacional de Ingeniería (COPNIA) for engineering positions in Colombia.