Senior Solution Owner: AI-Driven Delivery Leader

Slalom, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 163,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health coverage

Paid holidays

Well-being reimbursement

Disability insurance

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Senior Architect - Solution Owner to drive AI-enabled delivery from strategy through software to measurable business impact in Chicago. You will lead cross-functional teams, partner with senior client stakeholders, and set the delivery standard by focusing on outcomes over outputs.

You will coach teams in Agile, oversee OKRs and KPIs, and shape roadmaps, governance, and AI tooling adoption across programs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large or multi-workstream programs with accountability for outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean) and adaptability to AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong executive communication skills with diverse client stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate complex client organizations and build trusted relationships.
• Risk identification, escalation, and mitigation across delivery and organizational change.
• Proficiency with AI tools across the delivery lifecycle for documentation, research, and backlog management.
• Technical fluency to engage credibly with engineering teams and evaluate toolchains.
• Experience establishing and tracking outcome-based metrics (OKRs, KPIs) and coaching clients to measure business impact.

Responsibilities

• Taking full responsibility for solution and project success measured by OKRs and KPIs.
• Validating product direction before engineering by testing strategy with clients and engineers.
• Owning and evolving the project's living context hub with AI tooling.
• Defining and managing governance at program scale including cadence and delivery reporting.
• Partnering with engineering leadership to validate technical approach and milestones.
• Designing and deploying prompts, agents, templates, and AI workflows across delivery lifecycle.
• Coaching client and delivery teams to adopt outcome-driven ways of working.
• Facilitating client conversations about AI tooling and value realization.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Agile leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

AI tooling familiarity

Risk management

Technical fluency

OKRs KPIs

Tools

Git

IDEs

Version control

Delivery tools

Job description

Slalom is seeking a Senior Architect - Solution Owner to drive AI-enabled delivery from strategy through software to measurable business impact in Chicago. You will lead cross-functional teams, partner with senior client stakeholders, and set the delivery standard by focusing on outcomes over outputs.

You will coach teams in Agile, oversee OKRs and KPIs, and shape roadmaps, governance, and AI tooling adoption across programs.