Product Information Management (PIM) Architect

Who You’ll Work With Slalom Emerge is a team of trailblazers helping ensure we achieve our strategic goals of investing for the future and pursuing innovation as a competitive advantage.
We empower our local markets by identifying emerging capabilities, building multi-disciplinary teams, and providing access to niche and hyper-specialized expertise.
We are looking for a Product Information Management (PIM) Architect with extensive knowledge and experience across the PIM landscape.
Specific expertise required for Akeneo and Salsify PIM platforms with multiple successfully completed projects and certifications.
What You’ll Do Guide clients through vendor selection assessments from a platform agnostic position.
Guide clients through discovery and requirements gathering for PIM implementation.
Provide subject matter expertise across a wide variety of projects.
Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Akeneo and Salsify PIM capabilities, best practice, and configuration options.
Ability to trouble-shoot existing implementations and provide a roadmap for resolution.
Participate in PIM system design, development, and implementation.
Provide advanced-level technical design, development, testing, debugging and documentation skills.
Interface with client technical leads and architects in support of integration design.
Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical architecture deliverables for all layers of business-critical, complex, or multi-functional applications.
Ensure that all architecture artifacts are documented and kept updated and stored in a library to facilitate collaboration across business and technology organization.
Lead and/or participate in architecture reviews.
Understand, advocate, and champion architecture principles and processes across development and architecture teams.
Maintain current with industry trends in the context of rapidly developing technologies, determining the applicability of new technologies, and recommending appropriate usage.
Contribute to planning efforts, budget formulation and allocation of resources in support of the mission.
Deep understanding of Data Governance practices and implications for PIM implementations.
What You’ll Bring Experience in designing, documenting, and implementing complex technical architecture.
Experience in configuring Akeneo & Salsify.
Current Akeneo and Salsify certifications, or the ability to pass the certification exam within 30 days of employment.
Experience integrating with a variety of data sources and exporting to a variety of data feeds, channels etc.
Demonstrated ability to form and maintain collaborative partnerships across a complex organization with diverse constituencies; ability to build consensus on complex and sometimes controversial subjects.
5+ years of experience developing and working with APIs.
2+ years of experience with Akeneo and Salsify, ideally holding a leadership role on at least 2 full scale PIM projects.
Excellent client facing, verbal and written communication skills.
Professional Skills Required Customer focused.
Ability to make decisions quickly and implement.
Must be a self-starter, very organized and able to work independently as well as in small groups, including customer technical and business employees.
Ability to lead multiple teams to drive incident resolution.
Willingness to work on projects which may stretch your current skillset to help the business maintain momentum.
Willingness to learn new platforms, programming languages and ways of working based on demand About Us Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company.
From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human.
In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact.
Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.
We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running.
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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 include meaningful 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.
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.
EEO and Accommodations Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities.
Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process.
Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.