Financial Services Technology Consulting Leader

Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients.

Slalom UK is seeking a senior Financial Services Technical Account Lead to drive technology-led growth across Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management. This role will work closely with the Head of Financial Services, acting as the bridge between FS market ambitions and Slalom’s technology capabilities across Cloud, Data, AI and Engineering. It holds end-to-end accountability for technology-led pre-sales and solution shaping and plays a key role in identifying and prioritising FS technology delivery and capability needs to support sustainable growth.

The role is instrumental in ensuring early phase engagements translate into scalable, high-quality delivery, with a strong focus on delivery excellence, consistency and client outcomes across the FS portfolio. This is a market-facing leadership role, with significant leadership influence over strategy, growth and client outcomes.

As a Technical Account Lead, you will act as a senior technology adviser to FS clients, shaping complex opportunities and providing leadership and assurance on strategic engagements. Your role is to align client business objectives with Slalom's technology capabilities, build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, and ensure early-stage work transitions into high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities:

• FS Technology Advisory & Client Leadership: Serve as senior technology adviser to FS clients across banking, capital markets and wealth & asset management, leading executive-level conversations and shaping client agendas on technology strategy, cloud modernisation, data & AI and large-scale transformation.
• Go-To-Market & Pre-Sales Leadership: Partner with Head of FS and Technology Capability teams to develop technology go-to-market strategy and lead technology-led pre-sales including opportunity shaping, executive storytelling and deal close.
• Capability Integration & Solution Shaping: Act as the bridge between FS GTM leadership and Slalom's Cloud, Data, AI and Build capabilities, shaping integrated solutions that align business objectives to technology execution and ensuring effective reuse of Slalom IP and partner propositions.
• Delivery Leadership & Assurance: Provide senior leadership and assurance on strategically significant FS engagements, ensuring early-stage work transitions into high-quality, sustainable delivery and stepping into client leadership roles where senior technology credibility is required.
• Thought Leadership & Market Presence: Amplify Slalom's brand as a credible FS technology voice in the UK market through client engagement, industry events and published viewpoints, whilst building strong relationships with key technology and cloud partners.

What You’ll Bring:

• Deep Financial Services experience with strong exposure to banking, capital markets, and/or wealth & asset management.
• Proven track record in technology-led transformation (cloud, data, AI, platforms, operating models).
• Senior consulting background with strong pre-sales, deal shaping, and C-suite engagement experience.
• Entrepreneurial and growth-focused, demonstrating strong commercial judgement and encouraging creativity with a sense of fun in tackling new challenges.
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented, fostering a positive and enjoyable team atmosphere, and leading with a low-ego style.
• Brings credibility, integrity, and calm leadership presence, together with an approachable manner and a large dose of good humour.

We have deep relationships with leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome-based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients' problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.

Flexibility is key, as we sometimes need to adapt to meet client needs. This way, our team can work on high-impact projects they’ll love, knowing they have the flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives effectively.

Great solutions start with great people. At our employee-led company, your voice matters, and we love to hear your feedback. By leading with kindness, empathy, and striving for equity, we create better experiences for everyone.

There’s no shying away from it - the compensation and benefits on offer have to be competitive too, right? We know that. That’s why we have a dedicated team working with our leaders to ensure our packages are fair, competitive, and rewarding!

We are Slalom! 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.

We’re honoured to be consistently recognised as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for nine years running.

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