Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AHEAD builds platforms for digital business by combining cloud infrastructure, automation, analytics, and software delivery to support digital transformation. The Principal Consultant leads client engagements, directs advisory and delivery teams, manages strategic consulting projects, supports business development, and develops advisory offerings and technology thought leadership.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
- Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
- Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
- Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
- Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project
- Final editing and sign off on project deliverables
- Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
- Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal
- Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
- Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives
- Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services
- Technology thought leader and evangelist
- Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards
- Mentor to team members
Skills
- Senior-level consulting experience
- Minimum 15 years of experience as senior information technology leader overseeing transformative modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud adoption, automation, platform engineering, agile-at-scale adoption)
- Strong understanding of business measurement frameworks (e.g., OKRs)
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle principles
- Minimum of 8+ years of executive technology consulting experience
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated Business Acumen
- Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
- Executive presence
- Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
- MBA is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Cross-department training and development
- Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning
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