Senior Technical Consultant | Cloud & Platform Engineering

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1K-5K
$43M raised

Description

  • Own client engagements end to end, from kickoff through executive readout, as the primary point of contact and single point of accountability.
  • Define scope, success criteria, and change control while keeping stakeholders aligned on outcomes and boundaries.
  • Run engagement governance, including standups, status reporting, steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs.
  • Escalate and resolve engagement risks before they affect scope, timeline, or client relationships.
  • Lead a 2-3 person pod across discovery, analysis, and executive readout, ensuring the right people are staffed on each engagement.
  • Set quarterly and annual goals for pod members and provide structured coaching and feedback.
  • Manage utilization across sold and internal projects and forecast staffing needs.
  • Maintain engagement hygiene, including risk tracking, decisions, and artifact version control.
  • Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and app/data domains.
  • Produce prioritized recommendations, effort sizing, sequenced roadmaps, and executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes.
  • Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight.
  • Capture, refine, and reuse collateral such as questionnaires, scoring rubrics, and readout templates.
  • Own and evolve the Rapid Solutions playbook, templates, and delivery standards to improve repeatability and scalability.
  • Partner with practice leaders to align Rapid Solutions standards with broader AHEAD delivery frameworks and initiatives.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Experience in engagement leadership.
  • Experience in people leadership.
  • Experience in solution delivery.
  • Experience leading multi-cloud engagements across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Experience with platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains.
  • Ability to manage governance, scope, and stakeholder alignment on client engagements.
  • Ability to lead a small pod of 2-3 engineers.
  • Experience producing executive-ready recommendations and presentations.
  • Knowledge of AI-driven solutions is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents.
  • Paid time off and company holidays, plus additional leave benefits as per policy.
  • Flexible work arrangements.
  • Learning and development opportunities, including cross-department training and sponsored certifications/credentials.
  • Employee wellness initiatives supporting physical and mental well-being.
  • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations.
  • An inclusive, people-first culture with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership.

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