Principal Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business, helping enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. The Principal Technical Consultant serves as a technical thought leader, leading the development and implementation of client solutions while mentoring team members and driving business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, at the highest quality standards while exceeding client expectations
• Design and implement complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, drive business growth, and identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling
• Develop high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders, this can include both technical documentation and non-technical documentation
• Collaborate with clients to understand their technical challenges and develop tailored solutions to address their needs
• Create and present solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients’ senior leadership teams
• Develop and maintain Technical Roadmaps and Innovation Plans
• Develop and implement CI/CD solutions
• Establish project estimates and plans, identify risks and mitigations, oversee development and delivery of technical solutions
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members, empowering them to grow and excel in their roles
• Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities

Requirements:

• Experience and ability to 'jump on a whiteboard' in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge
• Strong consulting and business acumen
• 10+ years of IT experience and 5+ years of Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience
• Multiple certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, Etc
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Platform core services around Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Security, Identity, etc
• Experience with organizational adoption of transformational initiatives – Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM, CloudFormation
• Experience with using and managing deployment services such as Harness, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, etc
• Knowledge and usage of branching strategies is required
• Hands-on experience in programming with Java, Python or any development language
• Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of modern cloud-native application design principles, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines
• Knowledge of enterprise organizations across multiple industries and inner IT functions (e.g. Enterprise Architecture, Operations)