AHEAD

Builds and manages enterprise technology

Senior Technical Consultant - Cloud & AI, Platform Engineering

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeGurugram, Haryana, IndiaNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

At least 7 years of relevant experience in engagement leadership.
Experience leading end-to-end client engagements, owning scope and statement-of-work compliance, and managing governance, cadence, risks, and escalations.
Experience leading and staffing a small team or pod, setting team-member goals, and providing structured coaching and feedback.
Experience with multi-cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and with platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application and data domains.
Ability to produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and a sequenced roadmap, and translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes.
Experience implementing AI-driven solutions and developing reusable delivery playbooks, templates, and standards.

Responsibilities

Own each engagement end to end as Engagement Lead, from kickoff through executive readout, serving as the primary customer contact and point of accountability for delivery.
Own scope and statement-of-work compliance by setting success criteria, managing change control, and aligning stakeholders on outcomes and boundaries.
Run engagement governance and cadence, including standups, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, risk, action, issue, and decision management, and decision logs.
Serve as the escalation point for engagement risks and resolve issues before they threaten scope, timeline, or the client relationship.
Drive quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks on client-facing deliverables.
Lead a two- to three-person pod, plan and execute work across discovery, analysis, and executive readout, and ensure each engagement is staffed appropriately.
Set quarterly and annual goals for pod members and provide structured coaching and feedback to support their growth.
Staff and manage utilization across sold and internal projects, forecast needs, and maintain delivery rhythm.
Maintain engagement records, including risks, decisions, and artifact version control.
Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud platforms, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application and data domains.
Produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and a sequenced roadmap.
Translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes.
Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight.
Capture and evolve questionnaires, scoring rubrics, and readout templates, incorporating them into the Rapid Solutions playbook.
Define and refine Rapid Solutions offerings, owning the playbook, templates, and delivery standards to ensure repeatable delivery.
Partner with practice leaders to align Rapid Solutions standards with broader delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives.

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Join AHEAD's Rapid Solutions Team as a Rapid Solutions Pod Lead, a role that spans engagement leadership, people leadership, client delivery, and offering development. You will be the primary point of accountability for every engagement in your pod, from the first client conversation through the executive readout, owning scope, governance, cadence, and outcomes. You will also lead a small pod of engineers, setting their goals and coaching their growth, so the team behind each engagement is as strong as the engagement itself. Beyond delivery, you will own the evolution of the Rapid Solutions offering, refining the playbooks, templates, and delivery standards that keep the practice repeatable and scalable.

This role sits within AHEAD's AI & Cloud Practice, so engagements center on helping clients modernize and optimize across multi-cloud platforms, platform engineering, and AI-driven solutions. You'll bring that focus to bear on every Rapid Assess and Rapid Solutions engagement your pod delivers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

7+ years of relevant experience in:

Engagement Leadership

Own every engagement end to end as Engagement Lead, from kickoff through executive readout, serving as the primary customer point of contact and the single point of accountability for delivery.

Own scope and SoW compliance: set success criteria, manage change control, and keep stakeholders aligned on outcomes and boundaries.

Run governance and cadence: standups, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs.

Act as the escalation point for engagement risk, resolving issues before they threaten scope, timeline, or the client relationship.

Drive quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks on all client-facing deliverables.

People Leadership

Lead a 2-3 person pod, planning and executing work across discovery, analysis, and executive readout, and ensuring each engagement has the right people staffed against it.

Set quarterly and annual goals for pod members and provide structured coaching and feedback to support their growth.

Staff and manage utilization across sold and internal projects, forecasting needs and maintaining delivery rhythm.

Maintain engagement hygiene: risks, decisions, and artifact version control.

Solution Delivery

Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and app/data domains.

Produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and a sequenced roadmap.

Translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes.

Standards, Tooling & Reuse

Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight.

Capture and evolve collateral (questionnaires, scoring rubrics, readout templates) and fold it into the Rapid Solutions playbook for consistent delivery.

Practice Development & Offering Evolution

Define and refine Rapid Solutions offerings: own the playbook, templates, and delivery standards, removing ambiguity and ensuring repeatability.

Partner with practice leaders to align Rapid Solutions standards with broader AHEAD delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include:

Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents

Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy

Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance

Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling

Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being

Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations

Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership

About the Company

AHEAD

Builds and manages enterprise technology

AHEAD designs and runs technology systems for large enterprises, connecting infrastructure, applications, data and security under a single delivery team. Its roots in data centers shape its approach to modernizing complex environments that span private facilities and public clouds. Engineers assess a client's existing systems, plan upgrades and build the platforms, while managed services teams monitor operations, maintain software and respond to security incidents. The company earns money through consulting and implementation projects, technology sales and ongoing services that keep those environments running. AHEAD was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $9M
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Founded: 2007

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