Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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)
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more!
Company Overview
AHEAD is a solutions-based company that helps clients move to an optimized IT service delivery model. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.ahead.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
AHEAD has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2026, 24 in 2025, 19 in 2024, 22 in 2023, 20 in 2022, 18 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.