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Thinkahead Consultant Psychologist Pty Ltd

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1 - 10 employees

Thinkahead is a privately owned psychology firm working across both the clinical field of private practice as well as corporate consulting space.

📋 Description

• Facilitate application and platform assessments, modernization strategy development, target architecture design, roadmap creation, and planning workshops. • Lead technical teams across the full application landscape (CI/CD, testing, data migrations, architecture, application code) and review and sign off on key deliverables including assessments, architecture blueprints, migration plans, and proof-of-concept outcomes. • Establish standards across security, DevSecOps, cloud architecture, observability, testing, and operational readiness. • Demonstrate effective personal use of AI-assisted software delivery tools and help others use them effectively by structuring context, setting expectations, validating outputs, and ensuring engineering quality. • Lead, mentor, and guide consultants and client team members through implementation challenges and modern engineering practices. • Contribute to practice development through reusable assets, accelerators, methodologies, and thought leadership. • Build and sustain trust-based relationships with client Directors, VPs, and C-level technology leaders, positioning yourself and AHEAD as the trusted advisor on modernization strategy and execution. • Tailor communication style and storyline to the audience and lead discovery sessions, workshops, executive readouts, and difficult conversations. • Apply structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving to ambiguous client situations. • Develop modernization strategies that ladder up to clients' business and digital transformation objectives. • Build and defend the business case for modernization — quantifying TCO, ROI, and risk reduction. • Decompose enterprise modernization programs into pragmatic workstreams, sequencing decisions based on business value, risk, dependencies, and organizational readiness. • Continually identify new ways to serve the client, surfacing follow-on opportunities and expanding the footprint of the engagement. • Lead pre-sales and pursuit efforts for modernization opportunities.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading large-scale application transformation, custom development, or modernization engagements for enterprise clients. • Deep expertise in modernization strategies and patterns, including refactoring, rearchitecting, rebuilding, and related portfolio transformation approaches. • Expert-level understanding of cloud-native architecture (microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns, serverless, containers, orchestration) with in-depth proficiency on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP). • Deep proficiency in some common enterprise languages and frameworks, with the ability to read, write, debug, and review complex code (C#, Java, Python, TypeScript). • Strong experience with DevOps and DevSecOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, code security scanning, and observability. • Deep knowledge of data migration strategies and patterns. • Strong understanding of database modernization, schema evolution, and the migration of relational and non-relational data platforms. • Experience working with legacy or monolithic applications and understanding the challenges of older technology stacks. • Strong understanding of working with LLMs, including prompting, context management, context-window limitations, and clear output validation for AI-assisted delivery. • Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and modern SDLC practices. • Proven ability to architect robust, scalable, and secure solutions that directly address business needs. • Executive presence and trusted-advisor track record with senior client stakeholders (Director through C-suite). • Communicates with clarity and influence across audiences: constructs compelling storylines, surfaces underlying stakeholder concerns, and aligns groups around a recommendation. • Demonstrated ability to build, defend, and present business cases (TCO, ROI, value realization) that connect modernization investments to measurable financial and operational outcomes. • Strong ability to assess technical debt, identify modernization candidates, determine business value, and estimate effort and risk. • Ability to help clients develop an informed point of view on where and how to responsibly adopt AI-assisted engineering in their own organizations. • Experience in consulting or pre-sales roles, including technical solutioning, prototyping, requirements definition, and project scoping. • Strong leadership qualities with the ability to motivate teams and provide direct technical oversight and mentorship.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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