Data Principal Technical Consultant

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $230k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💼 Consultant

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior technical leader across complex client engagements, providing architectural direction and technical oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle • Partner with the Principal Consultant and Project Manager to align technical execution with business objectives, delivery plans, and client expectations • Establish technical strategy, solution architecture, integration approaches, implementation standards, and engineering best practices • Review and approve technical designs, architectures, code quality, data models, integrations, and engineering deliverables • Guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges across multiple workstreams • Identify technical risks, architectural concerns, performance issues, and implementation challenges and develop mitigation strategies • Act as the primary technical escalation point for delivery teams and critical client situations • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, operationally supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards • Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, design sessions, proof-of-concept efforts, and executive technical presentations • Partner with Client Directors, Principal Consultants, and Solution Architects during discovery, assessments, and solution development • Develop solution architectures, technical approaches, estimates, implementation strategies, and technical proposals • Identify opportunities to expand client engagements through additional capabilities, modern architectures, and emerging technologies • Drive technical standards, reference architectures, engineering frameworks, reusable accelerators, and delivery best practices • Serve as a recognized technical leader across modern data platforms, cloud technologies, AI, governance, and analytics • Mentor and coach Technical Consultants, Senior Technical Consultants, and Solution Architects • Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, certification planning, technical enablement, and capability development • Lead innovation initiatives and contribute to technical thought leadership across the Data Practice • Promote engineering excellence, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical discipline • Typically 12–15+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise data, analytics, AI, cloud, or digital transformation solutions • Minimum seven years of consulting or professional services experience leading technical delivery for complex enterprise engagements • Demonstrated success as a Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Principal Architect, or senior engineering leader on large-scale transformation initiatives • Deep expertise in modern data platforms, cloud ecosystems, data engineering, enterprise architecture, AI, analytics, governance, integration, and distributed systems • Experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance, engineering standards, and enterprise solution design • Strong communication, facilitation, consulting, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executive and technical audiences • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred • Professional certifications in Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or other enterprise technologies preferred • Experience leading enterprise modernization, AI adoption, cloud migration, data platform transformation, or enterprise architecture initiatives preferred • Experience developing technical offerings, reference architectures, engineering frameworks, reusable IP, or practice enablement assets preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Cross-department training and development • Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning • Multi-million-dollar technology lab • Diversity and inclusion groups and initiatives