Data Principal Technical Consultant at Thinkahead

Job description

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. Roles & Responsibilities Technical Leadership and Solution Delivery • 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 while ensuring consistency across multiple workstreams. • Proactively identify technical risks, architectural concerns, performance issues, and implementation challenges, and develop mitigation strategies before they affect delivery. • Act as the primary technical escalation point for delivery teams, providing guidance on complex issues 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. • Maintain accountability for technical quality, engineering excellence, and successful technical outcomes. Solution Strategy and Business Development • Partner with Client Directors, Principal Consultants, and Solution Architects during discovery, assessments, and solution development. • Lead technical discovery workshops and architecture assessments that shape client transformation strategies. • Develop solution architectures, technical approaches, estimates, implementation strategies, and technical proposals. • Communicate technical concepts effectively to executive, business, and technical audiences. • Identify opportunities to expand client engagements through additional capabilities, modern architectures, and emerging technologies. • Ensure proposed solutions balance business value, technical feasibility, delivery complexity, cost, and long-term maintainability. Technical Leadership and Practice Growth • Drive the evolution of 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 through technical reviews, architecture guidance, and career development. • Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, certification planning, technical enablement, and capability development. • Lead innovation initiatives, evaluate emerging technologies, and contribute to technical thought leadership across the Data Practice. • Promote engineering excellence, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the organization. Expectations Principal