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Principal Consultant — Advisory

AHEAD· Digital Solutions Group / Advisory
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Hybrid (United States)$220k - $360kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Seasoned client-facing consultant with leadership skills directing a diverse advisory and delivery team, focused on successful delivery and acting as a trusted advisor to explore client needs and create proposals.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
  • Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
  • Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
  • Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting business objectives
  • Break down problems into manageable segments, identify factors affecting the problem and decide how to approach the project
  • Final editing and sign off on project deliverables
  • Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
  • Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and ideation of strawman proposals
  • Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
  • Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives
  • Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting and deployment services
  • Act as technology thought leader and evangelist
  • Maintain broad knowledge of IT marketplace trends, technologies, and standards
  • Mentor to team members

Qualifications

  • Senior-level consulting experience
  • Minimum 15 years of experience as senior information technology leader overseeing transformative modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud adoption, automation, platform engineering, agile-at-scale adoption)
  • Strong understanding of business measurement frameworks (e.g., OKRs)
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle principles
  • Minimum of 8+ years of executive technology consulting experience
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated Business Acumen
  • Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
  • Executive presence
  • Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
  • MBA is a plus

Skills

Required:Client deliveryProject managementBusiness development

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Plus more! See benefits at https://www.aheadbenefits.com/
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Digital Platforms Engineered for Modern Enterprises

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.

Platform SolutionsInfrastructure ModernizationLifecycle ManagementSeamless Integration
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