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Principal Technical Consultant, App Dev

AHEAD· Digital Solutions Group – Application Development
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Gurugram, HaryanaFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Leadership role guiding greenfield application development and modernization initiatives with a focus on technical leadership, architectural judgment, and delivery execution in Modern Apps. Leads teams building and modernizing web/mobile apps, APIs, and platform services, using AI-assisted tooling while ensuring architecture, security, scalability, and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • 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 — from engineers to C-level — and lead discovery sessions, workshops, executive readouts, and difficult conversations with confidence, empathy, and clarity.
  • Apply structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving to ambiguous client situations: frame core business issues, design analyses, and synthesize findings into a defensible point of view.
  • Develop modernization strategies that ladder up to clients' business and digital transformation objectives, accounting for organizational readiness, change management, and operating-model implications.
  • Build and defend the business case for modernization — quantifying TCO, ROI, and risk reduction — and use client’s cost and value drivers to prioritize candidates and roadmap.
  • Decompose enterprise modernization programs into pragmatic workstreams.
  • Continually identify new ways to serve the client and expand engagement scope.
  • Lead pre-sales and pursuit efforts for modernization opportunities: shape the opportunity, structure the solution, scope and estimate work, lead proposals and demos, and own technical credibility; contribute to commercial structuring and pricing.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience leading large-scale application transformation, custom development, or modernization engagements for enterprise clients.
  • Deep expertise in modernization strategies and patterns (refactoring, rearchitecting, rebuilding).
  • Expert-level understanding of cloud-native architecture (microservices, APIs, event-driven, serverless, containers) with proficiency on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Proficiency in common enterprise languages (C#, Java, Python, TypeScript).
  • Strong experience with DevOps/DevSecOps (CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, code security scanning, observability).
  • Deep knowledge of data migration strategies and patterns.
  • Strong understanding of database modernization and data migration.
  • Experience with legacy/monolithic apps.
  • Strong understanding of working with LLMs and AI-assisted delivery, including prompting and output validation.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies and modern SDLC practices.
  • Proven ability to architect robust, scalable, secure solutions addressing business needs.
  • Executive presence and trusted-advisor track record with senior client stakeholders.
  • Ability to communicate clearly to diverse audiences and build business cases (TCO, ROI).
  • Experience in consulting or pre-sales roles, including technical solutioning, prototyping, requirements, and scoping.
  • Strong leadership to motivate teams and provide technical mentorship.

Skills

Required:Application modernization strategyCloud-native architectureAI-assisted engineeringExecutive stakeholder management
Nice to have:Pre-sales / solutioning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees with dependents options
  • Paid time off and company holidays, with additional leave as per policy
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Employee wellness initiatives
  • Retirement and statutory benefits per India regulations
  • Inclusive, people-first culture
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.

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