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Data Principal Technical Consultant

AHEAD· Digital Solutions Group – Data & Analytics
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Remote$230k - $275kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior technical leader responsible for architectural leadership, technical oversight, solution governance, and engineering direction across complex client engagements within AHEAD's Data & Analytics practice.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Architectural leadershipSolution architectureTechnical governanceCommunication to executives

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Plus more! See benefits for details.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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