What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Technical Consultant - Data & Analytics position at AHEAD USA?
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.
As a Principal Technical Consultant, you will utilize your expertise and experience to architect, design, develop and deploy solutions for an array of technologies. In addition, a Principal Technical Consultant can drive a collaborative team leading, mentoring and ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality, owning the overall outcome of projects. A Principal Technical Consultant is a highly experienced field professional, who combines an excellent breadth of knowledge across open-source and cloud technologies with a proven track record of delivery. They are expected to exhibit a high degree of commercial awareness along with exceptional communication skills. They are trusted to lead large engagements with our most technically complex and politically demanding customers and can be called upon for escalations into other accounts.. There is an expectation of at least 25% travel.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Lead project teams to deploy solutions across open-source and cloud technologies.
- Ability to architect open-source and cloud related technology solutions involving such challenges as storage, messaging, streaming, analysis, scalability, development operations and security
- Participate in pre-sales cycle as technical expert including assisting Sales, System Engineers and Professional Services teams to drive open-source and cloud technologies adoption and maturation
- Ensuring integration components are cohesive and meet project requirements
- Supporting capacity planning functions to ensure adequate infrastructure exists to support growth
- Assisting development team in troubleshooting, coding, testing, implementation, and documenting solutions
- Lead complex programs of multiple resources
- Lead the architecture and design of complex solutions
- Lead the creation of written deliverables
- Lead client demos and working sessions
- Lead integration design sessions
- Lead client workshops as process and technical expert
- Escalation point for project team
- Work to influence team members, broader internal team, and external customers, likely including senior management, to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
- Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications
- Maintain expert level certifications
- Identify and communicate opportunities
- Provide thought leadership to Ahead and our customers
- Communicate with customers, which may include top management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and / or advising
- Generate differentiated marketing thought leadership for marketing
- Craft innovative and high impact solutions for complex client programs, relying on large teams to implement
- Contribute to projects / programs that may address future concepts, products, and technologies.
- Achieve high team standards. Contributes to the refinement of methodology and best practices to establish quality and effectiveness
- Understands performance, scaling and functional characteristics of software technologies
- Drive consensus with customer in solving complex solutions
- Mentor junior staff and support project leadership
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Why AHEAD :
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include : - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) - Paid company holidays - Paid time off - Paid parental and caregiver leave - Plus more! See benefits for additional details.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
