Technical Consultant – Cloud & Platform Engineering
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Rapid Solutions Pod Lead owning client engagements and leading engineers at AHEAD, which builds digital business platforms. Evolving repeatable cloud, platform engineering, and AI transformation offerings.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary customer point of contact and single point of accountability for engagements from kickoff through executive readout
- Own scope and statement-of-work compliance, set success criteria, manage change control, and align stakeholders on outcomes and boundaries
- Run governance and delivery cadence, including standups, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs
- Resolve engagement risks and escalations before they threaten scope, timelines, or client relationships
- Drive quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks for client-facing deliverables
- Lead a 2–3 person pod across discovery, analysis, and executive readout
- Set quarterly and annual goals for pod members and provide coaching and feedback
- Staff and manage utilization across sold and internal projects
- Maintain engagement hygiene, including risks, decisions, and artifact version control
- Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains
- Produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and sequenced roadmaps
- Translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes
- Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight
- Evolve collateral and incorporate it into the Rapid Solutions playbook
- Define and refine Rapid Solutions offerings, playbooks, templates, and delivery standards
- Partner with practice leaders to align Rapid Solutions standards with broader AHEAD delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives
Requirements:
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience with engagement leadership
- Experience owning engagements end to end as Engagement Lead
- Experience managing scope, statements of work, change control, governance, cadence, RAID management, and decision logs
- Experience managing engagement risk and escalation
- Experience driving quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks
- Experience leading and staffing a 2–3 person pod
- Experience setting goals and providing structured coaching and feedback
- Experience managing utilization and forecasting staffing needs
- Experience with technical discovery and analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Knowledge of platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains
- Ability to produce prioritized recommendations, effort sizing, and sequenced roadmaps
- Ability to translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes
- Experience implementing AI-driven solutions
- Experience creating and maintaining delivery playbooks, templates, standards, questionnaires, scoring rubrics, and readout templates
- Experience partnering with practice leaders and aligning delivery standards with broader frameworks
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
- Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
- Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
- Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
- Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
- Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership
- Cross department training and development
- Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning
- Multi-million-dollar technology lab
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