Principal Consultant Platform Engineering - San Ramon, CA, United States - AHEAD

Description

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.

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.

Engagements typically include multiple practices across the Digital Solutions portfolio: Cloud, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Data, and Agile. Helps teams flourish by guiding efforts, directing talents and expanding knowledge and skills to deliver strategic solutions to clients.

Principal Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties.

Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings
Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides 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 allow the ideation of a strawman proposal
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 offerings and deployment services
Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards
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)
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle principles
Minimum of five years of executive technology consulting experience
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
Executive presence
Senior-level consulting experience is a plus
MBA is a plus

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.

That's why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more

Please note that although some job posting are indicated as remote, it is solely for the purpose of the posting.

It is company policy for employees within thirty miles of an office to be in-office at least 2 days per week.

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