2 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and oversight across complex client engagements.
- Define solution architectures, technical strategies, integration approaches, implementation standards, and engineering best practices.
- Review and approve technical designs, architectures, code quality, data models, integrations, and engineering deliverables.
- Lead technical discovery workshops, architecture assessments, design sessions, proof-of-concept efforts, and executive technical presentations.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, architectural concerns, performance issues, and implementation challenges.
- Develop technical approaches, estimates, implementation strategies, and proposals in partnership with consulting, client, and solution architecture teams.
- Drive architecture governance, technical standards, reference architectures, reusable accelerators, and delivery best practices.
- Mentor technical consultants, senior technical consultants, and solution architects while supporting recruiting, onboarding, certification planning, and technical enablement.
- Lead innovation initiatives and contribute to technical thought leadership, business development, and Data Practice growth.
Requirements
- 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.
- At least 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 for executive and technical audiences.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
- Professional certifications in Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or other enterprise technologies are preferred.
- Experience with enterprise modernization, AI adoption, cloud migration, data platform transformation, enterprise architecture, technical offerings, reference architectures, engineering frameworks, reusable IP, or practice enablement assets is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k).
- Paid company holidays and paid time off.
- Paid parental and caregiver leave.
- Internal diversity and professional development groups, cross-department training, and sponsored certifications and credentials.
- Access to a multi-million-dollar technology lab.
- Additional benefits are available through the company benefits website.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About AHEAD
AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.