Senior Data Consultant

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Overview

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.

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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.

Seasoned customer facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent. Provides onsite, hands-on client engagement management which involves the day-to-day running of a client engagement. Engagements typically include multiple practices across the Digital Solutions portfolio: Data, Cloud, Application Development, Agile, and DevOps. Helps teams flourish by guiding efforts, directing talents and expanding knowledge and skills to deliver strategic solutions to clients. They are the on-the-ground leaders, directing work efforts, analyzing and reviewing proposals from the team, providing appropriate solutions to problems, and making decisions on the way forward by acting as liaisons between the client and the delivery team.

Focused primarily on successful delivery but utilizes their position as a trusted advisor to explore other client needs and working with the team to create proposals to address them. Senior Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties.

Client Delivery:

Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops

Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed

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

Business Development:

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

Practice Development & Thought Leadership:

Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services

Technology thought leader and evangelist

Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards

Mentor to team members

Minimum 10 years of experience as senior information technology leader overseeing transformative modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud adoption, data governance, data strategy, automation, agile-at-scale adoption)

Senior-level consulting experience

Strong understanding of business measurement frameworks (e.g., OKRs)

Minimum of five years of executive technology consulting experience

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrated Business Acumen

Ability to solve complex, abstract problems

Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities

Executive presence

Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent

MBA is a plus