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Senior Consultant – Advisory
About the role
• Facilitate sections of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
• Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
• Lead technical project teams delivering consulting service offerings
• Drive objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, milestones, status, dependencies, and timelines to deliver engagements successfully and on time
• Break down complex problems into manageable segments and determine project approaches
• Create and edit project deliverables
• Present deliverables to client executive management
• Define outcome-based success measures and track scope, schedule, and budget metrics
• Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings and strawman proposals
• Identify follow-on and expansion opportunities and co-author points of view and market-facing content
• Represent service offerings during sales cycles, including project scoping, proposal development, and client proposal presentations
• Build senior client and C-suite relationships, facilitate consensus, and address difficult client conversations
• Assess client technology footprints to identify and prioritize value-creation opportunities
• Build and maintain business-case components, including cost/benefit, ROI, and TCO inputs
• Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory consulting and deployment services
• Serve as a technology thought leader and evangelist
• Maintain knowledge of current and future IT trends, technologies, and standards
• Contribute analytical content to at least one published thought-leadership asset annually
• Advise clients on digital transformation, cloud platforms, and enterprise technology strategy
• Mentor team members
• Guide day-to-day work across one or more client workstreams and coordinate with other workstream leaders
• Troubleshoot daily project issues and risks
• Generate proposals with the team and liaise between clients and delivery teams
• Maintain close client contact throughout projects
• Obtain management approval before significant program changes
• Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience as a senior information technology leader, including at least six years of executive technology consulting experience
• Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline; MBA is a plus
• Ability to break down complex, ambiguous problems into structured, actionable workstreams
• Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent, leading teams through complex technology-driven initiatives
• Working knowledge of proposal development and the consulting sales cycle
• Client relationship management with executive and C-suite stakeholders
• Demonstrated business acumen, including understanding client industries, operating models, and strategic priorities
• Executive presence and polished presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and active-listening ability
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to connect with different personalities
• 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
• Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning
• Multi-million-dollar technology lab