Data Principal Technical Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership and Solution Delivery

  • Serve as the senior technical leader across complex client engagements, providing architectural direction and technical oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Partner with the Principal Consultant and Project Manager to align technical execution with business objectives, delivery plans, and client expectations.
  • Establish technical strategy, solution architecture, integration approaches, implementation standards, and engineering best practices.
  • Review and approve technical designs, architectures, code quality, data models, integrations, and engineering deliverables.
  • Guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges while ensuring consistency across multiple workstreams.
  • Proactively identify technical risks, architectural concerns, performance issues, and implementation challenges, and develop mitigation strategies before they affect delivery.
  • Act as the primary technical escalation point for delivery teams, providing guidance on complex issues and critical client situations.
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, operationally supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, design sessions, proof of concept efforts, and executive technical presentations.
  • Maintain accountability for technical quality, engineering excellence, and successful technical outcomes.

• Solution Strategy and Business Development

  • Partner with Client Directors, Principal Consultants, and Solution Architects during discovery, assessments, and solution development.
  • Lead technical discovery workshops and architecture assessments that shape client transformation strategies.
  • Develop solution architectures, technical approaches, estimates, implementation strategies, and technical proposals.
  • Communicate technical concepts effectively to executive, business, and technical audiences.
  • Identify opportunities to expand client engagements through additional capabilities, modern architectures, and emerging technologies.
  • Ensure proposed solutions balance business value, technical feasibility, delivery complexity, cost, and long-term maintainability.

• Technical Leadership and Practice Growth

  • Drive the evolution of technical standards, reference architectures, engineering frameworks, reusable accelerators, and delivery best practices.
  • Serve as a recognized technical leader across modern data platforms, cloud technologies, AI, governance, and analytics.
  • Mentor and coach Technical Consultants, Senior Technical Consultants, and Solution Architects through technical reviews, architecture guidance, and career development.
  • Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, certification planning, technical enablement, and capability development.
  • Lead innovation initiatives, evaluate emerging technologies, and contribute to technical thought leadership across the Data Practice.
  • Promote engineering excellence, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Expectations

• Leadership and Ownership

  • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership for technical delivery, architecture quality, engineering standards, and technical outcomes.
  • Establish technical direction, governance, priorities, and decision frameworks across engineering teams.
  • Make sound architectural decisions while balancing technical risk, delivery constraints, business priorities, and long-term maintainability.
  • Coach technical leaders, develop engineering talent, and foster a culture of accountability and technical excellence.

• Business and Consulting Acumen

  • Understand client business objectives and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
  • Apply structured thinking and consultative problem solving when evaluating technical alternatives and making architectural recommendations.
  • Clearly communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, assumptions, and recommendations to executive and technical stakeholders.
  • Balance business outcomes with technical quality, delivery timelines, operational supportability, and total cost of ownership.

• Technical Excellence

  • Serve as the technical authority for complex architectures, integrations, cloud platforms, data engineering, AI, governance, and modern data ecosystems.
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Drive consistency through architecture governance, design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
  • Continuously improve delivery quality by advancing reusable frameworks, standards, automation, and technical accelerators.

• Client and Technical Relationships

  • Build trusted relationships with client technology leaders through credibility, technical expertise, and consultative leadership.
  • Facilitate technical decision-making across engineering teams, architects, and executive stakeholders.
  • Resolve complex technical conflicts while building consensus across multiple teams.
  • Represent AHEAD with professionalism, executive presence, and technical credibility.

• Practice Leadership

  • Strengthen technical capabilities through mentoring, innovation, reusable assets, technical standards, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop future technical leaders and foster a culture of engineering excellence and collaboration.
  • Contribute to business development, technical strategy, solution innovation, and practice growth initiatives.