Principal Consultant

AHEAD; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Dental Vision

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Benefits details at aheadbenefits

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Principal Consultant in Boise, Idaho, to lead on-site client engagements for SLED clients. You will guide strategy, planning, and delivery, directing advisory and delivery talent across projects.

You’ll collaborate with client executives, shape proposals, and drive success through strong leadership and technical insight. You will mentor teams, advance advisory offerings, and stay abreast of IT trends and standards, fostering growth and ensuring deliverables meet client

Qualifications

• Senior-level SLED consulting experience.
• Minimum 15 years of experience overseeing transformative modernization initiatives (cloud, automation, platform engineering, agile-at-scale).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and SDLC principles.
• Minimum five years of executive technology consulting experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated business acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead client delivery: facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops.
• Manage project tasks, milestones, and timelines; ensure on-time delivery and business outcomes.
• Represent service offerings during sales cycles: scoping, proposals, client presentations.
• Develop relationships with customers and present technical solutions to executives.
• Mentor team members and develop Advisory services offerings.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication

Problem solving

Team leadership

Client engagement

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar

MBA (plus)

Job 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.

AtAHEAD, 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,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

_ We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD. _

Principal Consultant

Seasoned SLED focused 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 SLED client engagement. 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. Principal Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Senior-level SLED consulting experience
• 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)
• Strong understanding of business measurement frameworks (e.g., OKRs)
• 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
• 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

Why AHEAD:

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.

USA Employment Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• 401(k)

• Paid company holidays

• Paid time off

• Paid parental and caregiver leave

• Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.