Principal Consultant

Good co India; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking an experienced technology consulting leader to guide complex engagements from discovery through solution design and implementation. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating business challenges into scalable technology strategies and architectures.

You will define transformation roadmaps, lead workshops, and oversee architecture reviews while mentoring consulting teams.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in technology consulting or enterprise architecture.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Experience with roadmaps, architecture reviews, and transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technology consulting engagements from discovery to implementation.
• Act as trusted tech advisor to senior stakeholders and translate business challenges into tech solutions.
• Define and execute technology strategies, roadmaps, and target architectures.
• Lead client workshops, requirement gathering, and architecture reviews.
• Design scalable, secure, cost-effective enterprise architectures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors based on business needs.
• Drive digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Develop business cases, proposals, and transformation plans.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and governance across programs.
• Provide technical leadership and governance aligned with standards.

Skills

Technology strategy

Solution architecture

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Pre-sales

Leadership mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline

MBA/PGDM in Technology Management or Consulting

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Lead complex technology consulting engagements from discovery and strategy through solution design and implementation.
• Act as a trusted technology advisor to senior client stakeholders, understanding business challenges and translating them into technology solutions.
• Define and execute technology strategies, transformation roadmaps, target architectures, and implementation plans.
• Lead client workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, discovery exercises, architecture reviews, and technology assessments.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise and solution architectures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, products, and vendors and recommend solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Drive digital transformation, cloud adoption, application modernization, data, AI/ML, automation, and technology optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, product, engineering, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and project teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Develop business cases, proposals, solution documents, technical presentations, estimates, and transformation plans.
• Identify and manage technology risks, dependencies, security concerns, architectural constraints, and implementation challenges.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across complex programs and ensure adherence to technology standards and best practices.
• Support pre-sales, RFP/RFI responses, solutioning, client presentations, and proposal development where required.
• Manage senior client relationships and identify opportunities for account growth and additional consulting engagements.
• Mentor consultants, architects, and technical team members and contribute to internal knowledge management and consulting best practices.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, regulatory requirements, and evolving technology architectures.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in technology consulting, IT consulting, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, digital transformation, or a related field.
• Proven experience independently leading complex consulting engagements and client-facing technology initiatives.
• Strong expertise in technology strategy, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud, software engineering, infrastructure, data, and cybersecurity.
• Hands‑on or strong working knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of system design, APIs, microservices, databases, DevOps, CI/CD, application modernization, and system integration.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps, target architectures, transformation strategies, business cases, and implementation plans.
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and commercially viable technology solutions.
• Experience with technology assessments, gap analysis, feasibility studies, vendor evaluations, architecture reviews, and technology due diligence.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum, SDLC, IT governance, risk management, change management, and program delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in pre-sales, proposal development, RFP/RFI responses, solution presentations, or account expansion is desirable.
• Strong client relationship management and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, influencing, and consulting skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect technology recommendations with business value, ROI, cost optimization, and growth objectives.
• Ability to lead and mentor technical teams while managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Experience in domains such as BFSI, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, telecom, SaaS, e-commerce, or other enterprise industries is an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• MBA/PGDM in Technology Management, IT Management, Business Administration, Strategy, or Consulting is preferred.
• Certifications such as AWS/Azure/GCP, TOGAF, ITIL, PMP/PRINCE2, Scrum, CISSP/CISM, or relevant domain certifications are advantageous.