Principal Solution Architect
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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AHEAD is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to join our Data and Analytics practice. This role is a senior solutions architect and go-to-market sales leader position that balances client delivery leadership, pre-sales ownership, and practice development. The Principal Solutions Architect serves as a client-facing technical leader and trusted advisor who helps win clients define and deliver complex data, analytics, cloud, and AI engagements.
This individual serves as the Solutions Lead on sales campaigns, aligning AHEAD solutions, partner capabilities, and delivery execution to client outcomes. In delivery, they may act as Engagement Lead and/or Technical Lead with accountability for engagement success, quality, stakeholder alignment, and business impact. Within the practice, they are expected to build practice pillars, create reusable intellectual property and service offerings, and drive innovation across modern data platforms, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
AHEAD ’s Data and Analytics practice helps clients accelerate the impact of data through consultative strategy, modern data platform architecture, data lifecycle management, analytics, and AI capabilities. This role is central to translating those capabilities into scalable client solutions and repeatable practice growth.
Key Responsibilities
Client Delivery
- Serve as the senior technical leader for large, complex, and strategic Data and Analytics engagements
- Lead strategy, roadmap, architecture, design, and planning workshops for enterprise clients
- Act as Engagement Lead and/or Technical Architecture Lead on customer-facing projects, when assigned
- Own delivery success by managing scope, objectives, requirements, milestones, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations
- Guide cross-functional delivery teams through the successful execution of consulting engagements
- Ensure deliverables are high quality, aligned to client business outcomes, and presented effectively to technical and executive stakeholders
- Break down complex risks or issues into manageable parts, identify root causes, and drive practical resolution paths
- Support enterprise stakeholder management across business, data, analytics, cloud, and technology teams
- Apply knowledge of AHEAD ’s project lifecycle management practices to support successful delivery from initiation through closure
- Lead clients through modern data and analytics transformations, including data strategy and governance, data lifecycle management, platform modernization, data engineering, reporting, analytics, and AI enablement
Pre-Sales and Business Development
- Serve as the Solutions Lead on sales pursuits for Data and Analytics opportunities
- Own the pre-sales process, including discovery, qualification, solution alignment, scoping, estimation, and proposal development
- Lead client discovery and visioning sessions to understand business drivers, current-state challenges, and desired outcomes
- Translate client needs into differentiated solution strategies that align practice offerings, partn