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Operates and supports customer cloud environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident and request response, provisioning, access management, maintenance, troubleshooting, governance, documentation, customer communication, and ITSM execution. The role also uses scripting, automation, monitoring, and DevOps/SRE practices to improve operational consistency. Participation in after-hours and weekend on-call support is required.

Leads complex enterprise data, analytics, AI, cloud, and digital transformation engagements as the primary executive advisor. Owns client success, delivery quality, financial performance, governance, strategic direction, stakeholder relationships, and account growth. Leads executive workshops, steering committees, roadmaps, proposals, and solution development while mentoring consulting leaders and advancing practice methodologies, offerings, and delivery standards.

Provides senior technical leadership across complex data, analytics, AI, cloud, governance, and digital transformation engagements. Responsibilities include solution architecture, technical governance, engineering oversight, risk mitigation, technical discovery, executive presentations, mentoring, practice development, innovation, and business development. The role guides engineering teams, approves designs and deliverables, develops technical strategies, and ensures scalable, secure, maintainable solutions.

Leads AHEAD’s Specialist Solutions Engineering team, overseeing daily management, strategic technical direction, coaching, career development, performance metrics, partner relationships, customer engagement, presales processes, quoting, and collaboration with sales and delivery leaders. The role presents solutions to customers and partners, supports sales plays, develops resource capacity processes, and maintains alignment across presales, delivery, and customer stakeholders.

Drive enterprise adoption of AI services-led solutions by developing sales strategies, building pipelines, advising C-level stakeholders, designing tailored engagements, presenting solutions, negotiating contracts, and closing complex professional or managed services deals. Collaborate with consulting, delivery, presales, engineering, marketing, and customer success teams while contributing market insights, sales enablement, and thought leadership.

Leads enterprise organizational change management and transformation engagements, building durable change capabilities through Centers of Excellence, playbooks, manager-led practices, adoption metrics, and AI-enabled tools. Owns workstreams, client relationships, change strategies, stakeholder engagement, value realization, and roadmap development. Coaches junior consultants and client teams, supports proposals and practice development, and uses data to measure behavioral adoption and business outcomes. Requires Prosci ADKAR expertise, consulting experience, enterprise AI tool proficiency, and approximately 25% travel.

Lead architecture and design of CIAM and IAM solutions across customer, partner, and workforce use cases. Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and identity data models. Guide implementations (Okta, Auth0, Entra ID, cloud, CRM, ITSM), ensure security, scalability, compliance, and mentor teams while producing roadmaps and standards.

Own AHEAD’s VMware by Broadcom partnership GTM strategy and revenue growth, expanding annual revenue from approximately $700M to over $1B. Lead Broadcom relationships, identify new business opportunities, support strategic deals, coordinate international expansion, align cross-functional teams, track partnership KPIs and deal economics, and develop sales enablement and marketing programs. Provide executive reporting, prioritize initiatives, escalate issues, and drive accountability across sales, technical, marketing, delivery, operations, procurement, finance, and regional teams.

Leads cloud financial management and optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP clients. Analyzes spending, allocation, commitments, unit economics, forecasts, and savings opportunities; builds reporting and automation with SQL and scripting; and governs tagging and billing data. Advises technical, financial, procurement, and executive stakeholders, presents recommendations, executes remediation, mentors engineers, supports pre-sales, and improves FinOps standards and delivery practices. The remote U.S. role includes up to 10% domestic travel and occasional after-hours support.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of AI and agentic solutions on the ServiceNow platform (Now Assist, AI Agents, Predictive Intelligence). Mentor teams, run client workshops and demos, design integrations with LLMs and data sources, create AI adoption roadmaps and governance, and act as technical escalation and presales AI expert. Travel required (~25%).