Principal Consultant

Thinkahead Consultant Psychologist Pty Ltd

Principal Consultant leading delivery of strategic consulting services for AHEAD's digital transformation. Collaborating with clients to transform IT environments using next-gen technologies.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $300,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureChefCloudOpenStackPuppet

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
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
Final editing and sign off on project deliverables
Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
Technology thought leader and evangelist
Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT infrastructure marketplace including IT infrastructure trends, technologies, and standards
Assist with the maintenance and development of solution offerings
Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives
Approximate time allocation of principal consultants:
40%-50% - Coordinating and developing client deliverables
20%-30% - Writing and presenting statements of work and proposals (Pre-Sales)
10%-15% - Facilitating client workshops leading guided discovery and presentations
10%-15% - Developing new service offerings and enhancing existing offerings

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of experience in related areas including 5+ years of experience in developing and implementing infrastructure solutions for large companies
Demonstrated track record with architecting enterprise system architectures
Data Center transformations, designs and consolidations, virtualization (Server, Storage, Desktop)
Hybrid cloud architectures and solutions - including cloud platform technologies such as vRA/OpenStack/UCS vCD, vRO, Puppet/Chef and chargeback
Architecting and solutioning of Amazon, Azure, Rackspace Cloud, and other public cloud technologies
Experience with providing cost models (TCO/ROI) for financial alternative analysis
Proven experience as a key technical resource leading development of solutions in client environments
Experience as a Director or above position in an IT leadership role in industry and/or significant consulting experience
Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons and risks) around all key technical decisions during project delivery
Proven experience in technical consulting roles
Strong interpersonal skills, customer centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity
Proven team player and team builder

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

infrastructure solutionsenterprise system architecturesdata center transformationsvirtualizationhybrid cloud architecturescloud platform technologiesAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureRackspace Cloudcost models

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsinfluence and consultcustomer centric attitudeinterpersonal skillsteam playerteam builder