Principal Consultant

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.