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title: 'Principal Technical Consultant, Security at AHEAD'
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# Principal Technical Consultant, Security at AHEAD

- **Company:** AHEAD
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/1b326864-1547-4062-983a-837cb64c3d50

## Job description

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.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

Core Responsibilities Identity architecture and implementation leadership:

- Lead identity workstreams from discovery and current state analysis through target state architecture, implementation planning, delivery oversight, and closeout.
- Design and deliver Microsoft identity solutions with a deep focus on Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including hybrid identity patterns where applicable.
- Drive the technical approach for modern authentication and federation capabilities, including SSO, MFA, and password less.

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) delivery:

- Lead and or execute IGA-focused deliverables such as:
- Joiner mover-leaver lifecycle processes
- Provisioning and deprovisioning patterns
- Access request workflows where applicable
- Role and policy model improvement to reduce risk and increase operational clarity

Access control model design:

- Apply and communicate access control methodologies, including RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC, translating business requirements into implementable identity and authorization designs.

Client-facing consulting and execution:

- Own day-to-day technical leadership with clients: requirements sessions, whiteboarding, design reviews, implementation coordination, and executive-ready communication.
- Coordinate delivery across client stakeholders (engineering teams through senior security leaders) to align on priorities, sequencing, and execution plans.
- Produce clear, high-quality deliverables (architecture diagrams, implementation plans, runbooks, and decision documentation).

Required Qualifications

- Strong Microsoft identity architecture and implementation experience, especially Active Directory and Entra ID.
- Hands-on IGA knowledge and delivery experience in real client environments.
- Strong understanding of access control methodologies: RBAC, ABAC, PBAC.
- Strong authentication expertise: SSO, MFA, password less, with design and implementation level understanding.
- Demonstrated ability to lead implementation, not just advise; planning, execution oversight, and delivery ownership.
- Proven client-facing consulting capability: stakeholder management, clear communication, and whiteboard-ready technical leadership.

Plus scope responsibilities (nice to haves)

- Support implementations or integrations with other IAM platforms (Okta or comparable solutions).
- Contribute to or support PAM initiatives (Privileged Access Management), such as privileged access workflows, vaulting patterns, and privileged lifecycle controls, when in scope.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience implementing or supporting EntraID, Okta, or similar IAM platforms.
- PAM experience (Privileged Access Management).
- Scripting or automation exposure (PowerShell, Python) to support identity integrations and operationalization.
- Experience working in large, complex environments developing global strategies for successful implementation delivery.

What success looks like

- Clients receive identity architectures that are implementable, not theoretical, backed by an execution plan, and delivered outcomes.
- Identity workstreams are delivered smoothly with strong coordination, clear documentation, and stakeholder alignment.
- Authentication and governance controls measurably improve security posture while supporting business usability.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include: Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership

## About AHEAD

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services
- **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint.

## Products & Services
- **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)*
- **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)*
- **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)*
- **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)*
- **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)*
- **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)*
- **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)*
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)*
- **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials).
- **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape.
- **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion.
- **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.
- **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software.
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion.

## Sources
1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/)
2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/)
3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/)
4. [AHEAD Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead)

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