--- title: 'Senior Consultant - Advisory at AHEAD' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-consultant-advisory-ahead-gurugram-anej4jvts1ja' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-18' --- # Senior Consultant - Advisory at AHEAD - **Company:** AHEAD - **Location:** Gurugram, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/2b20562c-66fe-44b6-bbd9-464339d6ddaf ## 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. ## Responsibilities Client Delivery: - Facilitate sections of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops - Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed - 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 - Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project - Creation and editing on project deliverables - Presentation of deliverables to client executive management - Define outcome-based success measures for assigned workstreams and track them alongside traditional delivery metrics such as scope, schedule, and budget Business Development: - Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal - Identify follow-on /expansion opportunities, co-author points of view and market-facing content, and represent AHEAD’s offerings with the same rigor and consistency they bring to client delivery. - On occasion, represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients - Build strong senior client relationships that go beyond the current engagement, including beginning to develop C-suite relationships, and facilitate to drive consensus and action — including addressing difficult client conversations and engaging senior stakeholders to reach meaningful outcomes - Assess a client’s current technology footprint to identify and prioritize value-creation opportunities that inform the broader business case. - Build and maintain basic business-case components (cost/benefit, ROI/TCO inputs) that connect delivery outcomes to the client’s commercial and strategic priorities Practice Development & Thought Leadership: - Participate in the development and enhancement of AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services - Technology thought leader and evangelist - Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards - Contribute analytical content and a client-tested point of view to at least one published thought-leadership asset (point of view, white paper, or webinar) per year - Strong understanding of digital transformation, cloud platforms, and enterprise technology strategy, sufficient to advise clients credibly on direction and trade-offs - Mentor to team members ## Qualifications - Minimum 8 to 12  years of experience as a senior information technology leader, including at least six years of executive technology consulting experience. - Graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline; MBA is a plus. - Ability to break down complex, ambiguous problems into structured, actionable workstreams - Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent, leading teams through complex technology-driven initiatives. - Working knowledge of proposal development and the consulting sales cycle, sufficient to contribute credibly to pursuits - Client relationship management, including setting and managing expectations and serving as a credible, trusted advisor to client executive and C-suite stakeholders. - Demonstrated business acumen, with the ability to understand client industries, operating models, and strategic priorities. - Executive presence and polished presentation skills, with the ability to present deliverables directly to client executive management. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong interpersonal and active-listening ability across diverse personalities and audiences - Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities 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. 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