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title: 'Senior Project Manager - Cloud at AHEAD'
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# Senior Project Manager - Cloud at AHEAD

- **Company:** AHEAD
- **Location:** Gurugram, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/77a4ff48-5f32-4dc1-aa8c-a71b63ab877e

## Job description

## Key Responsibilities

1. Project Delivery & Governance

- Plan and coordinate all aspects of AIC projects (strategy/assessments, architecture/design, implementation/execution, and transition to operations) from initiation through closure.
- Ensure service delivery success, quality, and customer satisfaction through effective project and program management practices.
- Lead project initiation activities, including confirmation of client objectives, success metrics, scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and governance model.
- Develop, maintain, and execute project plans, schedules, budgets, work breakdown structures, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs.
- Own project administration in AHEAD’s tools (e.g., PSA), ensuring accurate project setup, resource plans, budgets, billing milestones, and status updates.
- Apply change control and Project Change Request (PCR) processes for scope, schedule, and budget changes in collaboration with ELs, TLs, and Sales.

1. Stakeholder & Client Management

- Serve as a primary point of contact for assigned projects, driving clear and proactive communication with client stakeholders and internal leadership.
- Facilitate status meetings, steering committees, and executive-level updates, providing transparent views of progress, risks, decisions, and financial health.
- Align delivery with AIC and client standards (e.g., Agile, hybrid, or waterfall delivery), ensuring the ways-of-working are explicit and followed.
- Partner with Engagement Leads and Client Directors to shape a top-notch client experience, including responsiveness, expectation management, and structured escalation handling.

1. Coordination of Global & After-Hours Work

- Oversee and coordinate after-hours and weekend change windows (e.g., production cutovers, platform migrations, major releases) in partnership with US-based PMs and TLs.
- Act as the primary offshore liaison during change events when assigned, ensuring alignment with approved implementation plans, backout plans, and validation steps.
- Maintain continuous communication channels across time zones (India ↔ U.S.) so that risks, blockers, and status are clearly handed off and tracked.
- When no after-hours activities are scheduled, work aligned to India/U.S. overlap hours to independently lead small to medium AIC projects (e.g., cloud adoption pilots, data platform workstreams, application modernization sprints).

1. Risk, Quality, and Financial Management

- Identify, document, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely mitigation and escalation as needed.
- Ensure appropriate quality gates are defined and met (e.g., design reviews, test readiness, go/no-go, post-implementation reviews).
- Track and manage project budgets, burn rates, and margin, raising concerns early and partnering with ELs and practice leadership to protect both client value and profitability.
- Support PSA data hygiene by maintaining accurate time entry expectations, project end dates, budget adjustments, and revenue alignment.

1. Practice & PMO Enablement

- Model and reinforce AIC PMO standards for project hygiene, governance, and reporting, including use of standard templates, dashboards, and inspection routines.
- Contribute to practice development, including harvesting reusable artifacts (plans, RAID logs, status report templates, change playbooks) and improving delivery frameworks.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to junior project managers, coordinators, and consultants who are performing PM tasks on AIC engagements.
- Collaborate with Resource Management and Delivery leaders regarding  resource planning and capacity management, helping to structure onshore/offshore staffing models that align to AIC scoping guidelines.

1. Pre-Sales & Opportunity Support (As Needed)

- Identify follow-on opportunities and work with client-facing teams to position next-phase work informed by project outcomes and client feedback.

Must Have Skills & Experience

- 10–12+ years of progressive IT project management experience, including multi-phase engagements in at least one of the following areas:
- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) – migrations, modernization, landing zones, platform build-outs.
- Data & AI – data platform implementations, analytics/BI, AI/ML initiatives.
- Application modernization / DevOps – refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting workloads.
- Demonstrated success leading medium to high complexity, multi-stakeholder projects with significant client visibility.
- Strong working knowledge of project management standards and methods, including both Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and waterfall/hybrid approaches.
- Experience coordinating work across global, distributed teams, including offsite/offshore resources and cross-practice contributors.
- Proven ability to plan and manage after-hours or production change activities (e.g., cutovers, major releases, infrastructure or platform changes affecting production).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including experience with:
- Executive-ready status reports and presentations.
- Facilitating workshops, working sessions, and steering meetings.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Microsoft Azure DevOps boards, Atlassian Jira, Salesforce, or similar tools).
- Strong analysis, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, and financials.
- Operate with a consultative mindset, connecting delivery activities to business and operational outcomes.

## Nice to Have Skills

- Background in consulting or a services organization with AIC-style project portfolios (cloud, data, AI, application/platform transformations).
- Experience in one or more of the following:
- Cloud migration programs, landing zone builds, or modernization roadmaps.
- Data platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, Redshift) or analytics initiatives.
- DevOps / Continuous Integration (CI) – Continuous Delivery (CD) enablement or platform engineering initiatives.
- Familiarity with AHEAD-style delivery artifacts (e.g., engagement plans, outcome roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, action plans).
- PMP or Agile certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, PSM, CSM, SAFe) are a plus.
- Experience working within or alongside a centralized PMO in a global context.

## 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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