AHEAD is looking for a customer facing Associate Consultant with critical thinking skills to join our Modern Data Center practice. The Associate Consultant provides onsite, hands-on client delivery which involves completing the day-to-day project tasks. They work at the direction of Principal, Senior Consultants, and Consultants to execute the project. They support team management by gathering and analyzing data, creating insights when possible. The Associate Consultant will also document decisions, risks, issues identified in working sessions, and workshops. They are focused solely on successful delivery.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery:
• Document decisions, risks and issues identified in strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops
• Provide functional analysis by gathering data to create insights that formulate solutions for client deliverables
• Provide financial analysis when the program requires it such as Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Reduction Opportunities, and cost of cloud migration
• Development of project deliverables
• Development of presentation of deliverables to client executive management
• Practice Development & Thought Leadership:
• Research technology and business solutions
• Research industry best practices
• Create a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical thinker
• Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
• Self-starter
• MBA is a plus