The ServiceNow Principal Technical Consultant Lead, in cooperation with the ESM Director, provides technical vision and leadership to the Sales and Delivery teams. The Principal Technical Consultant Lead advises teams on technical issues and their business implications using their expertise in AHEAD's core technology competencies. You will help drive the delivery of client-focused, high-quality projects, AHEAD offering development, technical pre-sales guidance, internal IP and Service Delivery Framework development, and assisting practice leadership on identifying industry trends and future areas of growth.
The ServiceNow Principal Technical Consultant Lead works with peer Principal Technical Consultant Leads, Delivery Managers, Principal Consultants, and Project Managers to ensure that clients’ business and technical expectations are met appropriately. The Storage / Data Protection Principal Technical Consultant Lead will act as coach, guide, and mentor to team members and will be responsible for the professional growth of those on their team.
Roles and Responsibilities
Manage a team of 10-15 engineers and architects:
Work with teams to build individualized career development plans
Coach, mentor, and develop direct reports, including overseeing new employee onboarding.
Lead employees to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment.
Provide effective performance feedback through employee recognition, rewards, and disciplinary action.
Actively manage bench time to support progress toward utilization targets, individual development goals, and solution development goals.
Understand sales pipeline and team capacity and capabilities and work with practice leadership to adjust staffing plans as needed
Maintain skills and certification inventory of team
Consciously create a workplace culture that supports the values and guiding principles of the organization
Foster a culture of delivering with quality, Ownership and high performance.
Build and maintain a culture of trust through open and honest feedback and accountability
Participate in pre-sales and scoping activities, building proposals, pricing, and statements of work
Work with Project Managers and the Resource Management team to identify appropriate resources for projects
Act as a key contact for projects staffed by team.
Participating in project kick-off, status, close-out, and escalation meetings as needed
Provide expert technical architectural support and guidance for solutions
Continuously improving project scoping and delivery by capturing lessons learned after each engagement and adjusting future proposals and approaches as appropriate
Work with Solutions Principals and practice leadership to define the solution development roadmap
Contribute to solution development activities directly and through coordinating time and contributions by the team
Contribute to blog posts, speak at user groups / conferences, and present at internal briefings as needed
Project Support:
Support Solution Development and External Evangelism:
Qualifications
10+ years of hands-on experience implementing [and/or] ITSM, CSM, ITBM, ServiceNow Discovery, Service Mapping, and/or Event Management etc.
Mastery in at least one ServiceNow suite.
Possess a broad base of technical skills, business acumen, and a strong desire to support the client.
Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching people.
Understand the details behind the implemented solution and having the ability to communicate the high-level vision with the client.
The ability to think past the products and create solutions to meet the business/IT needs.
Effectively communicate solutions architecture to the client, third parties, and the team.
Encompass strong listening and interpersonal skills, an ability to solve complex problems, a big picture mentality, and an aptitude to visualize the solution.
Able to foster teamwork among the delivery team(s).
Proficiency in hardware, software and/or operating systems environments.
Ability to manage a team environment.
Proven troubleshooting & problem-solving ability
Presentation and facilitation of executive level meetings, group presentations, and collaborative technical workshops.
Skills Required
- 10+ years hands-on experience implementing ITSM, CSM, ITBM, ServiceNow Discovery, Service Mapping, and/or Event Management
- Mastery in at least one ServiceNow suite
- Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching teams (including onboarding and performance management)
- Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving ability
- Ability to communicate solutions architecture to clients, third parties, and teams; presentation and facilitation of executive-level meetings
- Proficiency in hardware, software and/or operating systems environments
- Experience participating in pre-sales, scoping, proposal and statement of work development
- Ability to define solution roadmaps and contribute to solution development and external evangelism
AHEAD Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AHEAD and has not been reviewed or approved by AHEAD.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) contributions are matched dollar-for-dollar on the first $5,000 each year, with matching made each pay period and immediate 100% vesting. This structure signals above-standard employer support for retirement savings.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical options include low employee premiums for PPO and HDHP plans, and the HDHP adds employer HSA funding plus a dollar-for-dollar HSA match up to stated amounts. Dental and vision plans list very low per-paycheck costs, helping keep overall healthcare spend manageable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — No-cost telemedicine (including virtual mental health when enrolled), free Calm access for the employee and dependents, and an EAP with counseling are included. Company-paid life and disability plus voluntary protections (legal/ID, pet insurance) and other extras round out a comprehensive set of supports.
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