Senior Associate Technical Consultant | Cloud & Platform Engineering

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Associate Technical Consultant | Cloud & Platform Engineering based in India. This role combines client engagement leadership, people management, technical delivery, and practice development within a modern cloud and AI environment. You will own engagements end to end, acting as the primary client contact and ensuring strong governance, delivery quality, and measurable outcomes. You will lead a small engineering pod, supporting team development, staffing, utilization, and performance. Your technical work will span multi-cloud platforms, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, applications, and data. You will also help turn technical discoveries into clear recommendations, executive narratives, and actionable roadmaps. Beyond individual engagements, you will shape reusable methodologies and offerings that improve consistency, scalability, and delivery excellence. Own client engagements from kickoff through executive readout, serving as the primary customer contact and single point of accountability for scope, governance, delivery, and outcomes. Establish success criteria, manage Statements of Work and change control, and maintain alignment between stakeholders throughout the engagement lifecycle. Lead engagement governance through standups, status reporting, steering reviews, RAID management, decision tracking, and proactive risk escalation. Ensure quality and readiness of client-facing deliverables through peer reviews, structured checkpoints, and consistent delivery standards. Lead a 2–3 person pod, coordinating discovery, analysis, delivery, and executive readout activities while ensuring appropriate staffing for each engagement. Set goals for pod members, provide ongoing coaching and feedback, and support their professional and technical development. Manage staffing and utilization across client and internal projects, forecasting capacity requirements and maintaining a consistent delivery rhythm. Maintain strong engagement hygiene, including risk tracking, decision logs, documentation, and artifact version control. Lead technical discovery and analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a focus on cloud platforms, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, applications, and data. Translate technical findings into prioritized recommendations, effort estimates, sequenced roadmaps, and executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes. Identify opportunities to apply AI-driven solutions to reduce manual effort, improve productivity, and accelerate insight generation. Develop and maintain reusable questionnaires, scoring frameworks, templates, and other delivery assets to improve consistency and scalability. Own and continuously improve Rapid Solutions playbooks, methodologies, templates, and delivery standards. Collaborate with practice leadership to align offerings with broader delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives. Requirements: 2+ years of relevant experience in consulting, engagement leadership, technical delivery, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related field. Demonstrated ability to manage client engagements end to end, including scope, governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and executive presentations. Experience leading small technical teams or project pods, with the ability to coach, mentor, set goals, and manage delivery capacity. Strong understanding of multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Practical knowledge across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, applications, and data domains. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex technical findings into prioritized business recommendations. Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, b