Senior 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 Technical Consultant | Cloud & Platform Engineering based in India. This is a senior consulting and delivery leadership role within an AI and cloud-focused practice, combining client engagement, technical delivery, people leadership, and offering development. You’ll own strategic engagements from initial client conversations through executive-level readouts, ensuring scope, governance, quality, and outcomes remain on track. The role involves guiding technical discovery across multi-cloud platforms, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, applications, and data. You’ll lead a small engineering pod, coach team members, and ensure the right expertise is aligned to each engagement. You’ll also help evolve reusable methodologies, playbooks, templates, and delivery standards to make solutions more consistent and scalable. This is an opportunity for an experienced consultant who enjoys solving complex enterprise challenges while shaping both client outcomes and internal capabilities. Own client engagements end to end, from kickoff and discovery through analysis, delivery, and executive readout, acting as the primary customer contact and overall delivery owner. Define engagement success criteria, manage scope and Statements of Work, oversee change control, and maintain alignment around outcomes and delivery boundaries. Establish and run effective governance and delivery cadence, including standups, status reporting, stakeholder reviews, steering meetings, RAID management, and decision tracking. Serve as the escalation point for engagement risks, proactively resolving issues before they affect timelines, scope, quality, or customer relationships. Drive quality assurance through peer reviews, readiness checks, and consistent standards for client-facing deliverables. Lead a 2–3 person engineering pod, planning work across discovery, analysis, solution development, and executive presentations. Set goals for pod members and provide structured coaching, feedback, mentorship, and development support. Manage staffing and utilization across sold and internal projects, forecasting resource needs and maintaining a consistent delivery rhythm. Maintain strong engagement hygiene, including risk tracking, decision records, documentation, and artifact version control. Lead technical discovery and analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as platform engineering, identity, networking, security, application, and data domains. Develop prioritized technical recommendations, including effort estimates, sequencing, and practical implementation roadmaps. Translate technical findings into clear, executive-ready narratives connected to business objectives and measurable outcomes. Apply AI-driven solutions and automation to reduce operational effort, improve analysis, and accelerate delivery. Develop and maintain reusable questionnaires, scoring models, templates, methodologies, and other delivery collateral. Own and continuously improve solution playbooks, delivery standards, and offering frameworks to increase consistency, scalability, and repeatability. Partner with practice leadership to align solution standards with broader delivery frameworks and cross-functional initiatives. Requirements: 7+ years of relevant experience in technical consulting, solution delivery, engagement leadership, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline. Demonstrated experience owning complex client engagements from initial discovery through final executive presentation and delivery. Strong understanding of multi-cloud environments, with hands-on or consulting experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. Broad technical knowledge spanning cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, applications, and data environments. Proven ability to manage engagement scope, governance, deliv