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The ideal candidate will bring deep expertisein modern application architectures, cloud-native technologies, and modernization strategies, while leading engagements from strategy through implementation and solution delivery.\nIn Modern Apps, the Principal Technical Consultant (PTC) is expected to lead teamsbuilding and modernizing web applications, mobile applications, APIs, functions(AWS Lambda/Azure Functions/GCP Functions), and related platform services. This includes using AI-assisted engineering tools such as agentic IDEs and autonomous development platforms to accelerate delivery while maintainingaccountability for architecture, security, scalability, maintainability, and measurable business outcomes.\nThe role is highly client-facing and consulting-oriented. 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Navigate client organizational dynamics and manage expectations on outcomes, timelines, and delivery risks.\n\nApply structured, hypothesis-driven problem solving to ambiguous client situations: frame the core business issues, design the analyses needed to test them, and synthesize findings into a defensible point of view - even when information is incomplete or conflicting.\n\nDevelop modernization strategies that ladder up to clients' business and digital transformation objectives, accounting for organizational readiness, change management, and operating-model implications alongside the technical roadmap.\n\nBuild and defend the business case for modernization -quantifying TCO, ROI, and risk reduction -and use the client’s cost and value drivers to prioritize candidates, sequence the roadmap, and frame trade-offs.\n\nDecompose enterprise modernization programs into pragmatic workstreams, sequencing decisions based on business value, risk, dependencies, and organizational readiness rather than purely technical considerations.\n\nContinually identify new ways to serve the client, surfacing follow-on opportunities and expanding the footprint of the engagement based on observed business needs.\n\nLead pre-sales and pursuit efforts for modernization opportunities: shape the opportunity with the client, structure the solution, scope and estimate the work, lead proposal development and technical demonstrations, and own the technical credibility of the pursuit through close. 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