- Role landed
- Solutions Architect, pre-sales
Ankur came to us as a Principal Enterprise Architect at Infosys. Stable job, good pay, nothing wrong on the surface. He had been doing the same thing for years and the growth he wanted was not available where he was.
He moved into a pre-sales Solutions Architect role, with a significant increase in compensation as well as scope.
Not every search starts from a crisis
Most stories on this page begin with a layoff or a restructuring. This one begins with someone comfortable deciding that comfortable was the problem. That is a harder decision to make and an easier one to postpone indefinitely, which is why it is worth showing.
He had been upskilling on his own account, completing courses in IoT, Azure and AI, and his own doubt was about sequencing: whether to spend longer on interview preparation before going to market. Our read was that he was ready to go out immediately, and that turned out to be right.
Both things improved, not one
“I have also got good growth in monetary terms. It was really a double bogey in that sense. Currently I am working in pre-sales as a Solutions Architect. I'm definitely happy about it.”
A functional move into pre-sales usually involves an argument about whether the pay follows. Here it did.
The search in numbers
- Left a stable Principal Enterprise Architect role at Infosys with no forcing event
- Moved into pre-sales as a Solutions Architect, with a significant pay increase
- Level: Manager and Principal. Function: Platform and Infrastructure
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