- Role landed
- Solutions Architect, pre-sales
Ankur came to us as a Principal Enterprise Architect at Infosys. Stable job, good pay, nothing obviously wrong. He had just been doing the same thing for years, and the growth he wanted was not on offer where he was.
He moved into a pre-sales Solutions Architect role, with a real bump in both compensation and scope.
Not every search starts from a crisis
Most of the stories on this page start with a layoff or a restructuring. Ankur's started with someone comfortable, deciding that comfortable had become the problem. That is a much harder call to make, and a very easy one to keep putting off, which is exactly why it is worth showing here.
He had been upskilling on his own, working through courses in IoT, Azure and AI, and his own worry was about timing. He wondered whether to spend longer on interview prep before going to market. Our read was that he was ready to go straight away, and that turned out to be right.
The pay followed the move, which it often does not
“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.”
Moving into pre-sales usually comes with a real question about whether the money follows the title. For Ankur 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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