Principal Consultant, Engineering at UDig

<p><strong>Lead. Innovate. Grow. Make An Impact.</strong></p> <p>As a Principal Engineering Consultant at&nbsp;UDig, you&nbsp;operate&nbsp;at the apex of technical delivery. You define how complex engagements are structured, how AI-native engineering practices are implemented across workstreams, and how&nbsp;UDig&nbsp;builds reusable capability that compounds over time.&nbsp;You’re&nbsp;the technical anchor on the firm’s most demanding client work — and a force multiplier for the consultants around you.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Why Top Consultants Choose UDig:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Career Growth —</strong>&nbsp;Own your path with UDig Elevate, offering a clear trajectory for career growth and leadership opportunities.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Consulting with Purpose —</strong> Contribute to real solutions that directly impact clients from your first day.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Flexibility &amp; Balance —</strong> Hybrid work environment with opportunities for high-caliber in-person collaboration.</li> <li><strong>Investment in You —</strong> $1,500 annual training budget, mentorship, and hands-on learning.</li> <li><strong>Competitive Compensation —</strong> Strong salary, performance-based bonuses, and career progression.</li> <li><strong>Comprehensive Benefits — </strong>PTO, parental leave, 401(k) match, health, dental, vision, and more.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own technical vision and architecture across large-scale, multi-workstream client engagements — setting direction, resolving ambiguity, and making the calls that others can execute against.</li> <li>Design and govern AI-native delivery models for engagements: defining agent orchestration patterns, establishing quality governance (including Human-Above-the-Loop controls), and ensuring that AI-accelerated delivery doesn’t trade off against reliability.</li> <li>Evaluate, introduce, and standardize emerging technologies and engineering practices across UDig’s engineering discipline — including both software and data domains.</li> <li>Build reusable intellectual property: orchestration patterns, MCP connectors, governance frameworks, and delivery templates that accelerate every engagement that follows.</li> <li>Lead cross-functional technical collaboration across software, data, and platform workstreams in complex enterprise environments.</li> <li>Serve as a senior client advisor — guiding technology strategy, building trust with CTO- and VP-level stakeholders, and helping clients understand what’s possible and what it takes to get there.</li> <li>Mentor and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, including structured feedback, growth conversations, and hands-on technical coaching.</li> <li>Contribute to pre-sales conversations by helping frame solutions, scope engagements, and communicate UDig’s technical differentiation.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You'll Bring:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10–14 years of software and systems engineering experience, including sustained leadership of engineering teams and large-scale delivery programs.</li> <li>A track record of navigating and delivering in complex, enterprise consulting environments — client relationship management, expectation setting, and solution ownership are second nature.</li> <li>Deep architectural fluency across full-stack, cloud-native, and data engineering domains; you can design systems end to end and lead others to build them.</li> <li>Advanced command of AI-native engineering: you’ve designed or operated agentic workflows in enterprise level environments, understand the four-layer stack (model strategy, integration, orchestration, governance), and can articulate tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to build reusable, transferable delivery assets — not just solving problems on a single engagement, but creating patterns that make UDig better at the next one.</li> <li>Strong pre-sales instincts: you participate in discovery, frame technical approaches, and produce credible estimates under uncertainty — using range-based thinking and explicit risk assumptions rather than false precision.</li> <li>A failure-first design instinct — you plan for graceful degradation, de-risk through spikes and proofs, and build systems that can evolve without full rewrites.</li> <li>Exceptional communication and influence skills — you shape decisions without relying on authority, and you make complex ideas legible to any audience.</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Advanced degree or equivalent experience welcome.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Join UDig — Where Consulting Meets Innovation.</strong></p> <p>UDig&nbsp;is a technology consulting firm dedicated to delivering high-impact solutions that have driven client success for over 20 years. Our team collaborates directly with clients, taking a consultative approach to turning complex challenges into successful projects that deliver business value. By harnessing&nbsp;expertise, innovation, and connections, we achieve extraordinary outcomes across multiple verticals.&nbsp;</p> <p>At UDig, we’re more than consultants — we’re problem solvers, mentors, and innovators. If you’re ready to dig into your first career chapter and build alongside people who take the craft seriously, let’s talk.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-HYBRID</span><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-JS1</span></p>