Principal Consultant - Telecom

About The Position

The Principal, Consultant is a senior-level technical leader responsible for delivering complex, multi-discipline projects and serving as a trusted subject matter expert within your discipline. You may serve as the Project Lead on selected projects, where you'll be accountable for delivering work profitably, maintaining alignment with scope, and evaluating project health regularly to identify risks early and keep work on track. You'll lead discipline-specific design efforts, elevate quality, and ensure coordinated, high-performance project delivery across teams. You'll document client-specific processes and deviations from TEECOM standards to support onboarding, delegation, and consistent delivery. You'll strengthen TEECOM's foundations by modeling best practices, contributing to discipline documentation, authoring Pull Requests, and supporting improvements to tools, standards, and workflows. You'll collaborate closely with Group Leads, Team Leads to ensure consistent application of standards and to resolve challenges.

Technical Leadership, Mentorship, and Improving the TEECOM System

You contribute in three key ways:

• Elevate project outcomes by leading technical decisions and ensuring design quality, coordination, and documentation meet TEECOM's standards. Guide designers, engineers, and production team members by providing clear rationale, helping them navigate design challenges, and reinforcing disciplined workflows. Build trust with clients through clear communication, reliable follow-through, and a strong command of your discipline.

• Support the development of others by coaching engineers and designers, developing their judgment, and helping them improve design clarity and documentation quality. Broaden their experience by involving them in client conversations, site walks, design reviews, and documentation discussions. Accelerate their growth by setting clear expectations, delegating meaningful work, and providing timely, constructive feedback, including through participation in quarterly performance assessments.

• Contribute to improving TEECOM's systems and discipline practices by contributing to discipline standards, templates, and documentation through clear, well-organized Pull Requests. Identify workflow or coordination gaps and propose improvements that enhance clarity, efficiency, and scalability. Capture client nuances, lessons learned, and best practices to strengthen onboarding, delegation, and cross-team alignment.

Responsibilities and Expectations

• Annual and Quarterly:

  • Partner with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to strengthen delivery consistency, coordination strategy, and discipline standards across projects.
  • Maintain visibility into project financial performance, scope alignment, and delivery health, identifying risks early and recommending adjustments that protect profitability and predictable outcomes.
  • Contribute to annual business planning by identifying client needs, emerging opportunities, and discipline trends that inform TEECOM's strategy.
  • Support client relationship development through business reviews, strategic discussions, and participation in pursuits that strengthen long-term partnerships.
  • Lead or contribute to technical design reviews and QA/QC efforts that reinforce TEECOM standards, documentation clarity, and coordinated delivery.
  • Strengthen TEECOM's system through targeted Pull Requests, documentation updates, and captured lessons learned that improve discipline workflows and scalability.
  • Collaborate on workload forecasting, resource planning, and delivery standards that support cross-team alignment and delivery predictability.
  • Contribute to discipline knowledge-sharing through training sessions, internal workshops, conferences, or TEECOM University participation.

• Monthly and Biweekly:

  • Lead discipline design, coordination, and documentation efforts, ensuring alignment with TEECOM standards, client expectations, and project objectives.
  • Maintain visibility into project schedules, staffing assumptions, and scope alignment, adjusting plans as needed to protect quality, profitability, and delivery momentum.
  • Lead or participate in key client and coordination meetings, documenting critical decisions, risks, and deviations in the Design Decision Log (DDL) and project tools.
  • Conduct or contribute to design reviews and QA/QC efforts that reinforce coordination integrity and technical excellence.
  • Advance discipline standards and workflows through targeted Pull Requests and documentation updates that improve clarity and onboarding consistency.
  • Support pursuits by refining discipline scope assumptions, technical strategies, and fee inputs to align with delivery realities.

• Weekly and Daily:

  • Maintain alignment across projects by participating in coordination, client, and internal team meetings, clarifying priorities, surfacing risks early, and supporting forward momentum.
  • Lead technical guidance through design reviews, markups, and real-time feedback that strengthen coordination, documentation clarity, and delivery quality.
  • Maintain disciplined documentation across GitHub, Asana, Callback One, and the Design Decision Log (DDL), ensuring decisions, client nuances, and coordination outcomes remain clear and traceable.
  • Sustain pursuit and active project work by refining scope assumptions, design strategies, and technical direction that align with TEECOM standards and client expectations.
  • Communicate proactively with clients, design partners, and contractors to resolve issues, maintain alignment, and keep projects moving forward.
  • Monitor project health, including scope alignment, schedules, deliverable quality, and coordination readiness, and recommend adjustments when risks emerge.
  • Execute discipline design, coordination, and technical decision-making with strong judgment while reinforcing TEECOM workflows and documentation practices.
  • Maintain accurate time, expense, and project updates that support forecasting, billing, and delivery visibility.

• As Needed:

  • Support Additional Service Agreements (ASAs), scope adjustments, and proposal development to maintain alignment between delivery realities and contractual expectations.
  • Strengthen client relationships by participating in strategic discussions, industry events, and outreach that supports long-term partnerships and future opportunities.
  • Contribute to recruiting, mentoring, and team development through interviews, coaching, and participation in internal initiatives that strengthen TEECOM's discipline capability.
  • Conduct site visits, field verifications, and programming sessions as required, documenting findings clearly to support coordinated delivery.
  • Contribute to TEECOM's thought leadership and marketing efforts by sharing technical insights, lessons learned, or project-based content.
  • Support cross-team delivery during high-demand periods or complex project phases to maintain firmwide alignment and momentum.

• Supervisory / Mentorship / Training Responsibilities:

  • When serving as a Mentor, you provide structured coaching and quarterly performance feedback for assigned mentees. You support discipline execution across projects by aligning designers, engineers, and production team members with priorities, scope, and TEECOM standards, while surfacing dependencies, risks, and resourcing needs to Project Leads, Group Leads, or Team Leads for broader action.
  • Provide advanced technical guidance and design direction to designers, engineers, and production team members. When paired as a Mentor, you broaden their experience through design reviews, client discussions, and complex coordination challenges, reinforcing strong engineering judgment, documentation habits, and disciplined workflows.
  • Contribute to discipline training by sharing lessons learned, participating in internal reviews, and supporting the development of training resources that improve technical consistency and delivery quality across teams.

Experience and Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical leadership role.

• Skills: Proficiency in relevant software tools, excellent communication skills, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and a strong understanding of project management methodologies.