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Principal Consultant - Telecom

Remote - United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Jul 2026

About the role

About the Position

The Principal, Senior Consultant is TEECOM’s highest-level individual contributor—responsible for delivering large, complex, multi-discipline projects while serving as a trusted subject matter expert within your discipline. As the Project Lead, you’ll be accountable for delivering projects profitably, maintaining scope alignment, and evaluating project health every two weeks.

You’ll adjust the work plan as needed, request additional services when appropriate, escalate risks early, and maintain alignment with scope, schedule, and budget. You’ll lead technical direction, maintain design quality, and ensure coordinated, high-performance project delivery. You’ll document client-specific processes and project requirements so your team has the clarity needed to deliver consistent, predictable results. You’ll also collaborate with Group Leads, Team Leads, and Discipline Leads to uphold standards and support complex technical decisions.

Externally, you’ll strengthen TEECOM’s visibility and credibility by building trusted client relationships and serving as a senior technical advisor. You’ll enhance the firm’s presence through thought leadership—supporting pursuits, contributing narratives, participating in interviews, and developing content such as white papers, blogs, and conference presentations. Internally, you’ll mentor Designers and engineers by providing guidance, design oversight, and actionable feedback that improves project outcomes and supports professional growth. You’ll play a key role in developing the next generation of engineers and supporting technical excellence across the firm.

This position embodies deep technical capability, accountability for project success, and a commitment to developing others while strengthening TEECOM’s systems and project delivery practices.

Technical Leadership, Mentorship, and Improving the TEECOM System

As a Principal, Senior Consultant, your impact comes from the strength of your leadership and your ability to elevate the people, systems, and practices around you. You contribute in three key ways:

Technical Leadership

You shape complex technical decisions and set a high bar for design quality, coordination, and documentation across multiple projects or client accounts.
You influence peers and project leaders through expert judgment, clear technical reasoning, and sound guidance.
You deepen TEECOM’s client relationships by acting as a trusted technical advisor—communicating proactively and aligning expectations at a strategic level.

Mentor and Develop Designers and Engineers

You strengthen TEECOM’s technical bench by providing advanced coaching that builds the skills, confidence, and judgment of engineers and production staff across groups.
You expand mentees’ exposure by bringing them into client conversations, design reviews, and high-stakes decision-making.
You set expectations clearly, delegate meaningful work, and offer timely, actionable feedback—including through thoughtful participation in quarterly performance assessments.

Improve the TEECOM System

You elevate firmwide standards by leading updates to discipline documentation, templates, and workflows through high-impact Pull Requests.
You identify systemic gaps in processes or tools and propose scalable solutions that reduce rework and improve consistency across teams.
You document discipline-wide guidance, client-specific processes, and best practices that strengthen onboarding, delegation, and alignment.
You contribute to TEECOM’s learning ecosystem by shaping advanced training content and supporting knowledge-sharing across the firm.

What Success in this Position Looks Like

You deliver complex, multi-discipline projects profitably, within scope, and to TEECOM’s quality standards, producing coordinated and well-documented designs.
You evaluate project health, adjust plans, request additional services, and escalate risks early.
You make sound decisions in complex or ambiguous situations and reduce rework through disciplined QA/QC oversight.
You maintain healthy utilization and financial performance in line with firmwide targets.
You document clearly and consistently to reduce rework, prevent misalignment, and help teams move quickly with shared understanding.
You improve TEECOM’s system through high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that strengthen standards, templates, tools, and workflows—including documenting client-specific processes and deviations.
You earn client trust by defining scope clearly, supporting fee development, and participating effectively in interviews.
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