# Principal Consultant, Engineering at Udig

> United States · Principal · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Audig%3A6244595003 (read 2026-11-06).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Udig](https://alderhq.app/companies/udig)
- Location text: Nashville, TN or Richmond, VA; Nashville, TN; Richmond, VA
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Nashville, TN or Richmond, VA; Nashville, TN; Richmond, VA")
- Posted: 2024-10-22 (745 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://udig.com/careers/job-listing/?gh_jid=6244595003

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $123k–$190k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 537): p25 $203k, median $235k, p75 $279k

## Description (the employer's text)

Lead. Innovate. Grow. Make An Impact.

As a Principal Engineering Consultant at UDig, you operate at the apex of technical delivery. You define how complex engagements are structured, how AI-native engineering practices are implemented across workstreams, and how UDig builds reusable capability that compounds over time. You’re the technical anchor on the firm’s most demanding client work — and a force multiplier for the consultants around you.

### Why Top Consultants Choose UDig

- Career Growth — Own your path with UDig Elevate, offering a clear trajectory for career growth and leadership opportunities.
- Consulting with Purpose — Contribute to real solutions that directly impact clients from your first day.
- Flexibility & Balance — Hybrid work environment with opportunities for high-caliber in-person collaboration.
- Investment in You — $1,500 annual training budget, mentorship, and hands-on learning.
- Competitive Compensation — Strong salary, performance-based bonuses, and career progression.
- Comprehensive Benefits — PTO, parental leave, 401(k) match, health, dental, vision, and more.
### What You'll Do

- 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.
- 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.
- Evaluate, introduce, and standardize emerging technologies and engineering practices across UDig’s engineering discipline — including both software and data domains.
- Build reusable intellectual property: orchestration patterns, MCP connectors, governance frameworks, and delivery templates that accelerate every engagement that follows.
- Lead cross-functional technical collaboration across software, data, and platform workstreams in complex enterprise environments.
- 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.
- Mentor and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, including structured feedback, growth conversations, and hands-on technical coaching.
- Contribute to pre-sales conversations by helping frame solutions, scope engagements, and communicate UDig’s technical differentiation.
### What You'll Bring

- 10–14 years of software and systems engineering experience, including sustained leadership of engineering teams and large-scale delivery programs.
- A track record of navigating and delivering in complex, enterprise consulting environments — client relationship management, expectation setting, and solution ownership are second nature.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills — you shape decisions without relying on authority, and you make complex ideas legible to any audience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Advanced degree or equivalent experience welcome.

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