Principal Systems Engineer

About the Position The Principal, Discipline Lead is a senior technical leadership position responsible for advancing discipline standards, best practices, documentation, training, and design quality across the firm. As a member of TEECOM’s Engineering Team, you’ll help reduce firmwide risk, strengthen project delivery, and ensure our systems scale effectively. You’ll lead through expertise and clarity—setting direction for how the discipline is practiced, guiding complex design decisions, and maintaining high standards across teams and projects. You’ll serve as the firm’s subject matter expert for your discipline, providing judgment on design challenges, conducting design and QA/QC reviews, and supporting project teams with early guidance. You’ll shape TEECOM’s technical excellence by developing standards, workflows, templates, and documentation that teams can rely on, and by ensuring these systems are consistently applied across the firm. You’ll contribute to pursuit strategy, help teams start projects with strong alignment, provide code and product research, resolve complex coordination issues, and maintain TEECOM’s design standards, templates, and GitHub documentation. You’ll support learning and growth across the firm by leading discipline training journeys, mentoring engineers and production team members, and contributing to scalable technical learning systems. This position is ideal for leaders who drive impact through systems, documentation, and technical clarity—strengthening discipline consistency, reducing risk, and enabling high-quality, scalable delivery across the firm. Leadership, Strategy, and Alignment As a Discipline Lead, your impact comes from improving the systems, standards, and workflows that drive discipline consistency, quality, and firmwide alignment. You contribute in three key ways: Lead Discipline Direction and Technical Standards You elevate design quality by defining and upholding discipline standards, templates, and workflows that teams can apply reliably. You strengthen project decisions by providing discipline-level judgment on complex or ambiguous design questions. You reduce rework and improve scalability by identifying gaps in tools and processes and driving discipline-wide improvements. Mentor and Develop Team Members Across the Discipline You build capability through clear feedback, disciplined design reviews, and targeted development. You strengthen engineering judgment by clarifying assumptions, trade-offs, and decision rationale. You enhance firmwide decision-making by advising leaders on discipline risks, implications, and strategic design approaches. You advance TEECOM’s learning system by guiding the documentation, expectations, and standards taught through training journeys. Improve the TEECOM System You strengthen firmwide consistency by ensuring discipline standards, documentation practices, and workflows are applied across teams. You elevate discipline execution by authoring clear, high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity and reduce rework. You improve cross-team alignment by working with Group Leads and Team Leads so discipline expectations drive everyday decisions and project delivery. You enhance TEECOM’s system by refining tools, removing workflow friction, and enabling scalable, efficient discipline practices. What Success in this Position Looks Like You ensure discipline standards, templates, and workflows are clear, current, and consistently applied across all project teams. You ensure discipline standards are clear, current, and adaptable to client-specific requirements while maintaining firmwide consistency. You strengthen design quality firmwide through proactive guidance, early risk identification, and effective QA/QC oversight. You define and achieve discipline priorities that advance documentation, training, and quality objectives aligned with company Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You develop engineers and production team members through mentorship that improves judgment, design capability, and adherence to best practices. You maintain scalable training resources, including training journeys and discipline guidance, that support onboarding and continuous learning. You research codes for the project delivery team and provide code interpretations, along with educating the team when codes change. You author and review high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity, reduce rework, and strengthen discipline workflows and standards. You provide timely discipline support that improves project alignment, consistency, and delivery outcomes. You enhance pursuit success by contributing discipline expertise, narratives, and strategic guidance for interviews and proposals. You elevate TEECOM’s reputation through participation in thought leadership, industry engagement, and subject matter contributions. You model TEECOM’s Core Values—Care, Trust, and Value—through collaboration, communication, and systems thinking. Responsibilities and Expectations These responsibilities and expectations represent what is required to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Annual and Quarterly Align discipline priorities, standards, and technical guidance to support company OKRs. Develop and maintain discipline standards, templates, and documentation in GitHub to support consistent delivery. Lead discipline training journeys across career levels to strengthen technical growth and cross-discipline alignment. Drive improvements to tools, workflows, QA/QC practices, technical consistency, and cross-discipline alignment. Partner with Production Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to align discipline initiatives with firmwide engineering and delivery goals. Audit and verify consistent use of discipline standards and workflows across projects, identifying gaps and recommending improvements. Conduct peer reviews and deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and reduce risk. Review lessons learned and technical risks to inform system improvements and discipline direction. Support strategic pursuits and contribute to discipline thought leadership through technical positioning, blogs, white papers, industry presentations, and content in partnership with Marketing and Client Relations. Partner with Group Leads and Team Leads to address technical skill gaps through improvements to training, tools, and workflows. Monthly and Bi-Weekly Lead discipline meetings to review lessons learned, design risks, emerging technologies, and updates to standards or workflows. Conduct discipline peer reviews and technical deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and consistency. Collaborate with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to resolve discipline challenges, coordination issues, and delivery risks. Facilitate manufacturer or industry sessions to keep teams informed about evolving solutions, products, and industry trends. Provide discipline insights, progress updates, and key risks to leadership to support engineering alignment and informed decision-making. Weekly and Daily Participate in engineering, project delivery, and cross-discipline syncs to maintain alignment on standards, quality issues, and priorities. Conduct or support discipline design reviews and provide timely technical guidance on active project challenges. Review pursuit materials and provide coaching on discipline fees, narratives, and technical positioning to support strategic pursuits. Review and author discipline documentation through Pull Requests to maintain clarity, accuracy, and consistency across TEECOM. Support onboarding and mentoring of engineers and production team members within the discipline. Provide responsive discipline expertise to resolve design challenges, coordination issues, and urgent project needs. Maintain visibility into discipline activity across Slack, GitHub, and Asana to support timely responses to technical questions, PR reviews, and documentation updates. Assess project delivery team members knowledge of their respective disciplines and identify gaps through reviews and interactions and work with them to improve their skill level. As Needed Provide discipline expertise to support strategic pursuits, fee strategy, interviews, and technical positioning. Support client meetings, executive discussions, and industry engagement requiring deep technical insight. Represent TEECOM at conferences, industry events, and professional organizations. Develop or refine tools, calculators, templates, and workflows based on emerging needs or lessons learned. Update discipline standards and documentation following major design challenges, field issues, or code changes. Partner with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to resolve complex cross-discipline challenges and delivery risks. Provide technical escalation support during complex design issues, critical milestones, or periods of increased delivery demand. Support targeted onboarding or upskilling aligned with discipline standards and training journeys. Supervisory / Mentorship / Training Responsibilities Supervisory : No formal supervisory responsibilities. This is a non-managerial leadership role focused on systems, standards, and excellence. Mentorship : Provides discipline-specific coaching and design guidance to designers, engineers, and production staff—strengthening technical judgment, consistency, and adherence to standards. Training : Develops and delivers training journeys; supports onboarding and continuous learning to ensure all staff are proficient in discipline standards, tools, and documentation practices. Accessibility : Maintains strong visibility and approachability across teams and project delivery groups, encouraging open communication and ensuring engineers can escalate discipline questions and receive timely, thoughtful support. Experience and Qualifications Education : Bachelor’s degree preferred; advanced degree (MS or equivalent) a plus. Experience : 15+ years of discipline-specific experience in AEC or related professional services. Preferred : Prior experience as a senior engineer, Project Lead, or subject matter expert responsible for QA/QC, standards, or technical oversight. Proven ability to lead discipline direction across multiple projects, elevate design quality, and drive consistency in standards, documentation, and workflows. Strong understanding of discipline-specific design, cross-discipline coordination, QA/QC practices, risk management, and delivery requirements. Demonstrated capability in mentoring senior engineers and designers, developing scalable systems, and contributing to firmwide documentation and training. Demonstrated success leading through expertise, documentation, and systems thinking rather than supervision. Industry certifications preferred or required based on discipline: CDT — preferred CCNA — plus PE — Strongly preferred, depending on the discipline PMP — plus Physical Demands These physical demands represent what is required to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed. Prolonged desk work using a computer, keyboard, mouse, and telephone. Regular reading, writing, and communication in virtual and in-person settings. Occasional travel to client sites for meetings, surveys, or inspections. Site walks may require standing or walking for extended periods, climbing stairs, and navigating construction or utility areas. Field activities may involve bending, kneeling, or maneuvering in confined spaces. May occasionally lift or move equipment weighing up to 25 pounds. Work Environment These work environment characteristics represent the conditions encountered while performing essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed. Approximately 75% of work is performed in a remote or office environment using standard office equipment. Approximately 25% occurs at client sites, including construction environments and existing facilities. Construction sites may include exposure to elevated noise levels, dust, uneven or unfinished walking surfaces, variable lighting conditions, and active construction operations. Utility rooms and similar spaces may have restricted access or may not fully comply with ADA accessibility standards. When access limitations exist, TEECOM will support coordinating reasonable accommodations with site-controlling contractor or alternative means to perform essential job functions. All accidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions must be reported immediately to the site superintendent and internally to People Operations. $170,000 - $240,000 a year This compensation will vary depending on your role-related skills, experience, knowledge, and subject matter expertise. TEECOM is committed to making sure that we are the right fit for each applicant and that each applicant is the right fit for our team. As we get to know each other throughout the interview process, the compensation may vary within the stated range. TEECOM offers a comprehensive benefits package to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents, basic and voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan with profit-sharing contributions, paid parental leave, lifestyle and legal benefits, pet benefits, and performance-based bonuses. Full-time exempt team members also enjoy flexible time off, and all employees receive nine scheduled paid holidays. Your level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas. NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Please note that TEECOM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, TEECOM will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, TEECOM explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of TEECOM. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.