Principal Consultant

Job Description

Job Description

Principal Consultant, Technical | Public Sector

Location: McLean, Virginia
Work Model: Onsite, 5 days per week
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Up to 20%
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship Required
Sponsorship: Not Available

The Opportunity

AlignityX is partnering with a leading enterprise technology organization to identify a Principal Consultant, Technical to join its Public Sector consulting organization in McLean, Virginia.

This opportunity is designed for a highly experienced technical consultant who wants to remain close to the technology while having greater influence over solution architecture, complex delivery, technical direction, and customer outcomes .

As a Principal Consultant, you will be trusted with some of the organization's most complex customer challenges. You will work directly with customers and technical teams to understand the problem beneath the requirements, shape the right solution, navigate critical technical decisions, and lead successful implementations from strategy through execution.

This is not simply a delivery role. Your technical judgment will help determine what gets built and how.

What You'll Do

• Lead the technical strategy and delivery of complex enterprise implementations

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and internal stakeholders

• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions

• Lead solution architecture and application design decisions

• Remain hands-on with technology throughout the implementation lifecycle

• Design and guide integrations, APIs, data models, application architecture, and enterprise system connectivity

• Identify technical risks and develop practical solutions to complex implementation challenges

• Lead technical discovery sessions and architecture discussions with customers

• Guide projects through requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and optimization

• Partner closely with customer leadership, technical teams, and business stakeholders

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to consultants and delivery teams

• Establish and reinforce technical best practices across engagements

• Help customers develop the knowledge and capabilities needed to successfully own and expand their solutions

• Influence broader delivery practices through lessons learned across complex customer environments

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who combines significant technical depth with the ability to influence people, solutions, and outcomes.

Successful candidates will bring:

• Significant experience in technical consulting, enterprise software implementation, solution architecture, or a similar client-facing technical environment

• A track record of leading complex enterprise technology implementations

• Strong application architecture and solution design capabilities

• Experience with APIs, system integrations, data modeling, relational databases, and enterprise applications

• Strong understanding of modern application development concepts and practices

• Experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments

• Ability to diagnose complex technical problems and develop thoughtful, scalable solutions

• Strong executive and client-facing communication skills

• Ability to translate between business requirements and technical architecture

• Experience influencing technical decisions across customers and multidisciplinary teams

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other technical professionals

• Comfort operating independently in ambiguous or highly complex customer environments

Experience with low-code platforms, business process management (BPM), workflow automation, digital transformation, or enterprise application platforms is highly relevant.

Direct experience with the specific platform is valuable, but we are equally interested in accomplished technical consultants whose experience comes from adjacent enterprise technology environments.

What Sets This Role Apart

At the Principal level, you are not simply executing against someone else's technical direction.

You are helping establish it.

The right person can walk into a complex customer environment, quickly understand the technical and business landscape, identify what matters most, and bring clarity to difficult decisions.

You can move naturally between architecture discussions, technical problem-solving, customer conversations, and mentoring others. You know when to go deep, when to challenge an assumption, and when to simplify.

Most importantly, you still want to be close to the technology.

This is an opportunity to gain greater influence without becoming less technical .

Public Sector Requirements

Because this position supports U.S. Public Sector customers:

• U.S. Citizenship is required

• Candidates must be able to meet applicable government security and customer requirements

• Employment sponsorship is not available for this position

Location & Travel

This position is based in McLean, Virginia and requires an onsite presence five days per week .

Candidates should also be comfortable with up to approximately 20% travel , depending on customer and project needs.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation is competitive and will be based on experience, technical depth, and overall alignment with the position.

The total rewards package may include:

• Competitive base salary

• Performance-based bonus

• Equity/RSUs

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

• Paid time off

• Retirement benefits

• Professional development and career growth opportunities

Additional compensation details will be discussed during the interview process.