About Blueprint

Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. We help organizations turn complex challenges into meaningful outcomes by connecting strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology.

Our culture is built by people who care deeply about doing exceptional work. We set high standards, take ownership, and continually challenge ourselves and one another to be better. We work hard, support each other, and take genuine pride in what we deliver for our clients, partners, and teams.

At Blueprint, you’ll work alongside talented people with different experiences, expertise, and perspectives. You’ll have opportunities to take on meaningful challenges, expand your skills, and see the impact of what you build.

Bring your perspective. Raise the standard. Build what matters.

About the Role

Blueprint is seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to establish and guide engineering operating standards across a complex federal healthcare delivery program. This person will be accountable for improving how teams build, release, operate, and support reliable services at scale.

The Principal Engineering Lead will collaborate with engineering, product, security, platform, operations, and program leaders to create consistent practices across the delivery model. The role will connect engineering execution with continuous delivery, operational readiness, measurable reliability, and DevSecOps expectations.

What You’ll Do

Define and lead engineering operations standards across teams and delivery workstreams.
Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and release governance practices that support secure and reliable delivery.
Develop and maintain a consistent framework for service-level objectives and service-level indicators.
Define operational readiness criteria for new services, releases, and significant production changes.
Advance DevSecOps practices by integrating security, quality, automation, and operational controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Set reliability expectations and guide teams in improving service performance, resilience, observability, and recoverability.
Coordinate engineering standards across application, platform, security, and operations teams.
Identify systemic delivery and reliability risks and lead cross-team resolution efforts.
Use operational and delivery metrics to evaluate performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement.
Communicate engineering standards, decisions, risks, and progress to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Participate in proposal-related oral presentation preparation and presentation activities as required for this key personnel role.

What You’ll Bring

Demonstrated experience leading engineering operations, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, or large-scale software delivery.
Experience establishing engineering standards across multiple teams or workstreams.
Strong understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, release governance, and production operations.
Experience defining or managing service-level objectives, service-level indicators, operational readiness criteria, and reliability practices.
Experience integrating security and compliance expectations into engineering and delivery processes.
Ability to align engineering, product, security, platform, operations, and program stakeholders around shared standards and priorities.
Ability to communicate complex engineering concepts and operational risks clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Experience operating at a principal, enterprise, or program leadership level.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting federal healthcare, public-sector healthcare, or similarly regulated technology environments.
Experience leading DevSecOps or reliability improvements across a multi-team delivery model.
Experience with observability, incident management, release automation, and production-readiness reviews.
Experience using engineering and operational metrics to guide investment and continuous improvement.
Experience participating in client presentations, solution reviews, or proposal oral presentations.

Compensation

At Blueprint, we strive to offer competitive pay that reflects the value of our team members. Compensation for this role is influenced by a variety of factors, including skills, education, responsibilities, experience, and geographic market.

The anticipated compensation range is $174,300 to $205,900 USD annually, with a midpoint of $190,100. Please note that we typically do not hire new employees at the top of the posted range. Actual starting pay will be determined based on experience, skills, and internal equity. The final compensation and job title may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications.

Location and Work Arrangement

This role is primarily remote, but candidates must reside in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Northern Virginia area. Occasional onsite attendance in Baltimore, Maryland, will be required for key kickoffs and other important program activities.

Benefits

Blueprint believes that healthy, supported employees do their best work. Eligible employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package that may include:

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
401(k) retirement plan
Competitive paid time off
Parental leave
Professional growth and development opportunities

Benefits and eligibility may vary based on role, employment status, and location.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blueprint Technologies, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicant Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please contact [email protected].

About the company

Blueprint Technologies is a technology solutions firm that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation by designing and launching digital strategies, including new products, services, and business models that modernize operations and emphasize exceptional customer experiences. Its engineers and scientists identify opportunities to bring automation and intelligence to information workflows, and they deploy infrastructure that increases agility and reliability to support confident decision-making. The company builds state-of-the-art software solutions and proofs of concept that deliver immediate, tangible value for clients across multiple industries. Blueprint distinguishes itself through deep client focus, a track record of growth and delivery excellence, and a distributed team model with offices in Bellevue, WA and delivery hubs in Dallas, TX and Charlotte, NC. The firm’s goal is to help clients architect their digital futures and realize faster, more reliable outcomes.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Bellevue, Washington

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

Blueprint launched Executive Insights Engine on July 29, 2026, adding a visible product layer.
Partnerships with Superblocks on February 3, 2026 and Databricks in 2026 widen distribution.
June 2026 workforce data shows 557 employees and active hiring, signaling demand and growth.

What critics are saying

Blueprint's services depend on Databricks partner economics, which Databricks can rewrite anytime.
A 0.5% 2026 headcount decline and 104 openings signal restrained expansion.
If Databricks internalizes optimization tools, Blueprint becomes a low-margin implementation shop.

What makes Blueprint Technologies unique

Blueprint's Databricks Gold Consulting Partner status and Brickbuilder role deepen platform credibility in 2026.
Its Lakehouse Optimizer and Executive Insights Engine target cloud cost governance, not generic SI work.
The February 3, 2026 Superblocks partnership extends Blueprint from data modernization into internal apps.

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401(k) Retirement Plan
Flexible Spending Account

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How 3 telcos solved data challenges with Databricks for operational success. By Ryan Neal Telecommunications providers face massive data volumes, fragmented legacy systems, brittle pipelines, and strict governance requirements that make modernization and AI adoption difficult. Disconnected warehouses, Hadoop clusters, OSS and BSS systems, and siloed cloud environments limit visibility, increase cost, and slow innovation. At the same time, telcos must improve customer retention, optimize network performance, and reduce total cost of ownership while scaling AI initiatives. Databricks enables telcos to unify structured and unstructured data on a governed lakehouse platform, eliminating silos and creating a shared foundation for analytics and AI. With Unity Catalog, Serverless compute, Agent Bricks, and Lakebase, telcos can scale AI from isolated models to real time operational intelligence embedded directly into customer, network, and planning workflows. In partnership with Databricks, Blueprint helped telcos modernize legacy estates, implement data best practices, and operationalize AI across the enterprise. Modern data estate transformation. The problem. A global telecommunications provider was struggling with fragmented line of business applications built on legacy platforms. Data access patterns were inconsistent, governance was decentralized, performance was degrading, and infrastructure costs were rising. The CDO needed to modernize the estate while strengthening collaboration with application owners and improving measurable performance outcomes. The solution. Blueprint partnered with the CDO organization to transition critical workloads onto Unity Catalog and Serverless on Databricks. Blueprint Technologies, LLC. rearchitected applications to centralize processing, eliminated redundant compute layers, standardized governance, and implemented scalable execution patterns. The outcome. * 60 percent increase in application performance * Centralized governance and lineage across domains * Reduced infrastructure sprawl through architectural consolidation * Lower total cost of ownership through Serverless and simplified operations * Stronger partnership between the CDO organization and business application teams AI factory and intelligent retention. A regional telecom provider faced rising churn and inconsistent retention outcomes. Churn models were static, refreshed infrequently, and disconnected from frontline workflows. Customer support teams lacked timely visibility into at risk accounts and had no embedded guidance on next best offers. Blueprint implemented an AI Factory on Databricks to unify customer, billing, usage, and service quality data and standardize feature engineering and model lifecycle management. Blueprint Technologies, LLC. embedded real time churn intelligence and next best offer logic directly into support workflows, enabling explainable AI driven recommendations during live interactions. * More accurate and timely churn prediction * Real time next best offer recommendations embedded into support systems * Reduced blanket incentives through improved targeting * Measurable churn reduction and improved retention ROI Accelerated migration and operational AI. A national telecommunications provider was operating on Oracle and Informatica, facing escalating licensing costs, rigid architectures, and limited scalability for AI initiatives. Legacy pipelines were complex and tightly coupled, making modernization high risk and expensive. Using its Brickbuilder approved Accelerated Data Migration solution, Blueprint automated the conversion of complex workflows to Databricks and Unity Catalog, ensuring validated parity and centralized governance. Blueprint Technologies, LLC. then extended the architecture with Lakebase for low latency operational data access and Agent Bricks to enable AI driven contextual reasoning embedded into frontline systems. * Consolidation of legacy platforms onto a unified Databricks architecture * Improved pipeline and application performance * Reduced total cost of ownership through architectural simplification * Real time serving of churn scores, next best actions, and operational insights * AI driven contextual recommendations embedded into CRM, network, and operational systems Realizing the future of telecom data. By standardizing on Databricks and partnering with Blueprint, telecommunications providers can modernize their data estates, reduce cost and complexity, and embed AI directly into operational workflows. The result is a unified, governed, high performance platform that improves retention, reliability, and efficiency across the telecom value chain while enabling a sustainable AI driven operating model. If your organization is ready to move beyond isolated data models and start building a production-ready AI factory, Blueprint can help. Contact its team today to schedule a data estate assessment and learn how Blueprint Technologies, LLC. can accelerate your migration to Databricks. Databricks Center of Excellence Your one-stop Databricks partner. Talk to one of its Databricks experts. Share with your network. You may also enjoy. How Blueprint Informatica Migration Workbench uses Lakebase to manage workflow prioritization within the Databricks platform Unlock confident consumption with the Lakehouse Optimizer an AI-powered Augmented FinOps tool that unifies Databricks costs, forecasts spend, and delivers actionable optimization recommendations to improve performance and reduce waste.

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SIG Acquires Excelicon for IT Services

SIG has acquired Blueprint Consulting Services, LLC, doing business as Excelicon, an IT services and consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Excelicon, with over 13 years of experience, enhances SIG's capabilities in enterprise architecture, cyber policy, agile DevSecOps, data analytics, and IT modernization. Tushar Garg, founder of Excelicon, joins SIG as General Manager. This acquisition follows SIG's previous purchases of 3e Services in 2021 and eSolytics in 2023, further strengthening SIG's data transformation capabilities.