Senior Principal Consultant

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.

We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Professional Services Principal Consultant and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. This will be a role working between your home office and one of our customer locations in Honolulu Hawaii.

This position is contingent on you living in Hawaii.

Progress Federal Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progress Software, a publicly held company building products that impact millions of people every day. Across the globe, Progress technology has been used to discover new medicines, run the world’s financial systems, prevent terrorism, and much more. Progress Federal Solutions focuses on servicing the U.S. government and public sector. Our primary product is a highly differentiated data management platform that helps our customers on their journey to get more value out of their enterprise data.

We enable organizations to integrate all their data and metadata, power transactional and analytical applications, and curate data for machine learning and AI. To learn more visit

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Professional Services Consultant to join the Progress Federal Solutions consulting team as a trusted technical advisor. The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of hands‑on database experience, a strong foundation in enterprise data management, and the versatility to support Progress Software solutions across integration, search, analytics, and emerging AI‑enabled capabilities, partnering closely with customers to modernize and optimize mission‑critical data platforms.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with US Government customers as a trusted technical advisor to assess current‑state data platforms and define modernization roadmaps.
• Design and implement secure, scalable architectures using Progress Software solutions across data management, integration, search, and analytics.
• Lead hands‑on delivery from proof‑of‑concept through production, including installation, configuration, automation, and operational hardening.
• Build and optimize APIs and data pipelines to support mission applications, including event‑driven and streaming patterns where applicable.
• Troubleshoot complex customer issues across application, data, and infrastructure layers; provide root‑cause analysis and remediation plans.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders, engineering, and product teams to translate mission needs into technical requirements and solution designs.
• Develop implementation artifacts (architecture diagrams, runbooks, deployment guides) and deliver knowledge transfer to customer teams.
• Mentor teammates and contribute reusable patterns, accelerators, and best practices to improve delivery quality and consistency.
• Support emerging AI‑enabled use cases (e.g., semantic search, RAG) by helping customers operationalize prototypes with appropriate evaluation and governance.

Your background:

• US Citizen required due to access needed in this role.
• Active Top‑Secret clearance with Full Scope or Counter‑Intelligence Poly.
• Located in the United States to support a role in Honolulu HI.
• Half to full‑time on‑site.
• Strong project‑based experience with No
  
  SQL, Graph (RDF triple‑stores) or relational databases.
• Strong project‑based experience developing enterprise‑grade production software.
• Project‑based experience in the following areas:
  • Programming languages such as:
    JavaScript, Type Script, Java, or Python.
  • API‑driven architectures, REST, microservices, and event‑driven or streaming patterns.
  • Containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes, including K8s platforms such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat Open Shift, Rancher, or other enterprise‑level platform.
  • Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, including common services such as EC2, S3, EBS, IAM (Amazon) or Azure…