Principal Engineering Lead

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.

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 Dev Sec Ops  expectations.

• Define and lead engineering operations standards across teams and delivery work streams.
• 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 Dev Sec Ops  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.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering operations, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, Dev Sec Ops , or large-scale software delivery.
• Experience establishing engineering standards across multiple teams or work streams.
• 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.

• Experience supporting federal healthcare,…