Position Summary
Are you a big-picture thinker who connects the dots and thrives on anticipating the unexpected? Are you energized by helping organizations prepare for challenges to mitigate risks? If you are seeking a role that offers you the opportunity to advise our Government and Public Sector clients through critical and complex issues, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally, consider a career in Deloitte Consulting's Strategy team! Our GPS practice brings deep industry expertise, rigorous analytical capabilities and a pragmatic mindset to solve our client's most complex business problems. Join us, and play a key role in helping to design our clients' roadmap to the future.
Work You'll Do
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This Agile/Functional Lead will:
- Play a crucial part facilitating agile processes, promoting collaboration, and removing obstacles to ensure efficient and successful project delivery
- Apply functional and technical knowledge to achieve scrum goals, contributing to solutions for moderate scope and complex problems.
- Facilitate scrum events (Daily Standups, Sprint Events, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective) to ensure effective communication and collaboration within the team.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and communication between team members and stakeholders.
- Guide and coach team on Agile principles, practices, and ceremonies to foster continuous improvement.
- Assist the Product Owner in refining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure it is well-groomed and ready for upcoming sprints.
- Identify and address impediments and roadblocks that hinder team progress and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Continuously improve the team's processes and practices by implementing agile techniques and suggesting adaptations as needed.
- Support a culture of transparency, collaboration and open communication among the team members and stakeholders.
- Affect change and excels in managing stakeholders to recalibrate expectations as needed.
The Team
Strategy
Our Strategy practice brings together several key capabilities that will allow us to architect integrated programs that transform our clients' businesses, including Corporate & Business Unit Strategy, Technology Strategy & Insights, Enterprise Model Design, Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Business Transformation.
Strategy professionals will serve as trusted advisors to our clients, working with them to make clear data-driven choices about where to play and how to win, in order to drive growth and enterprise value.
Strategy will help our clients:
- Identify strategies for growth and value creation
- Develop the appropriate business models, operating models, and capabilities to support their strategic vision
- Maximize the ROI on technology investments and leverage technology and Cloud trends to architect future business strategies
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Communications, STEM or business-related field
- Active TS/SCI Clearance or higher
- 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Project Manager, with demonstrated experience managing projects, processes, and teams delivering web-based systems.
- 4+ years of experience with Atlassian Jira, Agile @ Scale (SAFe, DAD, etc.), and cloud computing
- 4+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, SC2S, and/or C2S.
- Must be in the DC Metro area and available to work onsite (Crystal City, VA and Alexandria, VA) 2-3 days per week.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Preferred:
- Previous experience with managing a technical product portfolio and leading a technical team
- Knowledgeable of program activities using Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in creating and delivering client briefings and status reports.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Experience with government consulting
- Experience processing information into written policy for client review
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Benefits
At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.
Our people and culture
Our diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our client most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work. Learn more about our inclusive culture.
Our purpose
Deloitte's purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and in our communities. We are creating trust and confidence in a more equitable society. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. We are focusing our collective efforts to advance sustainability, equity, and trust that come to life through our core commitments. Learn more about Deloitte's purpose, commitments, and impact.
Professional development
From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.
As used in this posting, "Deloitte" means Deloitte Consulting LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Requisition code: 203546