Delivery Quality Project Management / Agile Coach (Enabling Manager)
- Full-Time
- Parsippany, NJ
- Deloitte
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Delivery Quality Project Management / Agile Coach (Enabling Manager)
Provide internal coaching to Deloitte project teams working on large, complex technology and transformation projects.
Work you’ll do
You will be focused on helping Deloitte project teams deliver projects more efficiently and effectively by leveraging pragmatic approaches to common challenges, primarily focused on the following:
- Deliver advisory and hands-on services to assist Deloitte project teams in deploying Deloitte’s implementation method and enabling solutions for project management, including traditional, hybrid, and agile delivery approaches.
- Provide guidance to project leadership as they develop their approaches, plans and processes to deliver high quality, complex technology solutions. Work directly with project leadership.
- Possess an intrinsic understanding of sound Agile and PM practices and have the ability to lead the deployment of those practices while collaborating and adjusting to specific project situations.
- Possess an understanding of and experience with typical SDLC activities such as Estimation, Process Design and/or Testing – ideally in both traditional and Agile delivery approaches
- Identify and address project team training needs based upon processes and tools being deployed
- Provide recommendations to improve use, adoption and understanding of the delivery approaches, method and enabling tools
- Identify and harvest high quality deliverables and work products to enable a model of continuous improvement
- Deliver instructor-led training courses aligned with Project Management / Agile solution focus
- Lead special projects related to area of solution focus within Delivery Quality / Delivery Excellence as needed
- Represent the vision and objectives of Delivery Excellence positively within Deloitte Consulting
- Support adoption of the offering and cross-offering delivery standards
Delivery Excellence
Deloitte Consulting’s Delivery Excellence provides an integrated approach for consistently delivering high quality results to our clients by providing comprehensive processes and tools. The Delivery Excellence organization is committed to providing our engagements and practitioners with the resources, tools, assets, and approaches they need to be world class advisors, implementors, and operators. We are looking for people who are passionate about technology and innovation and can develop ideas into products that are relevant to solve business problems.
Qualifications
Required:
- 5+ years delivery experience on large, complex projects in a consulting environment, including end-to-end participation in at least 2 projects
- 3+ years of hands-on project management experience, with experience in agile delivery approaches
- Hands-on project delivery experience in a functional or technical role
- Knowledgeable in leveraging MS Project on large, complex projects
- Experienced with using and deploying at least one Agile delivery tool
- Ability to travel 60% on average (While 60% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice.)
- Ability to think creatively and work effectively with senior project team members
- Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred:
- Experience working in a virtual environment, including collaboration with offshore / India-based team members
- Ability to work independently while receiving direction from multiple leadership areas
- Ability to be an active user of various technologies
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage deadlines while working on multiple initiatives
- Scrum Master certification (e.g. CSM, PSM)
- SAFe certification (SPC5 preferred)
- Awareness of DevOps concepts and key components
- Fluent English language skills
- Good conceptual skills
- Experience with package software delivery (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
How you’ll grow
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Benefits
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