Artificial Intelligence & Engineering
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients’ achievements. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to business. Your contributions help Deloitte client service teams improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
Position Summary
Level: Senior Consultant
As a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale software solutions, lead the creation of robust pipelines and manage code deployment across environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional, global teams to translate functional requirements into effective deliverables, independently guiding and mentoring junior team members. Your role spans the full project lifecycle, including estimation, planning, execution, and tracking key metrics for analysis, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of solutions.
The Scrum Master is a key member of an Agile team, responsible for facilitating the Scrum process, coaching team members in Agile best practices, and ensuring the team’s effectiveness in delivering high-quality products. The Scrum Master acts as a servant leader, removing impediments and fostering a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing team environment.
Work you’ll do:
Lead discussions with business and functional analysts to understand requirements and assess integration impacts on business architecture. Clarify requirements and resolve ambiguities. Facilitate daily scrum meetings, manage deliverables and prepare weekly status reports for leadership review. Conduct detailed deliverable reviews. Collaborate with onsite clients, coordinators, analysts, and cross-functional teams. Design templates or scripts to automate routine development or operational tasks.
· Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
· Coach Agile Practices: Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to deliver value.
· Remove Impediments: Actively work to identify and eliminate obstacles that may hinder the team’s progress.
· Support Product Owner: Assist the Product Owner with backlog management, refinement, and ensuring clear communication of goals and priorities.
· Promote Team Collaboration: Foster open communication, collaboration, and self-organization within the team.
· Drive Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of learning, adaptation, and continuous improvement through regular feedback and process enhancements.
· Maintain Scrum Artifacts: Ensure transparency by maintaining and sharing Scrum artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burndown charts.
· Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a liaison between the team and stakeholders, ensuring alignment and managing expectations.
· Monitoring: Track and measure progress and quality against Sprint Plan, DoD, Quality, Delivery Flow metrics
The team:
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client’s needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Qualifications
Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:
- 6+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role working in POD model and facilitating collaboration across multiple PODs through events like the Scrum of Scrums.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification (SAFe Agilist good to have)
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum and scaled Agile environment (SAFe)
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams catering to complex business environments operating at scale in hybrid work environments.
- Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), aspects of project planning and estimation, risk identification, capacity and dependency resolution.
- Ability to coach and mentor team members on Agile best practices on Lean delivery practices and product delivery tools such as JIRA boards. Leading role-based trainings – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team
- Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills. Collaborate with scrum teams to achieve faster impediment resolution and dependency mitigation.
- Proficient in Agile project management tools (such as Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, and Rally), with experience building dashboards to enhance transparency of delivery metrics.
- Enable teams to deliver value by leveraging flow metrics, Objective Key Results (OKRs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Basic understanding of version control systems (e.g., GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket), CI/CD Processes, Release Management