Summary

Position Summary

Deloitte Global Consulting Services - Technology Project Lead (I&T) - Specialist Assistant Manager

About The Team

Global Consulting Services (GCS) works globally across practices and borders to support Deloitte's Strategy, Risk & Transactions (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T) businesses. The team is focused on offering our clients and people the global experience that's essential in today's world. Through GCS, we provide innovative solutions for cross-cultural, cross-border challenges our teams may encounter around the world. Leveraging leading-edge tools, methods, and resources, we deliver top-notch services that are applied locally while staying true to our global brand and core values.

Within the Global Consulting Services, the Delivery pillar supports and works with Deloitte Firms to standardize delivery capabilities across their offerings to provide a consistent experience and higher quality to our clients and proactively manage the increasing complexity and lower the risk in our business. The team drives standardization during scoping, estimation, and delivery. The Ascend team is part of Delivery pillar and works jointly with the US Ascend Program team. The team's key goal is bringing together the best of our firm's delivery assets and capabilities to our global network through an integrated delivery platform, thus helping our consulting practices achieve consistently high-quality delivery performance.

Overview Of The Role

The Technology Project Lead will play a pivotal role in supporting the technical platform manager during the planning and execution of product delivery and deployment of Ascend Integrated Gateway, Suites, and associated assets. With a mandate to accelerate globalization of the platform, the platform team needs to fill a lead/senior staff role to be part of the global platform technology team and work with program stakeholders on program delivery. The role will require active engagement with cross-functional teams, MF stakeholders, and execute within the SAFe framework during the SDLC.

Key Responsibilities

Core Role

Lead and coordinate specific milestone tasks with cross-functional project workstreams such as code scans, 3rd party penetration testing, business continuity and disaster recovery testing, performance testing, and other technical compliance readiness activities
Support the development of processes and controls to ensure system operations and reliability
Support the SDLC execution
Manage to plan and prepare leadership reports on progress
Facilitate and participate in meetings, identify and raise issues and ensure steps are taken to remediate
Integrate with the Global Ascend technology team and support technology lead in developing a comprehensive technology release plan
Lead production support activities and work with other workstreams on remediation during system failures
Supports O&M (minor) releases independently to ensure timely response to end user needs
Engage with global teams and stakeholders across US, EMEA, and APAC time zones
Collaborate with Enablement Leads, Program PMO, and GCS teams to gather updates, align on priorities, and ensure seamless execution of initiatives
Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing clear and concise updates, insights, and recommendations
Facilitate cross-functional meetings and discussions to ensure alignment and resolve any operational roadblocks

Requisite Core Skills

Experience in technology delivery, reliability engineering, DevOps, and deployment across the lifecycle environments
Experience in technical project management of enterprise scale cloud implementations
Experience with SAFe methodology, Agile framework from planning to delivery, certification is a plus
Understands and experienced emerging technology concepts such as Azure CoPilot, LLMs/SLMs to work with technical teams on planning activities
Experience in engaging with technology counterparts to proactively identify and address technical issues, participate in discussions with technology vendors, cloud service provides as issues are escalated and work towards resolution
Understanding and prior experience leading technical projects with cloud services and data tools
Understanding of advanced DevOps tools - CI/CD pipeline orchestration, AI/ML OPs, GitHub is a strong plus
Prior technical project/product management or business analysis is a plus

Professional Skills

Proactive, self-motivated, ability to work independently with minimal guidance and manage multiple projects
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Exceptional attention to detail, responsiveness, and strong track record of executing high-impact initiatives
Strong core consulting skills – i.e. research, financial analysis, business writing, including logical data structuring and proficiency in storyboarding techniques to derive meaningful insights

Qualifications, experience, work location, and timing

We are looking for a passionate, high energy, and self-motivated individual who is accustomed to working independently and collaboratively on small and large projects in a close-knit team.

Degree in computer science, engineering or STEM
Strong track record in leading business analysis, technology product management, or software engineering workstreams on software development projects
Work experience: 6+ years of relevant experience
Location: Hyderabad/Bengaluru
Comfortable working with team members and stakeholders across geographies and time zones
Work hours: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM or 02:00 PM – 11:00 PM (expected to be flexible with time zones)
Working from office: The individual is expected to come to office at least 2 days a week as per the work from office schedule

Our purpose

Deloitte's purpose is to make an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.

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Requisition code: 352161

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