Product Consultant
Deloitte Consulting’s Innovation and Platforms practice is an organization within Deloitte Consulting whose goal is to build an environment and culture of continuous innovation to drive profitable revenue through the incubation of breakthrough ideas in IP assets based businesses and markets.
Innovations and Platforms houses prototyping, development and maintenance capabilities for a product portfolio that spans multiple software technologies including wearables, machine learning, advanced analytics, social/mobile, and more. Our team is responsible for designing and developing innovative products that not only augment our leading services practice but strike at the heart of our clients' business needs.
We are looking for people who share our passion for translating ideas into relevant and innovative products to solve business problems.
Work You’ll Do
The Product Consultant is responsible for applying a business lens to market needs and defining the structure for software solutions in terms of key stakeholders, high-level interactions, capabilities, user stories, and any specific business requirements. The Product Consultant is capable of decomposing moderate to complex problems into logical components that accurately capture the needs of users and depict the ideal solution.
- Research, develop, and document business architecture deliverables such as user personas, context diagrams, capability maps, detailed user stories, demo storyboard, and business requirements.
- Conduct gap analysis of current to target state business architecture (in case of existing solutions) and define roadmap and plans to achieve target state
- Collaborate with advisory support staff (business and product SMEs) and downstream teams (e.g. development, UI design) to obtain inputs, drive decisions, and solicit feedback used to develop, refine, and finalize business architecture deliverables.
- Maintain product backlog.
- Scope, plan, and drive working sessions and weekly checkpoints with management, advisory support staff, and downstream teams.
- Provide input and clarifications to downstream teams (UI designers, solution architecture, development, testing).
- Provide inputs to revise and finalize UI wireframes / mockups which will be used along with user stories and any specific requirements to design, build, and test the artifact (concept / prototype / product).
- Documenting key decisions, action items, and notes from meetings and distributes to necessary stakeholders.
- Coach and mentor the teams on methodology, frameworks, tools, and templates.
- Monitor and drive progress of documentation of business architecture deliverables against project timelines.
- Establish and perform typical scrum processes and ceremonies (e.g., stand-ups, grooming, and retrospectives).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent years of work experience
- 2+ years of Product Consultant/Business Architect experience (or equivalent)
Preferred Skills:
- JIRA
- MS Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Agile software development
- Fluent in agile: epics, themes, user stories
- Exposure to product management methodologies such as Pragmatic Institute
- Business process modeling
- User stories development
- Requirements gathering and definition
- Persona development
- Storyboarding
- Stakeholder interviewing and management
- Test case development, manual testing, and defect management
Professional Skills Requirements:
- Ability to work well with product owners, business and technical subject matter experts, product delivery managers, creative designers, technical architects, software developers, offshore delivery teams, and testers
- Ability to lead workshops with medium-large groups of diverse participants in-person and virtually
- Project management, planning, and organization
- Documentation of deliverables and meeting outcomes
- Strong sense of ownership, and responsibility for deliverables
- Coaching and mentoring of new team members
- Strong verbal and written English communication
- Highly diligent, comfortable with ambiguity and solving complex problems, and flexible with willingness to stretch comfort zones to meet product, team, and competency goals.
*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
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