Data Strategy Senior Consultant

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Deloitte is seeking a Data Strategy Team Lead to help clients define and execute data strategies that support business transformation, decision-making, and operational improvement. This role combines strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, and collaboration with business and technology stakeholders. The ideal candidate can translate business needs into actionable data priorities and help drive measurable outcomes through data-enabled change.

Work you'll do

As a Data Strategy Team Lead on the Deloitte team, you will be responsible for:

• Define core data requirements in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders

• Standardize business definitions, metadata, and data governance documentation across priority domains

• Assess current-state data platforms, capabilities, and gaps to identify improvement opportunities

• Develop target-state data architectures and phased roadmaps that support business and transformation priorities

• Create reporting and dashboard products that support decision-making, performance monitoring, and program execution

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

• Ability to lead projects or workstreams

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

• Ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments. Our team helps organizations shape enterprise data strategies that improve decision-making, strengthen governance, and support transformation priorities. We work with business and technology leaders to define practical approaches for data management, analytics enablement, and operating model design. The team brings together strategic advisory, structured problem-solving, and execution support to help clients turn data priorities into business outcomes.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience related to the duties of the role in lieu of degree.

• Active Public Trust security clearance or the ability to obtain.

• 3+ years of experience in data strategy, data governance, data bricks, data management, analytics strategy, data architecture and enterprise transformation.

• 3+ years of experience defining business requirements and translating them into data, reporting, or governance solutions

• 3+ years of experience assessing data platforms, operating models, or governance processes

• 2+ years of experience developing target-state architectures, roadmaps, or implementation plans

• 2+ years of experience creating reporting, dashboard, or performance management products

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/ sectors you serve.

Preferred:

• 2+ years of experience in a client-facing advisory or management consulting environment

• 2+ years of experience supporting data modernization or cloud transformation initiatives

• Experience with metadata management, data quality, or master data management programs

• Experience developing executive-level presentations and client deliverables

• Experience leading workstreams in multi-phase transformation programs

• Experience with Palantir software data platforms.

• Experience with AI/ML.

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Virginia, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Virginia and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $107,700 to $179,500.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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.

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.