Consultant I
Jan 27, 2025
About this role:
Full-time
Hybrid workplace expectation
No recruiters or agencies, please
Who should apply:
You've done this: you've been a successful consultant for a small or large consulting firm.
You're known as an excellent communicator.
Thorough analysis and problem-solving is a passion.
You are extremely self-sufficient and driven.
You enjoy and are exceptionally good at working with business and technical stakeholders.
You understand the meaning and importance of achieving consensus among team members.
Thorough documentation is your default approach.
You have experience working on more than one time-sensitive project at a time.
You enjoy market, user, and technology research.
You have an engaging personality and ability to work with people of all communication styles.
APG designs and builds custom web, mobile, automation and AI digital solutions. We align stakeholders, mitigate risk, and accelerate time to production. APG is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
FL - Ft Lauderdale, FL - Miami, GA - Atlanta, NC - Charlotte
Role Overview
As a Consultant, the individual will lead software delivery teams and be the liaison between our client's Business Stakeholders and APG's Software Engineering Team. Working independently, the Consultant is capable of leading by role or influence, as well as fulfilling or supporting many different roles on a software development team including project manager, scrum master, business analyst, or functional analyst.
The primary responsibilities of this role include working with stakeholders to understand their business and technical requirements, build product roadmaps, making strategic recommendations to bolster our client's software investment, building and managing the product backlog, and successfully leading projects through their respective life-cycles.
Key Responsibilities
Lead an APG software engineering team, proactively managing issues and mitigating risks.
Serve as the functional and subject matter expert for the software we are building for our clients.
Root cause analysis.
Analysis for software specifications: user stories, acceptance criteria, process models, basic wireframes.
Project status reports and read-outs to clients.
Fast establishment as a SME for assigned technology projects.
Facilitate key meetings with well-planned agendas, activities, and outcomes.
Speak digital product development vernacular.
Test software as new features are built by software engineers.
Qualifications
4+ years of experience as a Consultant wearing the hat of Product Owner, Project or Product Manager, or Business Systems Analyst.
Bachelor’s degree.
Ability to mentor other, more junior consultants.
Experience writing various forms of technical documentation (process maps, BRDs, system diagrams, user experience, application maps, test plans, user stories, etc.).
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a wide variety of information.
Experience leading sprint planning, review, demo, and stand-up sessions.