Manager, State and Local Government

Job Description

KPMG is currently seeking a Manager in Customer & Operations for our Consulting practice.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and deliver large, complex public sector and state/local government engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology services for state/local government clients
• Develop and execute methodologies and solutions specific to the public sector and state/local government industry
• Handle engagement risk, project economics, planning and budgeting, account receivables, and definition of deliverable content to help ensure buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels
• Develop and maintain relationships with senior management at state/local government agencies, positioning self and the firm for opportunities to generate new business
• Evaluate projects from a technical stance, helping to ensure that the development methods used are correct and practical; evaluate risks related to requirements management, business process definition, testing processes, internal controls, project communications, training, and organizational change management
• Manage the day-to-day interactions with client managers

Qualifications:

• A minimum of five years of management consulting experience focused in the public sector and state/local government industry as a technical architect responsible for large scale application design and architecture preferably with a state/local government agency
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in technical sciences or information systems
• Demonstrated ability to identify business opportunities, attract new business, and build lasting professional relationships with senior client executives; relevant skills in project management with hands-on experience in the full lifecycle of a project
• Experience providing enterprise architecture analysis and design services for large scale system implementation projects and with modular system component design components and COTS based products within the Health and Human Services domain
• Knowledge of supporting health and human services clients including unemployment, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid Management Information Systems, and child services Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems
• Understanding of systems development life cycle processes including experience creating testing scripts, leading user acceptance testing, and reporting on status
• Ability to travel up to 80-100%
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future