Freelance Software Engineering Consultant Jobs in Virginia

US-E-Consulting Services - AI & E - EaaS - Senior Consultant, Strategy Growth & Transformation - FY27

Position Summary
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Recruiting for this role ends on 10/1/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant in our AI & Engineering (AI&E) Engineering-as-a-Service team, you will:

• Lead end-to-end IT transformation projects for major consulting clients, focusing on innovation, technology resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and development teams to design, onboard, and optimize DevOps toolchains (e.g., GitLab, Artifactory, SonarQube), while driving measurable improvements in code quality and process automation.
• Manage project execution: Develop project plans, facilitate meetings with client and project leads, maintain project documentation, and drive delivery of key technology initiatives within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Analyze business requirements, performance metrics, and project risks; communicate recommendations and solutions with executive leadership.
• Act as a technology liaison between business stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise change management controls and business priorities.
• Mentor and enable teams through facilitation of knowledge sharing, leading virtual office hours, and supporting continuous improvement in best practices around DevOps, reporting, and service delivery.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in information sciences, technology, computer science, or related field.
• 3+ years' experience in a consulting firm, working on large scale transformation projects in the commercial sector in the strategy, growth and IT transformation space.
• 6+ years' experience in IT project management, engineering transformation, and business analysis including tech modernization experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
• Helping clients transform the SDLC to the AI SDLC using Claude, Claude Code and Cowork.
• Project management-risk mitigation, RAID items, scheduling, cost control
• Stakeholder management-bridging business and engineering groups
• Data center and application migration projects
• Business intelligence, reporting (Power BI), and analytics delivery
• Demonstrated use of AI in current project environment
• Managing on and off-shore IT project teams
• Advanced proficiency with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA) and reporting in a consulting, financial services, or technology environment.
• Experience evaluating the engineering toolchain and technical solutions approaches across programs with specific experience working on application development modernization projects on a large scale with a strategic as well as technical focus.
• Strong presentation, communication, and customer service mindset; proven ability to develop strong client relationships and deliver results across geographically distributed teams.
• Certifications: Certified Scrum Master, ITIL Foundation.
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience with large-scale technology modernization, cloud transformation, and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline improvement.
• Experience using transformation execution centers (TXC) and similar program execution platforms.
• Claude certification(s)
• Master's degree.

Professional Skills:

• Leadership: Proven team builder with ability to drive results, inspire confidence, and foster collaboration across teams and levels.
• Project Prioritization & Multi-tasking: Able to handle and switch between multiple complex projects efficiently.
• Strong analytical, documentation, reporting, and organizational skills.
• Passion for driving innovation, efficiency, and business value.

Wages + Salary

The wage range for this role 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. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. 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 $122,000 to $240,500.

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.

US-E-Consulting Services - AI & E - EaaS - Senior Consultant, Strategy Growth & Transformation - FY27

Position Summary
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.

Recruiting for this role ends on 10/1/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant in our AI & Engineering (AI&E) Engineering-as-a-Service team, you will:

• Lead end-to-end IT transformation projects for major consulting clients, focusing on innovation, technology resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and development teams to design, onboard, and optimize DevOps toolchains (e.g., GitLab, Artifactory, SonarQube), while driving measurable improvements in code quality and process automation.
• Manage project execution: Develop project plans, facilitate meetings with client and project leads, maintain project documentation, and drive delivery of key technology initiatives within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Analyze business requirements, performance metrics, and project risks; communicate recommendations and solutions with executive leadership.
• Act as a technology liaison between business stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise change management controls and business priorities.
• Mentor and enable teams through facilitation of knowledge sharing, leading virtual office hours, and supporting continuous improvement in best practices around DevOps, reporting, and service delivery.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in information sciences, technology, computer science, or related field.
• 3+ years' experience in a consulting firm, working on large scale transformation projects in the commercial sector in the strategy, growth and IT transformation space.
• 6+ years' experience in IT project management, engineering transformation, and business analysis including tech modernization experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
• Helping clients transform the SDLC to the AI SDLC using Claude, Claude Code and Cowork.
• Project management-risk mitigation, RAID items, scheduling, cost control
• Stakeholder management-bridging business and engineering groups
• Data center and application migration projects
• Business intelligence, reporting (Power BI), and analytics delivery
• Demonstrated use of AI in current project environment
• Managing on and off-shore IT project teams
• Advanced proficiency with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA) and reporting in a consulting, financial services, or technology environment.
• Experience evaluating the engineering toolchain and technical solutions approaches across programs with specific experience working on application development modernization projects on a large scale with a strategic as well as technical focus.
• Strong presentation, communication, and customer service mindset; proven ability to develop strong client relationships and deliver results across geographically distributed teams.
• Certifications: Certified Scrum Master, ITIL Foundation.
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred:

• Experience with large-scale technology modernization, cloud transformation, and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline improvement.
• Experience using transformation execution centers (TXC) and similar program execution platforms.
• Claude certification(s)
• Master's degree.

Professional Skills:

• Leadership: Proven team builder with ability to drive results, inspire confidence, and foster collaboration across teams and levels.
• Project Prioritization & Multi-tasking: Able to handle and switch between multiple complex projects efficiently.
• Strong analytical, documentation, reporting, and organizational skills.
• Passion for driving innovation, efficiency, and business value.

Wages + Salary

The wage range for this role 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. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. 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 $122,000 to $240,500.

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.