Government & Public Services careers
Invest in your future and in your community with a career at Deloitte Government & Public Services.
Join Deloitte Government & Public Services and play a critical role in helping government leaders shape how they engage with their communities, nonprofits, and institutions.
Our team of 15,000+ professionals across the country help our clients fulfill their missions with innovative solutions that change the lives of citizens.
We value the curious, and we put professional development at the center of your career. Because we know we can only deliver industry-leading service if we have industry-leading talent.
Join a growing $5.5B practice with more than 50 years of experience serving Government & Public Services clients. Take on important challenges and make an impact.
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We’re on the forefront of change
Deloitte does more than tax, auditing, and accounting. Our Government & Public Services work is leading the way with technology-oriented solutions for government agencies and higher education clients. It’s where we put our skills to work for the community. Your expertise in cyber risk, cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, data science, and software engineering can make a tangible impact on people’s lives across the country.
GPS by the numbers
$5.5B
50 years
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100 universities
16,000
75+ offices
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We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Deliver artificial intelligence and analytics solutions that accelerate decision-making, achieve outcomes, and gain advantage. Our teams apply AI and machine learning techniques while evaluating and improving the performance of applications.
We’re looking for experienced professionals who are:
- familiar with a variety of analytics and data tools,
- at ease with new technologies, algorithms, and technology concepts,
- experienced with AI solutions and technologies, and
- conversant in AI languages and programming.
We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
CLOUD
Build Cloud solutions that are shaping the future of government and public enterprises. Our Cloud team works at the forefront of engineering, architecture, development, and administration. We help clients by integrating cloud technologies that transform information, real-time analytics, IoT, and cognitive technologies into actionable intelligence.
We’re looking for experienced professionals who:
- enjoy troubleshooting tough problems and find ways to simplify processes through Cloud,
- thrive in a highly-collaborative, diverse team environment,
- want to build innovative solutions with experimentation and learning, and
- know how to leverage cloud capacities so government agencies and public institutions can thrive in the fast-moving digital economy.
We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
CYBER
Combat the growing challenges of cyber threats by designing and implementing technical solutions that enable clients to grow and thrive. As part of our Cyber Risk division, you’ll work with the latest technology to help tackle the biggest challenges facing Government & Public Services clients.
We’re looking for experienced professionals:
- with an interest in designing solutions that address technology risk challenges,
- who want to put their technology experience to work in cyber to combat critical security threats, and
- who have practical project or work experience in the areas of IT infrastructure, systems architecture, and security safeguards.
We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
DATA SCIENCE
We’re looking for data wranglers who can gather and analyze large sets of structured and unstructured data for Government & Public Services clients. Help them make smart decisions by applying statistics, AI, analytics, machine learning, and other tools and techniques to glean insights from datasets. You’ll use your analytical expertise and social science skills to find trends and people-centered solutions.
We’re looking for experienced professionals who possess:
- strong critical thinking skills and who love digging into data,
- practical project or work experience managing data sets and providing insights derived from the data, and
- interest in expanding their repertoire and know-how of AI and machine learning models, COTS tools, programming and query languages, and visualization technologies.
We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
SALESFORCE
Join us in helping to shape the technology, services, and systems responsible for the safety, wellness, and prosperity of people across the country. Deloitte Government & Public Services implements the powerful Salesforce platform for our federal clients to drive the best possible outcomes and redefine engagement.
We’re looking for experienced professionals who want to:
- help tackle hard problems with creative firepower and artful engineering,
- creatively use technology to help enhance digital customer and employee experiences, and
- combine the power of the Salesforce platform with collaborative, next-level innovation.
We have exciting roles available on our team for people who want to apply their experiences in new ways. If you have experience in Cyber, Cloud, AI, Data Science, Salesforce, or Software Engineering, learn about the impact you can make at Deloitte. Learn more by exploring the sections below.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Be part of a software engineering team that designs, develops, and implements large-scale software applications and integrated systems. Our teams deliver a wide range of services for our government clients, including application architecture design and optimization, application modernization, business process management, and solution integration, custom application design and development, and large-scale technology delivery program efforts.
We’re looking for experienced professionals who are:
- energized by solving business challenges through the design and development of tech solutions and have a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle,
- passionate problem-solvers with an innate curiosity about technology, and
- experienced in coding and application design and development and can speak the language of both
We hire students from a variety of backgrounds to join our Government & Public Services practice across our various offering portfolios. We hire for both our Consulting and Risk & Financial Advisory practices. Learn more about each profile below.
Consulting overview
In Deloitte Consulting’s Government & Public Services practice, you will be an integral member of a client service team, collaborating with diverse and talented team members to help solve multidimensional problems, improve performance, and generate value for our clients. You can capitalize on our cross-industry presence to find your niche and build your individual brand within the organization. Setting our people up for success is our highest priority.
Business
We look for people who employ a business-first lens while solving problems and delivering practical solutions to clients. We seek candidates who demonstrate a breadth and depth of capabilities (e.g. project management, requirements gathering, data analysis, testing) and are prepared to take on a range of business and organizational challenges and assess the role technology plays. You may be a fit for this profile if you can bring an effective application knowledge, project management, and delivery approaches to advise, implement, and operate projects.
Targeted majors:
- Business, economics, public policy, government, psychology, industrial and labor relations, human resources, operations, supply chain, and other liberal arts majors
Business technology solutions
Are you interested in various technology landscapes and bringing a technology-enabled approach to problem solving through elegant configurations or amateur hacking? From visioning stages through plan execution, we seek candidates who work to inform clients’ technology decisions, facilitate the scaling of capabilities, and promote the delivery of organization vision. Candidates in this profile may improve business processes and technology-backed performance efficiencies to enhance client impact.
Targeted majors:
- STEM, engineering, information management, information systems
Solution engineering
You have a pioneer mindset when it comes to technical solutioning. You are a tinkerer, problem solver, programmer, and amateur hacker who enjoys applying these skills in their work. You enjoy rolling up your sleeves to make things work and isn’t afraid to challenge teammates and clients to push beyond conventional designs and thinking to develop deeper capabilities. Candidate in this profile are future technical architects who wants to code now and in the future.
Targeted majors:
- Computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, and other technical degrees deep in programming languages
Strategy
If you have a natural curiosity for solving problems and are comfortable with ambiguity and creating their own path, you may be a fit for our strategy profile. You will regularly employ a business-first lens while solving problems and will be able to help drive strategic transformation and deliver solutions to clients. Candidates for this profile demonstrate a breadth and depth of capabilities and are prepared to take on a range of business and organizational challenges, and assess the role technology plays.
Targeted majors:
- MBA, MPA/MPP, MPH
Risk & Financial Advisory overview
Our Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Government & Public Services practice helps agencies effectively navigate risks and opportunities—from strategic, reputation, and financial risks to operational, cyber, and regulatory risks—to gain competitive advantage. We apply our experience in ongoing operations and lifecycle events to help clients become stronger and more resilient. Our market-leading teams help clients embrace complexity to accelerate performance and disrupt through innovation.
Analytics
The insights of our professionals, combined with our specialized products and services, help clients learn how to embrace complexity and leverage their position of strength to accelerate performance.
Our analytics professionals make extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, rules-based methods, and explanatory and predictive modeling to bring insights to client issues in the financial, regulatory, forensic and transaction domains. What’s more, they are able to deploy their skillsets to help our clients across a variety of industries and business functions.
We hire into our finance analytics group and our regulatory compliance group for this profile.
Targeted majors:
- Technology: data analytics, computer science, management information systems
- Business: economics, econometrics, quantitative finance, finance, accounting, business analytics
- Math/Engineering: industrial engineering, computer engineering, financial engineering, mathematics, statistics, actuarial mathematics
Business
As an analyst, you will have the opportunity to help our clients embrace change, accelerate performance, and navigate periods of crisis or controversy and emerge resilient.
Projects may be aligned to the following areas:
- Accounting & Internal Controls: Assist clients and business unit finance leaders in solving complex financial accounting and reporting issues enabled by digital technologies to help meet regulatory and attestation requirements.
Targeted majors:
- Accounting/related business degree. A concentration in MIS, business analytics, or other business technology related areas is a plus
Cyber
As a cyber analyst, you’ll work with our diverse teams of leading professionals to help forge organizational constructs, architect, and implement cyber solutions, and help clients solve for some of today’s toughest cyber challenges so they clients can achieve their business objectives and manage operational risk in the government landscape. You’ll build on your foundations in engineering, information technology and business to design and implement business-aligned cyber risk management programs with processes and solutions that integrate strategy, risk, legal, and regulatory components.
Targeted majors:
- Cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, information security, math, decision sciences, risk management, engineering (mechanical, electrical, industrial) or other business/technology disciplines
Discovery - Data Management Solutions
Discovery professionals combine investigative skills with advanced computer labs and cutting-edge technology to offer innovative solutions to our clients' complex problems. We assist legal counsel in controlling the costs, mitigating the risks associated with the discovery process. We also leverage our capabilities to assist clients’ management of unstructured data, which helps to inform processes and ad-hoc unforeseen circumstances.
Targeted majors:
- Technology: data analytics, computer science, management information systems
- Business: economics, finance, accounting, business analytics
- Math/Engineering: industrial engineering, computer engineering, math, statistics, actuarial
Energy & Sustainability
As a member of our Capital Asset Energy Sector team, you will have an opportunity to work with energy utilities and clients around the world. Our work is mission-driven, and we help our clients achieve their goals of securing and digitizing energy supply chains, accelerating decarbonization of their energy systems, addressing climate-change risk, accelerating new technology commercialization, and enabling equitable stakeholder development in support of a clean and sustainable energy transition.
Targeted majors:
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline or concentration (energy and environment, precious minerals, sustainability)
Infrastructure & Capital
Are you interested in helping clients answer critical, transaction-based, and mission-based questions such as “how do we allocate the price paid for a business to the underlying assets?,” “how do we complete major infrastructure projects on-time and within budget?,” and “how do we make use of new technologies to improve the construction process?” If you are seeking a role that offers you the opportunity to help our clients create value and reduce their risk, consider a career in Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory’s Capital Asset consulting practice.
Targeted majors:
- Mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, construction management, or a related field of study
Explore the sectors we serve
Civil Government
Civil Government
Civil Government
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Defense, Security & Justice
Defense, Security & Justice
Trusted by all branches of the military, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice, and the greater intelligence community, we drive bold and lasting results in mission analytics, personnel, logistics, and finance.
Defense, Security & Justice
Trusted by all branches of the military, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice, and the greater intelligence community, we drive bold and lasting results in mission analytics, personnel, logistics and finance.
Federal Health
Federal Health
Federal Health
State, Local & Higher Education
State, Local & Higher Education
Tapping into our insights, people, and experience to imagine or reimagine educational organizations’ futures, assist with complex policy decisions, workforce development and retention, financial tools, and cutting-edge cybersecurity defense and preparation.
State, Local & Higher Education
Assist our clients with complex policy questions; tackling projects in children's services, integrated eligilbility, workforce development, state health, cyber risk, and finance and administration
Work, learn, and serve with purpose
Make an impact
At Deloitte, you can have a transformative effect on your clients, the industries in which they operate, the wider world, and your own career.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity and equity guide how we approach our workforce strategy, and they fuel how we operate as a business. Our diversity and equity efforts are focused on creating a meaningful talent experience for all professionals, striving for a diverse, representative workforce, and promoting processes that provide access to opportunities for all our professionals. Here we explore and analyze our current state, including data on US workforce representation, hiring, advancement, and retention.
Well-being
We understand that well-being extends beyond physical health. To be our best selves, we need to focus on all aspects of our well-being, including, physical, mental, financial, and social. That's why we empower our people to design and integrate work and life to meet their unique needs no matter where they are in their life's journey.
Meet our people
The people who make up Deloitte come from several kinds of places—just about every background and area of study, nearly every spot on the globe and source of inspiration. Meet our professionals, and see the career paths that have taken even the most ambitious of them by surprise.
Insights and thought leadership
INSIGHTS
The future of work in
government
The future of work in government
Technology and new talent models are transforming the way the world works. Here's how government leaders can navigate the transformation of work in the public sector.
INSIGHTS
Convergence of technology in government
Convergence of technology in government
A single technology is sometimes used to solve a single problem, but this can entail certain risks for governments. Instead, as technologies become more connected, their convergence becomes crucial.
PODCASTS
Breaking free from government ransomware attacks
Breaking free from government ransomware attacks
How state and local governments can prepare for - and avoid - hackers ransoming their data.
INSIGHTS
How governments can navigate a disrupted world
How governments can navigate a disrupted world
Coping with today's COVID-19 challenges and thriving in tomorrow's disruptive environment calls for enhanced capabilities in three areas: foresight, agility, and resilience.
INSIGHTS
Protecting sensitive data for the public good
Protecting sensitive data for the public good
For government, cybersecurity isn't only a challenge-it's a big obstacle to long-awaited digital transformation.
INSIGHTS
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Meet the leaders
Jason Salzetti
US Government and Public Services Industry Leader
Matt Gentile
US GPS Risk & Financial Advisory Leader
Beth Meagher
US Federal Health Sector Leader
Kimberly Myers
US Health and Science Nonprofit Sector Leader
Kathleen Purtill
US Civil Government Sector Leader
Roger Hill
US Defense, Security, & Justice Sector Leader
Alex Mirkow
US GPS Chief Talent Officer
Take the next step
Whether you are just starting a career or you are looking to take your career to the next level, Deloitte Government & Public Services has many opportunities to help you accelerate your career and make an impact.