Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery process of data platforms, integration, analytics, and reporting projects, from initial discovery to production deployment and transition into support.

• Act as the Scrum Master and Agile delivery leader for the data platform team.

• Conduct backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, design reviews, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities.

• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to establish priorities, clarify requirements, set acceptance criteria, sequence dependencies, and manage the backlog.

• Work alongside data engineers and technical leads to estimate stories, plan sprint capacity, monitor progress, identify blockers, and align resources with commitments.

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, roadmaps, milestones, RAID logs, RACI charts, stakeholder registers, decision logs, status reports, test plans, deployment checklists, and lessons learned.

• Coordinate interdisciplinary efforts across engineering, application teams, architecture, security, infrastructure, BI, governance, vendors, and business functions.

• Oversee the delivery of cloud data-platform capabilities, including data ingestion, integrations, transformations, master data management, data quality, governance, data models, and Power BI reporting.

• Manage QA and UAT processes, which encompass test planning, tester readiness, defect triage, evidence collection, sign-off, and ensuring production readiness.

• Ensure that releases adhere to change-management and deployment-governance standards.

• Identify and address or escalate risks, resource limitations, scope alterations, dependencies, and decision-making points.

• Provide status updates to project teams, stakeholders, technology leadership, and executive sponsors.

• Encourage the use of Jira and Confluence for managing stories, tracking sprints, making decisions, documenting processes, and ensuring transparency.

• Advocate for continuous improvement in data delivery and PMO practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of project or program management experience in delivering enterprise technology initiatives.

• Extensive experience with data platforms, analytics, business intelligence, integration, or cloud-based systems.

• Proven track record as an Agile Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager for data engineering, software development, analytics, or integration teams.

• In-depth understanding of Scrum practices, including backlog management, user stories, acceptance criteria, estimation, sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, velocity, and impediment removal.

• Familiarity with data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs or web services, relational databases, data warehouses or lakehouses, master data management, data quality, and reporting.

• Experience in coordinating QA, UAT, change control, deployment readiness, production releases, and transitioning to operational support.

• Advanced skills in project planning, organization, risk management, dependency management, vendor management, and stakeholder communication.

• Ability to bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical delivery details while communicating technical information clearly to senior management.

• Experience working with distributed teams, offshore development partners, consultants, and third-party vendors.

• Proficiency in using Jira and Confluence.

• Capability to effectively manage multiple concurrent initiatives and adapt to changing priorities.

• Preferred: familiarity with Databricks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: experience with medallion or layered data architectures, lakehouse patterns, semantic models, master data management, and enterprise data governance.

• Preferred: certifications such as PMP, CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Unlimited vacation for exempt employees

• Flexible working locations

• 401(k) plan with a company match

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Transgender services and fertility benefits

• Parental and caregiver leave

• Dependent benefits

• Commuter benefits

• FSA benefits

• Professional development programs such as Toastmasters

• Mental wellness tools