Agile Project Manager

Hazel Seybert Consulting; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Hazel Seybert Consulting is looking for an Agile Project Manager for a 3-month Temp-to-Perm contract in Chicago, IL. The role involves leading scrum delivery, managing cross-functional workflows, and ensuring a scalable enterprise data foundation.

Requirements include 5–7+ years of technical project management experience and a strong background in cloud data platforms like GCP and AWS. The position also includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of technical project management experience.
• Expert knowledge of cloud data platforms and Agile tools.
• Leadership experience at the Director/Sr. Director level.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-ups and manage sprint cycles.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business and technical teams.
• Define and manage project schedules and KPIs.
• Mitigate risks and manage dependencies proactively.

Skills

Technical project management

Agile Delivery

Scrum Master

Leadership at Director/Sr. Director level

Cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)

Education

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Job description

Chicago, United States | Posted on 06/16/2026

We are Hazel Seybert Consulting - Aboutique consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders and their teams transform their business, particularly in the area of analytics and project management.

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking an Agile Project Manager for a 3-month Temp-to-Perm contract role in Chicago, IL.

Our client is currently modernizing their business through a targeted portfolio of technology initiatives. A critical pillar of this effort is an enterprise‑wide project to scale their centralized data repository—the core 'source of truth' powering corporate reporting and insights. Walking into this role, you will drive scrum delivery and bridge the gap between technical execution and business intent. By orchestrating workflows across data engineering pods, business leads, and semantic layer leads, you will ensure the enterprise data foundation is scalable, governed, and ready for high‑impact analytics.

Important Location Requirement: This role is open only to individuals located in the Chicago, IL area. It operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring you to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday.

What You Will Do

• Agile/Scrum Leadership: Facilitate daily stand‑ups, end‑of‑day scrum check‑ins, and manage structured 2‑week sprint cycles across parallel technical and business‑facing streams.
• Cross‑Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary connective tissue between the Business Leads (defining data requirements), Data Engineers (building the ingestion pipelines), and Semantic Layer Leads (structuring data for performance and accessibility).
• Execution & Delivery: Shepherd the ingestion, pipelining, and modeling of new enterprise data sources (e.g., integrating SAP, Salesforce) into the centralized cloud data foundation.
• Semantic & Data Scaling: Coordinate the deepening and optimization of established data domains with a heavy focus on data quality, standard definition mapping, metrics governance, and business‑facing consumption layers.
• End‑to‑End Project Governance: Define, track, and manage comprehensive project schedules, critical path milestones, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure predictable delivery timelines.
• Scope & Resource Management: Monitor project scope ruthlessly to prevent scope creep, managing technical backlog refinement and ensuring resources are optimally allocated across technical pods.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify technical roadblocks, map cross‑functional dependencies between engineering and semantic modeling, and deliver actionable, data‑driven status updates to project leadership.
• Communication & Reporting: Serve as the central point of contact for project status, translating technical velocity and delivery metrics into clear, structured progress reports for stakeholders and leadership.
• Culture Alignment: Drive a culture of immediate resolution—jumping into a huddle or sending a quick chat to resolve alignment issues dynamically rather than drawing out decisions over long email threads.

Requirements

• Background: 5–7+ years of technical project management, Agile Delivery, or Scrum Master experience.
• Cloud & Tools Core: Understanding of cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure etc.), understanding of ERPs/CRMs (e.g., SAP, Salesforce, D365), and expert proficiency in Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Leadership Experience: Must have proven situation leadership at the Director/Sr. Director level.
• Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or Project Management Professional (PMP) credentials are a significant plus.

The client offers: Comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) with match, employee assistance programs, paid time off, paid sick time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and professional development opportunities.