Senior Data Platform PM & Scrum Master - Flexible/Remote

Emerald; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Flexible working locations

401(k) plan with company match

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Job summary

Emerald is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Project Manager / Agile Scrum Master to lead delivery across our enterprise data platform and analytics portfolio. This hands-on leadership role requires fluency with data pipelines, cloud platforms, and release risks while guiding a cross-functional team of engineers, analysts, product owners, and business partners.

The successful candidate will drive end-to-end delivery, manage agile ceremonies, maintain artifacts, and communicate clearly

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project or program management experience delivering enterprise technology initiatives in data platforms, analytics, BI, or cloud-based systems.
• AGile Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager experience for data/analytics teams.
• Strong Scrum practices and backlog management, estimation, sprint planning, and impediment removal.
• Experience coordinating QA/UAT, deployment readiness, and production releases.
• Excellent communication with senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data platform, analytics, and reporting initiatives from intake through production deployment.
• Serve as Scrum Master and Agile delivery lead for the data platform team, promoting best practices.
• Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, standups, design reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release readiness.
• Work with product owners to define priorities, acceptance criteria, and backlog sequencing.
• Size user stories, plan sprint capacity, monitor progress, and manage risks and blockers.
• Maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, RAID logs, RACI charts, and status reports.
• Coordinate cross-functional work across data engineering, BI, governance, and security teams.
• Ensure releases follow governance and QA/UAT evidence, with proper documentation and handoff.
• Provide concise status reporting to teams, stakeholders, and executives.
• Promote Jira/Confluence usage for transparency and traceability.

Skills

Agile Scrum Master

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Data platforms

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Job description

Emerald is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Project Manager / Agile Scrum Master to lead delivery across our enterprise data platform and analytics portfolio. This hands-on leadership role requires fluency with data pipelines, cloud platforms, and release risks while guiding a cross-functional team of engineers, analysts, product owners, and business partners.

The successful candidate will drive end-to-end delivery, manage agile ceremonies, maintain artifacts, and communicate clearly