Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master

Emerald

24d • $130,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Forge (Emerald X) is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Project Manager / Agile Scrum Master to lead execution across its enterprise data platform and analytics portfolio. The role provides project leadership and Scrum facilitation for teams building and operating Forge’s data foundation, including data ingestion and integration, data lakehouse and warehouse capabilities, master data, governance, semantic models, business intelligence, and reporting.

The role leads initiatives from discovery and backlog definition through design, development, QA, user acceptance testing, deployment, and closeout. It brings structure, transparency, and delivery discipline to cross-functional teams of data engineers, architects, analysts, product owners, business stakeholders, and implementation partners. This is a hands-on delivery leadership role rather than a data engineering role, and requires technical fluency in data pipelines, integrations, cloud platforms, dependencies, and release risks.

The Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master manages multiple concurrent initiatives, facilitates the Agile operating cadence, removes impediments, maintains delivery artifacts, and communicates clearly with technical teams and senior business leaders. The role also supports continuous improvement of Forge’s data-delivery and PMO practices while balancing governance and accountability with practical, outcome-focused execution.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of project or program management experience delivering enterprise technology initiatives, including significant experience with data platforms, analytics, business intelligence, integration, or cloud-based systems.
• Demonstrated experience serving as an Agile Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager for data engineering, software development, analytics, or integration teams.
• Strong working knowledge of Scrum practices, including backlog management, user stories, acceptance criteria, estimation, sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, velocity, and impediment removal.
• Experience managing projects involving data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs or web services, relational databases, data warehouses or lakehouses, master data, data quality, and reporting.
• Experience coordinating QA, UAT, change control, deployment readiness, production releases, and transition to operational support.
• Advanced project planning, organization, risk management, dependency management, vendor management, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to translate between business outcomes and technical delivery details and communicate technical information clearly to senior management.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams, offshore development partners, consultants, and third-party vendors.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence; experience with complementary planning and reporting tools is valuable.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with multiple concurrent initiatives and evolving priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering initiatives on Databricks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or comparable modern data and analytics platforms.
• Experience with medallion or layered data architectures, data lakehouse patterns, semantic models, customer or audience data, master data management, and enterprise data governance.
• Experience leading data-platform work in a public company, private-equity portfolio company, media, events, or another highly regulated and dynamic environment.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting M&A data integration, platform consolidation, or enterprise-wide transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data platform, integration, analytics, and reporting initiatives from intake and discovery through production deployment and transition to support.
• Serve as Scrum Master and Agile delivery lead for the data platform team, promoting effective Agile practices and continuous improvement in delivery velocity, quality, and predictability.
• Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, technical design reviews, sprint reviews or demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities.
• Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to define priorities, clarify requirements, establish acceptance criteria, sequence dependencies, and maintain an actionable backlog.
• Work with data engineers and technical leads to size user stories, plan sprint capacity, monitor progress, identify blockers, and align commitments with available resources.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, RAID logs, RACI charts, stakeholder registers, decision logs, status reports, test plans, deployment checklists, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate cross-functional work across data engineering, application teams, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, business intelligence, data governance, vendors, and business functions.
• Manage delivery of cloud data-platform capabilities, including source ingestion, API and file-based integrations, data transformation, master data, data quality, governance, data models, and Power BI reporting.
• Coordinate structured QA and user acceptance testing, including test planning, business tester readiness, defect triage, evidence collection, sign-off, and production-deployment readiness.
• Ensure releases follow Forge change-management and deployment-governance requirements, including appropriate approvals, documentation, QA/UAT evidence, communications, and support transition.
• Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, scope changes, technical dependencies, and decision points early; drive resolution and escalate when necessary.
• Provide concise, audience-appropriate status reporting to project teams, business stakeholders, technology leadership, and executive sponsors.
• Promote consistent use of Jira and Confluence for user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint tracking, decisions, documentation, and delivery transparency.
• Support continuous improvement of Forge’s data-delivery and PMO practices, balancing governance and accountability with practical, outcome-focused execution.

Benefits

• Target compensation of $130,000–$140,000 base plus bonus.
• Unlimited vacation for exempt employees.
• Flexible working locations.
• 401(k) plan with a company match.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including transgender services and fertility benefits.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Dependent, commuter, and FSA benefits.
• Professional development programs, including Toastmasters.
• Mental wellness tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed