Agile Project Manager
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
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 resolutionjumping into a huddle or sending a quick chat to resolve alignment issues dynamically rather than drawing out decisions over long email threads.
- Background: 57 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.
Required Skills:
Background: 57 years of technical project management Agile Delivery or Scrum Master experience heavily focused on enterprise data architecture data warehousing or analytics transformation projects. Cloud & Tools Core: Solid understanding of cloud data platforms (GCP preferred AWS or Azure etc) SQL ERPs/CRMs systems (e.g. SAP Salesforce) and expert proficiency in Agile tools (Jira Confluence Azure DevOps etc.). Location & Workspace Cadence: Must be locally based in the Chicago IL area. Ability to maintain a reliable hybrid schedule working on-site in the office Tuesday through Thursday. Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) credentials are a significant plus.