Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master

About this role

About Emerald

Emerald’s talented and experienced teams grow our customers’ businesses 365 days a year with products that create connections, deliver content, and drive commerce. We produce over 140 annual events, create and deliver content through print and digital channels, and power commerce through our seamlessly integrated in-person and digital platforms and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.emeraldx.com.

Forge (Emerald X) is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Project Manager / Agile Scrum Master to lead execution across our enterprise data platform and analytics portfolio. This role will provide project leadership and Scrum facilitation for the 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 will lead initiatives from discovery and backlog definition through design, development, QA, user acceptance testing, deployment, and closeout. The successful candidate will bring structure, transparency, and delivery discipline to a cross-functional team of data engineers, architects, analysts, product owners, business stakeholders, and implementation partners. This is a hands-on delivery leadership role, not a data engineering role, but it requires sufficient technical fluency to understand data pipelines, integrations, cloud platforms, dependencies, and release risks.

The Senior Data Platform Project Manager / Agile Scrum Master will manage multiple concurrent initiatives, facilitate the Agile operating cadence, remove impediments, maintain delivery artifacts, and provide clear communication to both technical teams and senior business leaders.

Key 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 ...