Job Title: Capital Market PM
Location: Canada
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead data engineering, analytics, and data governance initiatives within a capital markets environment. The ideal candidate will have strong project management and Agile delivery experience, along with hands-on project exposure to Databricks and Microsoft Azure.
This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, architects, business analysts, and business stakeholders, to deliver scalable data solutions supporting trading, risk management, regulatory reporting, and investment operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of data platform projects, from planning and requirements gathering through implementation, deployment, and post-production support.
- Serve as Scrum Master for Agile teams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and business analysts to translate business requirements into prioritized backlogs and actionable delivery plans.
- Drive data governance initiatives involving policies, processes, technology solutions, and governance automation.
- Coordinate with data engineers, solution architects, analysts, and external vendors to ensure successful project execution.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and delivery reports to senior leadership.
- Identify and remove delivery blockers while promoting continuous improvement and Agile best practices.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives, technical requirements, data quality standards, and project deliverables.
- Support cloud data migration initiatives from legacy on-premises platforms, where required.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in project management, with at least 3 years leading data engineering, data platform, or analytics projects.
- Proven experience managing projects involving Databricks and Microsoft Azure cloud data services.
- Demonstrated experience working as a Scrum Master within Agile delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of capital markets, including trading, risk management, regulatory reporting, or investment operations.
- Familiarity with lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, ETL/ELT pipelines, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience managing data governance projects, including governance processes, policies, technology implementation, or automation.
- Proficiency with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project and Agile management tools.
- Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or SAFe certification.
- Experience leading cloud data migration projects from legacy on-premises data platforms.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale data platforms and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Familiarity with data quality, metadata management, data lineage, and enterprise data governance frameworks.
Key Skills
- Project Management
- Scrum Master / Agile Delivery
- Databricks
- Microsoft Azure
- Data Engineering and Analytics
- Capital Markets
- Data Governance
- ETL/ELT Pipelines
- Lakehouse Architecture and Delta Lake
- Jira / Azure DevOps
