Project Manager Scrum Master
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Role: Scrum Master / Project & Delivery leader – Data Governance
Location: Toronto (3 – 4 days a week hybrid)
Duration: Contract
As a Scrum Master/ Project & Delivery Lead in the Data Governance team, my primary accountability is to drive execution, coordination, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of Data Governance initiatives, ensuring Data Stewardship, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Accountability Framework, and Governance programs move from strategy into operational adoption while providing leadership visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes
Key areas to own:
- Delivery & execution
- Stakeholder coordination
- Governance program enablement
- Executive reporting
- Stewardship engagement
- Cross-functional facilitation
- Continuous improvement & adoption metrics
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery of Data Governance initiatives and strategic roadmap items
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including Data Stewards, Data Owners, Product Managers, Engineering, Architecture, and Business stakeholders
- Drive stewardship adoption, accountability framework implementation, data literacy, metadata management, and data quality programs
- Manage risks, dependencies, escalations, and governance-related blockers to ensure timely decision-making and execution
- Provide leadership visibility through executive reporting, KPI tracking, roadmap updates, and governance metrics
- Facilitate governance forums, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement across governance processes and tooling
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Responsibilities
Lead planning, coordination, and delivery of Data Governance initiatives, including stewardship, metadata management, data quality, and accountability programs. Align cross-functional stakeholders, manage risks and dependencies, facilitate governance forums, and report progress, metrics, and outcomes to leadership.
Requirements
The role calls for senior-level leadership in project delivery and Scrum practices, with the ability to coordinate Data Stewards, Data Owners, product, engineering, architecture, and business teams. It also requires driving governance adoption and providing executive visibility through reporting, KPIs, roadmap updates, and governance metrics.
Skills
- Project Management
- Scrum Mastery
- Data Governance
- Delivery Management
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Data Stewardship
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality
- Executive Reporting
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management
- Roadmap Planning
- KPI Tracking
- Data Literacy
- Cross-Functional Facilitation
- Continuous Improvement
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Scrum Master
- Project Management
- Delivery Leadership
- Data Governance
- Data Stewardship
- Data Owners
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality
- Accountability Framework
- Data Literacy
- Strategic Roadmap
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Executive Reporting
- KPI Tracking
- Governance Metrics
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management
- Governance Forums
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Continuous Improvement
- Operational Adoption