Project Manager/Scrum Master – Data & Analytics

About Us:

At CompassX, our clients rely on us to lead high-priority strategic initiatives and transformational projects. Our mission is to create a community of people who come up with innovative approaches and deliver the best outcomes for our [link removed] will have the opportunity to leverage your experience, creativity, and skills to impact your clients and influence the trajectory of our firm to achieve growth for the team and your [link removed] are honored to be recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and listed as one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the [link removed] a Project Manager/Scrum Master, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage your expertise to make a tangible impact on client outcomes while contributing to the growth of our team and firm. CompassX is proud to be recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

Role Description:

Agile Delivery & Servant Leadership

• Serve as the hands-on Scrum Master for one or more teams, facilitating all core Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives), ensuring they are purposeful and outcome-oriented.

• Remove delivery impediments by coordinating proactively across IT, Security, and business partners.

• Coach Product Owners and Engineers on Agile principles, effective user story development, backlog refinement, and flow-based metrics (throughput, cycle time).

Ops Implementation

• Partner with architecture leads to align team practices with modern data platform patterns (e.g., Databricks Lakehouse, RAG, agentic automation).

• Ensure the "Definition of Done" includes operationalization requirements like observability, lineage, and documentation.

Governance, Compliance & Quality

• Ensure delivery practices support regulatory expectations (GxP/SOX) for data and AI in a life sciences context, including validation and audit trails.

• Partner with Data Governance and Security to embed required controls (policy-as-code) directly into team workflows.

• Coordinate multiple functions (IT, regulatory, operations, vendors) to provide effective project delivery leadership.

We look for our Managers to have several of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (Advanced degree or certifications like CSM, PMI-ACP, or SAFe preferred).

• 5–8+ years in Agile delivery roles supporting data, analytics, or software engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience implementing DevOps or MLOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response) for AI/ML workloads.

• Experience in Life Sciences, Healthcare, or other regulated industries is strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of modern architectures (Lakehouse, vector search, semantic layers) and tools such as Databricks and Jira

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus a generous upside variable compensation model
• Annual performance reviews that are straightforward and transparent
• PTO plus holidays plus sick time
• Sabbatical program
• Health, dental, vision, term life, AD&D
• Retirement plan with company matching
• Continuous education investments to grow your skills & knowledge
• Small firm feel and direct relationships with the Executive Leadership Team
• Opportunity to design and build a firm
• Remote working options
• Opportunity to build a professional network in your community

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