Description

• Own overall project delivery, cadence, schedule, and quality of work products, and align scope and priorities with the Columbia business champion and leadership
• Develop and maintain the project charter, integrated plan, schedule, and release roadmap using waterfall planning practices, and manage the product backlog and sprint cadence using Scrum/Agile practices
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and steering meetings, and coordinate work across data engineering, reporting, and quality assurance teams
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and change requests, and escalate blockers and decisions to the business champion
• Track progress, hours, and budget, and provide weekly status reports and dashboards to Columbia stakeholders
• Coordinate testing, user acceptance, release, and cutover activities, and close out the engagement with a hand-off and lessons learned

Required Skills & Experience:

• Experience managing projects using both waterfall (plan-driven) and Scrum/Agile delivery methods, including hybrid approaches
• Experience with the data and analytics development lifecycle, including data warehousing, data pipelines (ETL/ELT), semantic modeling, business intelligence reporting, and data validation and reconciliation
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI, and with project and backlog management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps or Jira)
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills
• 2+ years of work experience with Business Intelligence (BI)

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree