Scrum Master / Project & Delivery leader

Job summary

Lead planning, prioritization, 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.

Job details

Scrum Master / Project & Delivery Leader – Data Governance Location: Toronto (3–4 days a week hybrid) Duration: 12 Months 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 programmes 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 programme enablement Executive reporting Stewardship engagement Cross-functional facilitation Continuous improvement & adoption metrics Key Responsibilities: Lead planning, prioritisation, 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 programmes 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

What you’ll do

Lead planning, prioritization, 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 mid-to-senior-level experience leading project delivery and coordinating cross-functional teams in data governance. It emphasizes stakeholder alignment, risk and dependency management, executive reporting, and enabling adoption of stewardship, metadata, and data quality practices.

Listed skills

• Continuous Improvement · Preferred
• Executive Reporting · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Scrum Mastery
• Project Delivery
• Data Governance
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Cross-Functional Facilitation
• Roadmap Planning
• Risk Management
• Dependency Management
• Executive Reporting
• KPI Tracking
• Data Stewardship
• Metadata Management
• Data Quality
• Data Literacy
• Continuous Improvement

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Data & Analytics
• Technology
• Consulting

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