Product Owner / Scrum Master

Job Title: Product Owner / Scrum Master Location: Richmond, VA Hybird Job description: Drive end-to-end Agile delivery for Data platforms, Analytics, Reporting, Dashboards, and Data Engineering initiatives. Perform a hybrid role combining Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Business Systems Analysis (BSA) responsibilities. Own and manage the product backlog for Data & Analytics projects. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business objectives, KPIs, and data requirements. Translate business needs into well-defined epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Prioritize backlog items based on business value, dependencies, data readiness, and regulatory requirements. Define release goals and support product roadmap planning for data initiatives. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. Coach teams on Agile best practices and foster continuous improvement. Identify and remove delivery impediments related to data dependencies, environments, access, and cross-team coordination. Monitor and report Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, release progress, and team capacity. Elicit, analyze, and document functional and data-related business requirements. Define data rules, transformations, validation logic, and reporting requirements with stakeholders. Support functional walkthroughs, story validation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning. Ensure clear documentation of data sources, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Act as the functional liaison between business users and Data Engineering/BI teams. Coordinate with business, product, data engineering, QA, and leadership teams to ensure successful project delivery. Manage cross-team dependencies and communicate project status, risks, issues, mitigations, and release readiness. Support governance activities, planning processes, and executive-level communications. Required Qualifications 7+ years of experience in IT delivery with strong Agile project experience. Proven experience as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master. Strong exposure to Data & Analytics domains, including Data Engineering, BI, Reporting, and Dashboards. Hands-on experience in requirements analysis and BSA activities. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Experience using Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent. #J-18808-Ljbffr Creative Solutions Services, LLC