Job Summary:
CompassX Group is a recognized leader in strategic initiatives and transformational projects. As a Project Manager/Scrum Master, you will leverage your expertise in Agile delivery and AI/ML Ops to impact client outcomes and contribute to the firm's growth.
Responsibilities:
• 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).
• Drive the adoption of AI/ML Ops practices, including version control, CI/CD for data and models, automated testing, and monitoring.
• 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.
• 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
• 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
• Working knowledge of modern architectures (Lakehouse, vector search, semantic layers) and tools such as Databricks and Jira
Preferred:
• Advanced degree or certifications like CSM, PMI-ACP, or SAFe
Company:
Business Management, IT Consulting Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Irvine, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.