Data Scrum Master

Facilitate Agile ceremonies

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Partner with teams

• Partner with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects, Data Engineers, Analysts, and business stakeholders to support successful delivery of data initiatives.

Use Azure DevOps

• Use Azure DevOps to manage backlogs, sprints, work item hygiene, team workflows, and delivery transparency.

Manage dependencies

• Help teams manage dependencies across portfolios, programs, source systems, data engineering teams, downstream consumers, and business partners.

Create visibility

• Establish and maintain clear visibility into risks, blockers, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Track and communicate team progress, delivery health, risks, and impediments to stakeholders and leadership.

Analyze metrics

• Analyze delivery metrics and trends, using tools such as Power BI where appropriate, to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Support release planning

• Support release planning, quarterly planning, readiness reviews, and coordination across strategic initiatives and operational priorities.

Coach and mentor

• Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile principles while adapting practices to fit data-centric delivery work.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, psychological safety, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Balance priorities

• Help teams balance new delivery work with production support, data quality needs, regulatory priorities, and time-sensitive business commitments.

Drive issue resolution

• Drive issue resolution and escalation management to minimize impacts to program timelines and delivery commitments.

Adopt Product Operating Model

• Support adoption of the Product Operating Model by improving team routines, workflow efficiency, and delivery transparency.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile environments, preferably supporting enterprise-scale organizations.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban, and practical experience applying Agile principles in real delivery environments.
• Experience supporting teams responsible for data platforms, analytics, reporting, software development, technology delivery, or related technical products.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or similar Agile work management tools.
• Ability to use metrics and reporting to improve team transparency, predictability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience identifying, managing, and resolving delivery risks, blockers, and dependencies.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Comfort working with distributed, hybrid, or vendor-supported teams.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience supporting enterprise data, analytics, reporting, data engineering, or data governance teams.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs involving multiple business and technology organizations.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms, cloud technologies, data quality processes, or data controls.
• Experience in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or banking.
• Scrum Master certification, such as CSM, PSM, SAFe, or PMI-ACP.
• Experience using Power BI, Copilot, Power Automate, or similar tools to improve delivery reporting and team operations.
• Experience mentoring team members or supporting Agile maturity improvements.
• Strong storytelling skills to communicate team progress, delivery trends, and business impact through data.

Your Benefits Start Day 1

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents.
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off.
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program.
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation.

EEO Statement

• Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.