Scrum Master || Houston TX || Long term

Title: Scrum Master Geospatial Intelligence, Electric Business Analytics & Operations Data Engineering

Location: Houston, Texas Onsite 4 days a week-no remote- no exceptions

Type of Hire: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning across Geospatial Intelligence, Electric Business Analytics, and Operations Data Engineering product teams.
• Coordinate Agile delivery across multiple product teams, ensuring alignment of priorities, sprint goals, cross-team dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Partner with Product Owners, GIS Engineers, Data Engineers, Business Analysts, Architects, and business stakeholders to maintain healthy backlogs and drive value-based prioritization.
• Support delivery of Enterprise GIS, geospatial analytics, operational data engineering, business intelligence, cloud data platforms, APIs, and real-time data integration initiatives.
• Drive Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and Scrum governance while coaching teams on Agile maturity and delivery excellence.
• Monitor sprint progress, team velocity, capacity, risks, blockers, and dependencies, proactively driving issue resolution and executive visibility.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including GIS, Data Engineering, Cloud, Infrastructure, Integration, Security, and vendor partners to ensure successful project execution.
• Support release planning, production deployments, implementation readiness, and post-release stabilization across multiple product teams.
• Maintain Agile dashboards, sprint metrics, burndown charts, RAID logs, KPIs, and executive reporting using Azure DevOps, Primavera P6, or similar project management and Agile Delivery tools.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication and executive reporting, ensuring transparency around project health, risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with PMO/Platform Scrum Master (RTE) and leadership teams to support project planning, resource forecasting, portfolio reporting, and governance activities across the Data & Analytics organization.
• Ensure alignment between product roadmaps, enterprise data strategy, geospatial initiatives, and business objectives supporting utility operations and critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5 10 years of experience in IT project delivery, Agile programs, or Scrum leadership roles.
• 3 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master supporting enterprise Data & Analytics, GIS, Geospatial Intelligence, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, backlog management, sprint planning, release management, cross-team dependency management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar Agile and enterprise project management tools.
• Experience supporting Enterprise GIS (Esri or similar), cloud data platforms, operational data engineering, analytics, or utility industry initiatives is highly preferred, along with excellent communication and facilitation skills.