Agile Delivery Lead - Fintech & Gov Cloud (Remote)

Cognizant

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 68,000 - 114,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus PTO
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for a cross-functional delivery team delivering secure, compliant financial technology solutions in government cloud environments.

You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Agile delivery experience, including 3+ years as a Scrum Master or similar role.
  • Experience delivering technology solutions within regulated environments such as financial services or government cloud.
  • Strong expertise in Scrum, servant leadership, team facilitation, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
  • Remove impediments and proactively resolve delivery risks, blockers, and dependencies.
  • Coordinate execution across Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, and Compliance.
  • Monitor Agile delivery metrics such as velocity, burn-up/burndown, cycle time, and release readiness.
  • Drive transparency, delivery predictability, and continuous improvement per Scrum practices.

Skills

Agile delivery
Scrum Master
Jira
Azure DevOps
Confluence
Agile dashboards
Delivery reporting

Tools

Jira
Azure DevOps
Confluence

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for a cross-functional delivery team delivering secure, compliant financial technology solutions in government cloud environments.

You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client stakeholders.

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