Remote Scrum Master - Agile Delivery Lead, Secure Fintech
Cognizant
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Job summary
Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead agile delivery for a cross-functional team building secure financial technology solutions for government cloud environments. You will facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, coordinate with Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, Compliance, and clients.
The role emphasizes metrics, transparency, and continuous improvement, with a remote-friendly setup within the United States and a compensation package including an annual salary of
Qualifications
- 5+ years of Agile delivery experience.
- 3+ years as Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or similar role.
- Experience delivering technology solutions in financial services, banking, capital markets, fintech, or regulated government cloud environments.
- Strong expertise in Scrum, Agile methodologies, servant leadership, team facilitation, and stakeholder management.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Agile dashboards, and delivery reporting.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and dependency management.
- Remove team impediments and proactively resolve delivery risks, blockers, assumptions, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Coordinate execution across Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, Compliance, and business stakeholders.
- Monitor Agile delivery metrics including velocity, burn-up/burndown, cycle time, defect leakage, sprint health, and release readiness.
- Drive transparency, delivery predictability, continuous improvement, and adherence to Agile principles and Scrum practices.
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Job description
Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead agile delivery for a cross-functional team building secure financial technology solutions for government cloud environments. You will facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, coordinate with Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, Compliance, and clients.
The role emphasizes metrics, transparency, and continuous improvement, with a remote-friendly setup within the United States and a compensation package including an annual salary of
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