Remote Scrum Master - FinTech Gov Cloud, Agile Delivery Lead
Cognizant
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Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for a cross‑functional delivery team building secure financial technology solutions for government cloud environments.
You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, 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 in a Scrum Master role.
- Experience delivering technology solutions within 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: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and dependency management.
- Remove impediments and resolve delivery risks, blockers, assumptions, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Coordinate execution across Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, Compliance, and stakeholders.
- Monitor 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 in the United States is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for a cross‑functional delivery team building secure financial technology solutions for government cloud environments.
You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable, high‑quality delivery across product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client stakeholders.
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