Remote Scrum Master – FinTech GovCloud Delivery Lead
Cognizant
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Job summary
Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for a cross-functional delivery team building secure, compliant financial technology solutions for government cloud environments.
You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client-facing stakeholders.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of Agile delivery experience, including 3+ years as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or similar 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 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 execution for a cross-functional delivery team building secure, compliant financial technology solutions for government cloud environments.
You will drive Agile best practices, facilitate ceremonies, manage dependencies, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client-facing stakeholders.
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