Remote Scrum Master - FinTech GovCloud Delivery Lead

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 68,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

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 delivery for a cross-functional team building secure, compliant financial technology solutions for government cloud environments. The role drives Agile best practices, facilitates ceremonies, removes blockers, and ensures predictable, high-quality delivery with product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client stakeholders.

This remote position is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with emphasis on collaboration,

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.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

Servant leadership

Team facilitation

Stakeholder management

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Agile dashboards

Delivery reporting

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery for a cross-functional team building secure, compliant financial technology solutions for government cloud environments. The role drives Agile best practices, facilitates ceremonies, removes blockers, and ensures predictable, high-quality delivery with product, engineering, QA, security, compliance, and client stakeholders.

This remote position is open to qualified applicants in the United States, with emphasis on collaboration,