Scrum Master
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About This Role
The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2025.
Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
About Cognizant Consulting
To be digital, companies today must have organizational velocity approaching speed of light while providing individualized offerings that result in fanatical levels of customer satisfaction—all with laser-focused cost control.
And from applications to infrastructure, processes to operational models and interfaces to experiences—there are digital forces driving change in every part of our clients’ organization.
At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game—across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale.
Our approach is built around elevating business understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of customers and employees and by building these relationships based on trust and value.
More information?
Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/consulting
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate all agile ceremonies, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and reviews
- Own and maintain the programme plan, tracking progress across all workstreams and flagging risks and dependencies early
- Proactively manage blockers, escalating to the Delivery Manager where necessary to keep delivery on track
- Produce clear, concise progress updates and reporting for the Delivery Manager
- Support planning activities including roadmap maintenance, milestone tracking, and resource coordination
- Coordinate across multiple internal teams and external vendors to ensure alignment
- Drive continuous improvement across the delivery team
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master with strong planning and tracking capability — beyond just facilitation
- Able to own a plan, track progress, and hold teams accountable
- Experience working in cross-functional, multi-vendor programme environments
- Strong risk and dependency management skills
- Comfortable producing clear reporting and updates for senior stakeholders
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM or PSM) preferred
- Familiarity with Jira or equivalent agile tooling
- PMP or Prince2 knowledge advantageous
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