Consulting Manager, w/ Scrum Master experience (Energy & Utilities Industry))

About the position

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com. Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing! At Cognizant Consulting, we're exploring new ideas every day. We help industry-leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate technology products that create new value-by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams through implementation processes and encourage the adoption of SAFe Agile methodologies.
• Facilitate scrum meetings and manage the overall release and sprint execution in an Agile manner.
• Remove impediments and protect the team from outside influence.
• Ensure on-time sprint completion and adherence to the plan.
• Communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, manage risk, and ensure Epic Backlog deployment.
• Facilitate ART events and processes (PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums).
• Coach the Solution Train by facilitating and guiding work across all ARTs and suppliers in the Value Stream.
• Support Release Train Engineers in ensuring Epic Backlog deployment.
• Define and communicate the Architectural Runway/plan for an Agile Release Train (ART).
• Drive platform selections/integrations for an Agile Release Train (ART).
• Define and communicate a shared Digital Technology Strategy across a Solution Train.

Requirements

• Expertise in CX-Scrum Master and a strong understanding of Smart Grid Operations.
• Experience in Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong knowledge of Agile tools/boards such as Jira, Rally, Scrum, Kanban, Azure, and Service Now.
• Certifications such as CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), and SAFe Agilist.
• Excellent communication, innovation, and team management skills.

Benefits

• 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