Senior Scrum Master

About the position

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Senior Scrum Master to serve our diverse base of global clients. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo. This is an onsite role in Jersey City, NJ.

Responsibilities

• Scrum Master Managing up to 3 PODs
• Experience working with product owners/product managers
• Prepare and Facilitate PI Planning activities for the POD including, Facilitate Breakout Sessions, Draft and Create PI Plans
• Manage Agile Ceremonies, Iteration Planning, Team Sync, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement
• Resolve Impediments, Ensure Transparency in reporting in risks and issues in JIRA and other forums
• Manage and work to improving POD velocity, predictability, capacity planning and improvements in flow

Requirements

• Total experience 10+ years
• 5 + years of experience as scrum master
• Agile certified (SAFE, PMI ACP etc)
• Expertise in JIRA, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint
• 3 + years of experience in scrum master in BFS domain
• SAFe Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, Nexus, Waterfall & Hybrid project methodologies

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, or Jest
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Access, Excel, Word)

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