Senior Scrum Master (Onsite)

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative 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 is someone who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative solutions.

Location: This is an onsite role working in Fort Mill, SC (no remote option)

Responsibilities:

* Lead day to day execution of one or more scrum teams or project teams

* Acts as the single voice to the business and technical community on behalf of the team.

* Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement

* Facilitate sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates to business via status reporting as well as stakeholder review sessions

* Oversees the design, development and installation of enhancements and upgrades to systems and application software.

* Manages and enforces functional policies, procedures, and quality assurance best practices.

* Manages the preparation and monitoring of budgets when necessary.

* Manages Clients and Business Stakeholders

Qualifications

* Experience working as Scrum Master for at least 2-3 years. Experience managing Agile projects.

* Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

* Experience working with globally distributed teams highly preferred

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent academic achievement;

* Minimum of seven (7) years of experience working through the requirement, design, development, QA & UAT testing, implementing and delivering in release cycles, and to customers;

* Receive and relay detailed information through verbal and written communication.

* Communicate clearly and effectively in person, by telephone, by computer and in writing.

* Good knowledge on usage of Jira.