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.
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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
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
