Within Cognizant's Enterprise Application Services Horizontal, the Pega practice is one of the world’s largest and longest-running Pega practice — a two-decades-long relationship with Pegasystems—and a member of Pega’s “Partner Advisory Council.” Our deep experience enables businesses to tackle the unexpected and handle disruption while enhancing customer engagement.
Our service offerings are equipped with new-generation solutions, frameworks and methodologies, powered by industry best-practices & extensive knowledge repositories, all of which help Cognizant deliver unique value to our clients
Through the acquisition of new logos and expansion within existing accounts we are looking to onboard an experienced Pega Scrum Master.
Required Skills
Experience with Business Requirements gathering and analysis.
Experience with Business Process Modeling.
Experience with Change Management
Strong analytical skills and pro-active problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact with individuals at all levels within the organization.
Must have worked in an Agile/Scrum methodology – experience with Pega Express Methodology a plus.
Strong track record of customer engagement and delivery success.
Roles and Responsibilities
Facilitate the Scrum process and ensure that the Scrum process is rigorously followed by the team. This includes conducting Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
Identifying and removing any impediments that may be preventing the team from delivering value. This could include anything from technical issues to team dynamics.
Ensure transparency on the team's progress to all stakeholders. This includes maintaining a visible product backlog and burn-down chart
Ensuring clear communication between the team, the Product Owner, and any other stakeholders.
Overall management and oversight to the project to ensure overall health of the project
Manage project execution, including resources, communications, meetings, project plans, project metrics scope management.
Drive overall program plan and establish communication plan with key stakeholders.
Managing SoW’s, delivery contracts, budgets, risks, and issues
Identify continuous improvement levers.
Change-Management/Programme-Management expertise
Track and monitor project level risks.
Co-ordinate with all stakeholders on a regular basis on delivery schedule and risks, technical challenges
Manage Status reporting to customer stakeholders.
Manage Inter-work stream dependencies.
Offer key insight into risk, level of difficulty, design approaches and provide direct input into final deliverables.
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
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.
Other employment-related information
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
