Every functional area, in every industry, is on an AI Journey. The power of machine learning to dramatically improve company key performance indicators is being proven every day. But, although we feel every large organisation is on an AI journey, the path to value is unclear.
There are three key barriers to deploying AI and machine learning at scale:
Building data pipelines that feed both the development and deployment of machine learning models
Improving consistency, reducing effort and expanding the ability of data scientists to address the growing range of business problems from prediction to prescription
Building out the necessary infrastructure to support 100s of machine learning models in production, including the necessary governance and compliance patterns.
At Cognizant we are proud to be helping our clients on their journey to AI at scale. We’ve built practices that bring together the best talent to address these key barriers, and have built unique capability to complement our people:
The ideal candidate will have strong integration and stakeholder management skills coupled with a wealth of governance knowledge within a delivery environment. Delivered multiple complex deliveries covering a number of technologies. The Scrum Master will be required to work in a team environment and will be responsible for full project life cycle including oversight of Sprint Planning, prioritization till delivery then through to service transition.
Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them
Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services
Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques
Identify and analyse scope of delivery
Document and execute the delivery plan
Manage day to day governance, financials and resourcing supporting delivery
Deliver within an Agile environment
Work within a team environment and collaborate with the client
What experience are we looking for?
Agile and Lean practices
Commercial management
Communication skills
Financial management
Life-cycle perspective
Maintaining delivery momentum
Making a process work.
Planning
Team dynamics and collaboration
Strong stakeholder management
Experience of Agile and Waterfall deliveries
Experience of managing over £1m of delivery
Financial management
Resource management
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: 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.
- Inclusion: 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, provincial or local laws.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
