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Scrum Master

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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


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.

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.

If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] for roles based in the Americas or [email protected] for roles based in India.

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