Description
Scrum Master – Commercial Banking experience (payments/ cash management background)
Locations: San Francisco, Palo Alto, Chicago, Plano Texas, Dallas (Onsite/hybrid)
On-site at the client location minimum 2 – 3 days / week for the duration of the project
ABOUT US
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com .
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program, and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!
The Role
Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Scrum Masters to join our team while we work on an exciting platform modernization engagement. This role is on-site at a client location.
Do you want to deliver best-in-class digital products for our most innovative clients? The Digital Commercial Bank Product team is responsible for defining and executing the digital strategy for the firm’s commercial bank clients. As a Scrum Master you will drive Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. You will work closely with Agility Leads, Technical Project Managers, and senior stakeholders.
We’re looking for Senior Consultants/Managers who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities
• Implement deliver agile and scrum practices
• Understand the overall product roadmap as articulated by agile coach/product owner and translate roadmap into team specific release planning and sprint planning
• Identify the training programs for the team members coach and mentor team members to develop agile capabilities self-organization etc. explain benefits and scrum principles to the product owner and team
• Facilitate all interactions that the team has with the Product Owner to gather and prioritize the requirements review documented requirements as shared by the Product Owner
• Guide Agile team in coming up with a size based on the requirements / features gathered at the end of each sprint track metrics (e.g. velocity code quality defect density across all phases code review metrics testing metrics) for each sprint report the same to the management.
• Engage with team (the scrum team being managed by the role) create training plans for the team provide coaching to team members and develop their capability
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to lead complex projects simultaneously
• Being on-site at the client location minimum 2 – 3 days / week for the duration of the project
Qualifications
• 5+ years of scrum master experience in banking, insurance industry
• Minimum 2-5 years of relevant financial products/financial/ insurance industry experience
• Experience withCommercial Banking (payments/ cash management background)
• Experience with projects using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience with implementing Agile techniques in a software delivery environment
• Experience with setting up sprints, running reports, and creating queries
• Ability to support a technical delivery lead in decomposition sessions to determine the next steps for feature development
• Experience in managing complex programs with multiple workstreams
• Demonstrated experience problem solving and managing large programs at scale
• Minimum 2-5 years of relevant financial products/financial/ insurance industry experience
The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $[80,000.00 – 135,000.00] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits 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.
Qualifications
Domain Skills
SNo
Primary Skill
Proficiency Level *
Rqrd./Dsrd.
1
COTS Products(BFS Ast&Wlth)
NA
Required
* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level
Generic Reference
PL1
The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2
The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3
The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4
The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.