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# Scrum Master

- **Company:** Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
- **Location:** Des Moines, IA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $68,422.0 - $114,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Functional Dependencies, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/BF8FC8BDDEDA4B55A48E88B0F22E85CC/job/

## About the Role

· 5+ years of Agile delivery experience, including 3+ years as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or similar role.

· Experience delivering technology solutions within financial services, banking, capital markets, fintech, or regulated government cloud environments.

· Strong expertise in Scrum, Agile methodologies, servant leadership, team facilitation, and stakeholder management.

· Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Agile dashboards, and delivery reporting.

## Description

The Scrum Master is responsible for leading Agile execution for a cross-functional delivery team developing secure, compliant financial technology solutions for government cloud environments. This role drives Agile best practices, facilitates team ceremonies, removes delivery impediments, manages dependencies, and ensures predictable, high-quality delivery across product, engineering, quality assurance, security, compliance, and client-facing stakeholders.

In this role, you will:

· Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and dependency management.

· Remove team impediments and proactively resolve delivery risks, blockers, assumptions, and cross-functional dependencies.

· Coordinate execution across Product Owners, Engineering, QA, DevSecOps, Security, Compliance, and business stakeholders.

· Monitor Agile delivery metrics including velocity, burn-up/burndown, cycle time, defect leakage, sprint health, and release readiness.

· Drive transparency, delivery predictability, continuous improvement, and adherence to Agile principles and Scrum practices.

Work model:

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.