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Job Description

Cognosante is looking for an experienced SCRUM Masters to define, mature, build, and continue improve our approach to Agile development. We're looking for an outstanding Scrum Master who knows how to work with teams of product managers and highly skilled engineers in a fast pace Agile environment.

Who Are You?

You are passionate about Agile, communication, and human dynamics, and have an insatiable appetite for helping people excel. You are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve the status quo, able to maintain a broad perspective while paying attention to details, and take great pride in your work. A self-starter, you are not afraid to raise issues and drive change to remove impediments from your team and improve the greater organization.

The Role

You will be the team lead for the development of product backlog, prioritization and for all sprint planning and reviews. You will assist with team and program coordination and communicating with upper management. You have a proven track record as a Scrum Master and can demonstrate initiative and determination in assuring the team has a robust well managed Scrum process. You will be part of a team dedicated to change Healthcare IT.

Key responsibilities

• Lead all Scrum related ceremonies, including: daily standup, grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives, and sprint planning ceremonies.


• Coaching teams on the basics of Scrum or Kanban (as needed) in simple terms


• Provide leadership in identifying iterative process improvements and methods to streamline adoption of the methodology


• Maintain Product Backlog to include new or revised requirements and backlog items, prioritization, and reporting


• Support Deliverables to include Release Burn Down Charts, Sprint Burn Down Charts, and sprint summations for the customer and the team


• Support solicitation of input and feedback from stakeholders and users after each Sprint


• Take initiative and act as a leader to foster collaboration and communication between team members on technical issues, on process improvements, and in addressing and escalating project risks and issues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree)


• Scrum Master certification


• Demonstrated experience in iterative methodologies (Agile/Scrum)- leading Scrum meetings, Sprints, Product Backlogs, Burn Down Charts, and/or Develop User Stories


• Strong technical writing and presentation skills

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills


• Very strong facilitation, planning and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe certification


• In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing enterprise level systems


• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environments


• Understanding of the role of software development tools and processes such as version control, defect and issue trackers, build processes, team collaboration tools


• Experience working with dispersed teams, and using online communication tools such as Microsoft Teams, or similar.


• Experience working with many development teams (varied personalities and communication styles)


• Experience managing deployment processes