Sprint Lead - Utilities Domain
- Cognizant
- 9 - 14 years
- Hyderabad
- 2 days ago
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Job Description
Sprint Lead Job Description:
Location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata.
Experience Range: 9 to 15+ Years of Exp
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, etc., ensuring consistent cadence, clear objectives, and strong team engagement.
- Partner with Architects, Business Leads, Data Leads, Developers, and Testers to create, refine, and maintain a highquality sprint backlog composed of welldefined user stories, acceptance criteria, and tasks aligned to business and technical value.
- Provide coaching and guidance to Agile teams and delivery leaders on Agile principles and practices across SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying and removing impediments, optimizing team flow, and reinforcing Agile best practices that enhance delivery predictability and overall team performance.
- Increase Agile maturity across teams by fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, accountability, and datadriven decision making.
- Track, analyze, and communicate team performance metrics to stakeholders, using tools such as Jira dashboards and Power BI for visibility and progress reporting.
- Coordinate crossteam dependencies, aligning sprint goals across product, engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to ensure smooth and predictable delivery cycles.
- Act as the primary escalation point for sprintlevel risks, blockers, and scope concerns, driving timely resolution through collaboration with leaders and support teams.
- Strengthen relationships with product, technical, and business partners through consistent communication, expectation setting, and alignment on sprint priorities.
- Champion Agile delivery discipline within hybrid, distributed, and multitimezone teams to maintain consistency, effectiveness, and highquality delivery outcomes.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience in Agile delivery roles (Scrum Master, Sprint Lead, Release Train Engineer, or Agile Project Manager) with at least Z years facilitating Agile ceremonies in a complex, multiteam environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies, with prior experience coaching teams and leaders to improve Agile maturity.
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to guide discussions, resolve conflicts, and drive alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
- Handson experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps, including creating dashboards, managing sprint boards, and supporting backlog refinement.
- Experience leveraging analytics and Agile metrics (velocity, burndown, flow metrics, etc.) to enhance performance, identify bottlenecks, and support continuous improvement.
- Ability to thrive in fastchanging, ambiguous environments with a strong bias for action and a commitment to driving clarity, prioritization, and delivery focus.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills with the ability to influence without authority.
- Demonstrated ability to balance multiple workstreams, manage crossteam dependencies, and coordinate across distributed or hybrid teams.
- Prior experience supporting digital transformation or cloudrelated delivery initiatives is a plus.
- Agile certifications preferred (e.g., CSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner, PMI-ACP), but not required.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: ConsultingRole Category: IT ConsultingRole: Functional ConsultantEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CognizantLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Sprint Planning Kanban Safe Scrum Agile Framework Agile Metrics Sprint Review CSM Devops Retrospective
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