Cognizant Looking for Senior Agile Delivery Lead at Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world’s leading companies and help them become more flexible, innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, ambitious, and innovative Senior Agile Delivery Lead, to join our growing team. You must have a passion for consulting and solving complex business problems for our clients. You’ll be responsible for bringing experience and thought-leadership across the delivery of business transformation and customer experience.

• Consult with stakeholders to understand scope, stakeholders, products, etc. of each initiative.
• Provide advice on ensuring Agile delivery within the client’s constraints, including the division of work into projects, teams, releases, epics, etc.
• Experience across delivery of business transformation/CX engagements
• Establish and maintain project schedules
• Engage with the product owners to ensure that stories are identified and specified appropriately, including definition of done
• Establish the project structure, stories, etc. in Jira and document actions, decisions, etc. in Confluence
• Manage and continuously improve the delivery teams’ use of agile practices
• Lead and/or organise standups and ceremonies
• Provide sprint reports and monthly project reports

A bit about you

• Curious and eager to learn: you are a curious individual who is eager to develop their skills and progress their career at every opportunity in a consulting environment.
• Team player: you thrive as a part of high performing teams and love sharing your knowledge with your peers and clients. We win together.
• Proactive: you seize opportunities when you see them. Every day at Cognizant presents broad opportunities for personal, professional and business growth.
• Passionate: you are excited by tech. Our team constantly innovate and implement new technologies and methodologies for themselves, our vendors and our clients.

Why join Cognizant?

• Work on a wide range of interesting projects, using a variety of emerging technologies.
• A chance to work alongside a collaborative and passionate like-minded team.
• Structured learning and development – weekly workshops on a variety of technologies, access to courses on Udemy, sponsored certifications.
• Career development – multiple avenues for growth and an innovative reward and recognition structure.

Cognizant recognises individual differences and welcomes people from a variety of life and work experiences. The diversity of our people is core to our ability to innovate, grow, and fulfill our collective aspiration of helping people to own their tomorrow. A natural curiosity, a respect for differences, and a growth mindset are valued at Cognizant

If you like what you see and are interested, please don’t hesitate – APPLY NOW!