Scrum Master

Overview

In this Scrum Master role, you enable multidisciplinary technology delivery teams to operate with clarity and velocity. You’ll coach teams, foster self-organisation, and ensure delivery commitments are understood and met, while maintaining governance and visibility across workstreams. This position combines hands-on agile delivery with broader delivery management to drive predictable outcomes. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, stakeholders, and technical specialists to implement practical improvements and support transformational delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• Quarterly Profit Share Scheme
• Career progression and mentorship programs
• Flexible/remote working
• Pension and Private healthcare
• Life assurance and financial advice
• Wellbeing initiatives including gym discounts, mindfulness, EAP

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives)
• Coach delivery teams, Product Owners and stakeholders in Agile principles and delivery behaviours
• Support sustainable delivery cadence and improve predictability
• Promote transparency with Agile metrics and team-level reporting
• Support backlog refinement and sprint readiness
• Foster collaboration across delivery teams, stakeholders and technical specialists
• Run workshops and retrospectives to drive practical improvements
• Embed continuous improvement and shared ownership of delivery outcomes
• Support delivery planning, forecasting and roadmap management across workstreams
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies ensuring visibility and progress
• Monitor progress against objectives, timelines and sprint goals
• Provide concise status reporting on progress, risks, dependencies and forecasts
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and governance activities

Key requirements

• 5+ years as a Scrum Master in Agile software/technology delivery
• Delivery leadership experience (Delivery Manager/Project Manager) with planning, risk and stakeholder engagement responsibility
• Proven track record delivering complex software/digital change initiatives in Agile environments
• Strong understanding of Scrum and Agile delivery practices
• Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and stakeholder workshops
• Experience managing and reporting delivery risks, issues, and dependencies
• Experience translating priorities into clear delivery plans with Product Owners and teams
• Familiarity with delivery governance, planning, forecasting and assurance
• Familiarity with project budgeting and spend reporting
• Excellent communication, facilitation and coaching skills with stakeholder influence
• Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent tools
• Desirable certifications: PSM/CSM; PRINCE2/APM PMP or equivalent
• Experience working across multiple Agile teams or cross-team dependencies
• Experience in public sector/regulated environments
• Knowledge of Lean, Kanban or other Agile approaches
• Experience supporting technology transformation and cloud/digital delivery programs

• communication
• facilitation
• coaching
• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• Scrum

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