Agile Delivery Lead & Scrum Master

Sanderson Government & Defence

Shrewsbury

On-site

GBP 50,000 - 70,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking a Delivery Lead / Delivery Manager to support Agile software delivery within the Agents team in the UK. The role combines Scrum Master duties with practical delivery management, ensuring structure, planning discipline and visibility across product, design, analysis, engineering and testing for a complex programme.

This is an initial 4-month Discovery phase with potential extension into Alpha and build.

Qualifications

Strong experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Lead or hybrid Scrum Master / Delivery Manager within Agile software delivery teams.
Practical experience of delivery planning, backlog management, dependency tracking, risk and issue management, and stakeholder reporting.
Confident working with multidisciplinary teams across product, delivery, analysis, design and engineering.
Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to create clarity from ambiguity and bring structure to complex or evolving delivery work.

Responsibilities

Lead and facilitate Agile delivery for the team, ensuring ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives are effective, focused and consistently run.
Support the Product Owner, Business Analysts and delivery team in shaping, refining and prioritising the backlog so that work is well understood, appropriately sized and ready for delivery.
Maintain clear visibility of delivery progress through Jira and other agreed tracking mechanisms, ensuring sprint and backlog information is accurate, current and useful for decision making.
Provide regular, concise and evidence-based progress reporting to stakeholders, highlighting achievements, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions required and any impact on delivery timelines.
Identify, track and help remove impediments that affect the team's ability to meet sprint goals or progress planned delivery activity.
Promote collaboration, prioritisation, accountability and transparency across the team, creating an environment where issues can be raised early and addressed constructively.
Coach the team in Agile and Scrum practices, supporting continuous improvement and helping the team adopt the ways of working that best suit the delivery context.
Facilitate constructive discussion, support conflict resolution and help the team make appropriate delivery commitments without dictating how work should be completed.
Support team self-organisation while ensuring there is sufficient planning discipline, delivery focus and stakeholder engagement to maintain confidence in delivery.