Agile Delivery Manager/ Scrum Master

IBU; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

IBU is seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to guide technology, infrastructure, and enterprise transformation initiatives in a fast-paced Birmingham environment. You will drive agile ceremonies, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure delivery transparency through governance reporting.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and a track record of continuous improvement in large-scale programmes.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in technology, infrastructure, or enterprise transformation.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, dashboards, and governance reporting.
• Lead cross-functional teams in remediation or transformation programs.
• Facilitate backlog readiness, sprint commitments, and capacity planning.
• Coach teams on agile behaviours and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management and governance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Run agile ceremonies and maintain sprint cadence.
• Manage blockers, risks, actions, issues, and decisions.
• Produce sprint-level reports and KPI insights for governance.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, PMO, engineering leads, and vendors.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned.

Skills

Agile delivery leadership

Scrum Master experience

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional team leadership

Facilitation

Communication

Backlog management

Sprint planning

Delivery governance

Continuous improvement

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Dashboards

Job description

Experience in technology, infrastructure, operations, or enterprise transformation environments (5-10 years).

Strong understanding of agile delivery, Scrum practices, Kanban principles, backlog management, and sprint-based execution.

Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced remediation or transformation programme with daily governance and senior stakeholder visibility.

Experience working with Jira, Confluence, dashboards, status reporting, and delivery governance.

Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.

Run agile ceremonies and ensure teams maintain a clear sprint cadence.

Facilitate backlog readiness, sprint commitments, capacity planning, and cross-team dependency resolution.

Track blockers, risks, actions, issues, and decisions, and escalate where delivery impact is identified.

Produce sprint-level reporting, progress commentary, KPI insights, and delivery summaries for governance forums.

Partner with Product Owners, Programme Managers, PMO, engineering leads, and vendors to ensure priorities are understood, and delivery outcomes are achieved.

Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, lessons learned, and measurable team performance improvements.

Years of exp: Min (5-10 years)

Agile delivery leadership and Scrum Master experience.

Sprint planning, backlog refinement, story readiness, acceptance criteria, and dependency tracking.

Jira board configuration, sprint reporting, burn-down/burn-up tracking, flow metrics, and blocker management.

Experience coordinating multiple teams, vendors, product owners, engineering leads, and operations teams.

Strong understanding of governance forums, RAID management, action tracking, and executive reporting.

Ability to coach teams on agile behaviours, continuous improvement, accountability, and delivery transparency.