Scrum Master

Olive Jar Digital; Greater London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing digital consultancy is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead teams in delivering digital projects effectively in agile and hybrid environments. This role involves facilitating collaboration and promoting best practices while ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in agile methodologies and a collaborative mindset. The position offers full-time remote work with various benefits including health insurance and a pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master within digital, data, or technology programmes.
• Strong understanding of agile principles and frameworks.
• Ability to identify and remove delivery obstacles.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and reviews.
• Remove blockers and manage dependencies.
• Coach team members on agile methodologies.

Skills

Agile principles

Scrum

Kanban

Lean

Facilitating meetings

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement mindset

Job description

About The Role

We’re seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support the delivery of digital projects and help teams work effectively within agile and hybrid environments.

You’ll act as a servant leader – facilitating collaboration, removing blockers, and ensuring delivery teams can focus on achieving outcomes that align with organisational goals.

Contract: FTC or Permanent
Location: UK-wide, Remote

About Olive Jar Digital

As we grow, we empower our teams to develop their roles and functions and offer support to get you from where you are now, to where you want to be. We are a professional, fun, fully inclusive and diverse digital consultancy, valuing everyone’s opinion. With a huge growth plan over the next two years, we are looking to expand our client-facing delivery team with designers, developers, and testers as we continue to grow our project portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews, ensuring teams stay focused on goals and delivery outcomes.
• Remove blockers and manage dependencies to help teams maintain steady progress.
• Support the Product Manager and Delivery Manager in prioritising and managing the backlog.
• Promote agile best practices and help teams continuously improve processes and collaboration.
• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and open communication across teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor delivery progress and provide accurate reporting on sprint outcomes, risks, and dependencies.
• Coach team members on agile methodologies and support the adoption of agile values across the organisation.
• Ensure delivery aligns with organisational objectives, quality standards, and user needs.
• Facilitate workshops, sprint reviews, and cross-team sessions to build understanding and alignment.

About You

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead within digital, data, or technology programmes.
• Strong understanding of agile principles, frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and delivery lifecycle management.
• Skilled at facilitating meetings and workshops, with a collaborative and proactive approach.
• Excellent communicator, able to manage stakeholders and influence at all levels.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary teams in agile or hybrid delivery environments.
• Ability to identify and remove delivery obstacles while maintaining team morale and momentum.
• A continuous improvement mindset with experience using metrics and feedback to enhance performance.
• Familiarity with public sector or large-scale transformation projects is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays)
• Health insurance
• Pension scheme
• Electric car scheme

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology – IT Services and IT Consulting