Scrum Master

Tes; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Scrum Master to lead Agile teams in delivering high-quality educational solutions. This role emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and effective communication across technical and non-technical teams. The Scrum Master will ensure that initiatives are well-defined and executed, aligning team efforts with strategic goals. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to enhancing educational experiences through innovative technology. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the education sector while working in a hybrid environment that promotes work-life balance.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

State of the art city centre offices

Access to benefits via My Benefits World

Discounted city centre parking

Free eye care cover

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee assistance programme

Monthly social events

Extensive Learning and Development opportunities

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a Scrum Master in Agile environments.
• Proven ability to lead multiple teams and ensure on-time delivery.
• Experience in guiding teams on Agile principles.

Responsibilities

• Drive Agile excellence and ensure efficient delivery of solutions.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and manage team dynamics.
• Oversee project timelines and manage requirement changes.

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Scrum

Kanban

Stakeholder Management

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Communication Skills

Education

Certified Scrum Master certification

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK ● Talbot Green, Pontyclun CF72 9FG, UK Req #1003

29 April 2025

Department: Technology

Location: Sheffield or Talbot Green

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

The Scrum Master is responsible for driving efficient Agile delivery, ensuring teams can build and release high-quality products that positively impact learners and educators. By fostering collaboration, removing blockers, and optimising workflows, they enable teams to deliver value consistently and predictably.

At Tes, strong delivery practices go beyond meeting deadlines—they ensure that students, teachers, and institutions receive reliable, user-friendly, and impactful digital learning solutions. The Scrum Master plays a key role in aligning teams on priorities, driving continuous improvement, and delivering products that enhance education accessibility, engagement, and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

This role is key to driving Agile excellence, enabling teams to work effectively, and ensuring impactful solutions are delivered efficiently.

• Ensure initiatives are well-defined, estimated, and planned before execution, meeting the definition of ready, with agreed sprint goals and aligned Scrum Masters.
• Oversee on-time and predictable delivery, ensuring initiatives align with launch timelines.
• Manage requirement changes through the approval process and address budget overruns as needed.
• Maintain accurate capacity plans and managing launch dates accordingly.
• Facilitate Scrum of Scrums to enhance cross-team collaboration and alignment.
• Support rollout activities, Stakeholder communication, Hypercare bug triages and conducting end-of-initiative retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain an executable backlog for the current sprint and upcoming sprints
• Ensuring sprint goals are clearly broken down into stories, tech tasks, and test cases.
• Support the team in delivering planned work while maintaining velocity, accounting for justifiable variations such as learning or leave.
• Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring alignment with approved initiatives.
• Escalate unavoidable slippage and ensure sprint work is realistic, achievable, and aligned with business priorities.
• Promote a focused approach, limiting teams to a single initiative per sprint unless circumstances require otherwise.

What will you need to succeed?

Experience

• 4+ years as a Scrum Master in Agile environment, preferably technology driven or EdTech organisation.
• Proven ability to lead multiple teams or complex initiatives, ensuring on-time and predictable delivery.
• Experience in guiding teams on Agile principles, improving Agile maturity and driving continuous improvement.
• Experienced in facilitating Agile ceremonies and fostering collaboration for improved efficiency.

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Lean, with the ability to adapt Agile practices based on team and business needs.
• Proficient in JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile project management tools for backlog management and reporting.
• Understanding of software development processes, DevOps, or cloud technologies is a plus.

Skills

• Skilled in tracking, managing and reporting on key delivery metrics such as velocity, predictability, WIP, lead and cycle time.
• Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and clarity.
• Adept at stakeholder management skills, working closely with Product Owners, Engineering, and Leadership to align priorities and remove blockers.
• Capable of adapting Agile processes where necessary and promoting a culture of innovation.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments, balancing short-term execution with long-term process improvements.

Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, SSM or equivalent).
• General leadership & Project Management certification (PMP, Green/ Black belt – Lean Six Sigma, LeSS Practitioner or equivalent) – ideally but not mandatory.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or Project Management – ideally but not mandatory.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

• Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK