Scrum Master

Sedona Digital; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead a large-scale QA and automation programme. This remote role requires strong Agile and stakeholder management skills within the financial services sector. You will guide a delivery team through multiple workstreams, ensuring quality and adherence to Agile practices. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of experience in similar roles and an understanding of QA processes and DevOps workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead in multi-team environments.
• Proven success in managing multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong familiarity with QA processes and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale QA and automation programme across multiple workstreams.
• Manage and prioritise Agile backlogs with customer PMs and Product Owners.
• Champion Agile practices ensuring alignment and continuous improvement.

Skills

Scrum Master experience

Agile delivery methodologies

Stakeholder management

QA processes

DevOps workflows

Communication skills

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead a QA‑centric, multi‑phaseprogrammespanning 12+ months, with expanding scope into software engineering and data engineering. You will guide a growing delivery team, froman initial5 members to approximately 15, across three workstreams focused on quality engineering, automation, and DevOps‑driven workflows.

This role begins at 50% allocation for the first six monthsexpected toincreasetofull-time thereafter.
Theprojectenvironment is fast‑paced and collaborative, based within the financial services/banking sector intheUK. The role is home‑office–based with occasional travel.

What You'll Do

• Lead the execution of a large-scale QA and automationprogramme, ensuring delivery of all contractual commitments across multiple workstreams.
• Manage, refine, andprioritiseAgile backlogs in partnership with Customer PMs, Product Owners, and Service Owners.
• Drive value delivery by tracking and communicating keyprogrammebenefits including:
• Reduction in QA cycle time
• Migration from manual to automated testing
• Improvements in test data availability, quality, and coverage
• Facilitate daily collaboration across a complex matrixorganisation, including:
• IT leadership and business application leaders (primarily Salesforce‑driven teams)
• Internal testing teams andthird‑party manual testers
• Test automation vendors supporting tooling, training, and adoption
• Management, steering groups, and mixed delivery teams of Test Architects,Managers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Business Analysts
• Champion Agile ways of working, ensuring alignment, transparency, and continuous improvement across all delivery teams.
• Support scaling of workstreams as theprogrammeevolves, ensuring momentum and delivery quality.

What You Bring

• 5+ yearsof experienceoperatingas a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead in complex, multi‑team environments.
• Proven successmanaging multiple concurrent workstreamsandmaintaininghigh‑quality backlogs.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with business users and technical teams across various disciplines.
• Strong familiarity with QA processes, automated testing, DevOps workflows, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills, particularly within matrixed and regulated environments.
• Ability tooperateindependently in a remote-first setting with periodic travel toa UK‑based client site.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience in financial services, banking, or regulated technology environments.
• Background in QA transformationprogrammes, test automation adoption, or test data engineering.
• Priorworkwith Salesforce‑centric teams or complex enterprise business applications.
• Hands‑on experience supporting multidisciplinary engineering teams (Software, Data, QA, Architecture).
• Familiarity with vendor‑supported automation tooling and change‑management practices related to tool rollout and adoption.