Scrum Master – Applications & Network

Jobtailor

Greater London

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 95,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor in London seeks an experienced Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead to facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, and to ensure ceremonies are purposeful and outcome‑focused.

You will maintain refined backlogs with Product Owners and Tech Leads, manage dependencies and blockers across multiple teams, coach squads in agile practices, and align delivery with governance, migration waves and programme outcomes.

Qualifications

Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead
Coaches teams to improve agile maturity and delivery effectiveness
Strong backlog-management skills with Product Owners and Technical Leads
Experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks and impediments across multiple teams
Familiarity with governance in a governed programme environment

Responsibilities

Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives
Maintain prioritised, refined backlogs with Product Owners and Tech Leads
Identify and remove impediments before they impact delivery
Coordinate cross-team dependencies across identity, infrastructure, security, testing and cutover
Use agile metrics to predictability, capacity, throughput and trends
Coach squads in agile principles and behaviours
Protect delivery teams and align agile delivery with governance visibility
Integrate agile delivery with programme planning, governance and reporting

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile Delivery Lead

Backlog Management

Dependency Management

Agile Metrics

Tools

Agile Planning Tools

Collaboration Tools

Reporting Tools

Job description

Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and other agile ceremonies
Ensure ceremonies are purposeful, inclusive and focused on clear delivery outcomes
Maintain prioritised, refined, ready and outcome-focused backlogs with Product Owners and Technical Leads
Break down complex technical and migration activity into achievable increments
Track delivery flow, sprint commitments, blockers, risks, dependencies and emerging issues across application and network workstreams
Identify, remove or escalation impediments before they affect delivery
Coordinate dependencies with identity, infrastructure, security, testing, cutover, change and programme teams
Maintain visibility of cross-squad dependencies, actions and decisions
Support sprint and release planning based on capacity, technical readiness and dependencies
Encourage clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready and definition of done
Maintain visibility of progress against migration waves, milestones and programme outcomes
Escalate unresolved delivery risks, blockers and dependencies
Use agile metrics and delivery data to assess flow, predictability, capacity, throughput and trends
Identify continuous improvement opportunities through feedback, retrospectives and delivery evidence
Coach squads in agile principles and behaviours
Protect delivery teams from unnecessary disruption while maintaining programme commitments and governance visibility
Integrate agile delivery with programme planning, governance and reporting
Coordinate technical and operational readiness activities for migration and cutover events
Capture lessons learned from delivery and migration waves to improve subsequent waves

Requirements

Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or equivalent, supporting technical delivery teams
Strong practical experience facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement
Demonstrable experience coaching teams to improve agile maturity, ownership and delivery effectiveness
Strong backlog-management skills, working with Product Owners and Technical Leads to establish clear priorities and outcomes
Strong experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, actions and impediments across multiple teams
Experience in a governed programme environment with fixed migration milestones or business deadlines
Practical understanding of agile delivery alongside programme governance, project management, architecture, change and operational processes
Experience with applications, networks, cloud, infrastructure or other enterprise technology delivery is strongly desirable
Ability to understand sufficient technical context to facilitate effectively and identify when specialist intervention or escalation is required
Experience working with architects, engineers, developers, infrastructure specialists, security teams, Product Owners, Project Managers and customer stakeholders
Confidence using common agile planning, collaboration and reporting tools
Experience using delivery metrics to identify trends, improve predictability and support evidence-based delivery conversations
Excellent facilitation and communication skills
Ability to provide constructive challenge and know when to coach, facilitate, intervene or escalation
Emotional intelligence to work effectively with different personalities, disciplines and levels of seniority
Highly organised and comfortable working across multiple workstreams
Focus on outcomes rather than ceremonies

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Delivery, facilitating sprint planning, managing backlogs, and coaching teams to enhance agile maturity and delivery effectiveness. Proficient in coordinating dependencies and risks across multiple teams while maintaining governance and visibility in a governed programme environment.

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