Senior Agile Delivery Lead - Remote Scrum Master

HF; Belfast City District; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Scheme

Hybrid & Flexible Working

Employee Discount Hub

Job summary

HF is seeking a Senior Scrum Master/Delivery Manager to lead Agile delivery for a remote, permanent role based in the UK. You will guide cross-functional teams, ensuring clear plans, prioritised work, and timely delivery across sprints and programmes.

The role requires deep Scrum and Agile expertise, strong stakeholder management, and experience with SAFe and Jira. You will help drive delivery health and governance while supporting a flexible hybrid/remote work approach.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Scrum Master and/or Delivery Manager within technology environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of Scrum, Agile and preferably SAFe.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams including developers, testers, analysts, platform specialists and Product Owners.
• An understanding of software delivery and the SDLC.
• Experience managing delivery risks, dependencies, blockers and competing priorities.
• Strong delivery reporting and analytical capability.
• Experience using Jira or comparable Agile delivery tooling.
• The ability to interpret delivery metrics and turn data into meaningful management insight.
• Experience producing reporting for senior leadership and governance boards.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Take accountability for the team's delivery against agreed Sprint, PI and wider programme commitments.
• Maintain a clear understanding of delivery progress, priorities, dependencies, risks and blockers.
• Identify when delivery is falling behind and proactively establish the underlying cause.
• Constructively challenge the team where progress, ownership or pace is below expectations.
• Drive blockers and impediments through to resolution rather than simply recording or reporting them.
• Escalate issues quickly and appropriately where resolution sits outside the team's control.
• Work closely with Product Owners, engineering, testing, business SMEs and other delivery teams to resolve cross-team dependencies.
• Maintain a strong focus on outcomes and completed work, not simply activity or ceremony.
• Lead and continuously improve the team's Agile delivery practices.
• Facilitate effective Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Refinement, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Ensure Sprint Goals are meaningful, understood and actively managed throughout the Sprint.
• Lead effective PI Planning and delivery against committed PI Objectives.
• Drive high standards around Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, estimation, capacity planning and backlog readiness.
• Use retrospectives and delivery data to identify improvements and ensure agreed actions translate into measurable change.
• Promote accountability and ownership within the team rather becoming the team's task manager.
• Maintain a clear delivery plan and understand whether upcoming milestones and commitments remain achievable.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and workstreams.
• Ensure emerging delivery risks are identified early rather than becoming last-minute surprises.
• Work with the Product Owner to ensure the team has sufficient prioritised, refined and delivery-ready work.
• Balance Agile principles with the practical realities of delivery within a complex enterprise programme.
• Own accurate and transparent reporting of team delivery performance.
• Use delivery metrics to understand performance and support evidence-based conclusions.
• Translate detailed delivery information into clear executive messages covering progress, confidence, risks, impact and required decisions.
• Ensure reporting provides an honest view of delivery health rather than simply reporting that activity is taking place.

Skills

Scrum Master

Delivery Manager

Agile

SAFe

Stakeholder management

Jira

Delivery reporting

Tools

Jira

Job description

HF is seeking a Senior Scrum Master/Delivery Manager to lead Agile delivery for a remote, permanent role based in the UK. You will guide cross-functional teams, ensuring clear plans, prioritised work, and timely delivery across sprints and programmes.

The role requires deep Scrum and Agile expertise, strong stakeholder management, and experience with SAFe and Jira. You will help drive delivery health and governance while supporting a flexible hybrid/remote work approach.