Scrum Master

Scrum Master Are you ready for your next career challenge?.. Role overview: Enable one or more ESCS delivery teams to work effectively using Scrum and wider agile practices.

The Scrum Master facilitates planning and delivery, removes impediments, supports transparent reporting and coaches the team towards sustainable continuous improvement. The role you will play: Create an effective delivery cadence and protect team focus.

Connect team-level delivery with programme priorities, dependencies and release plans. Use evidence and facilitation to help the team improve flow, predictability and quality. Primary responsibilities: Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.

Work with business and technical leads to maintain a ready, prioritised and understood backlog. Track impediments, dependencies, risks and actions through to resolution. Support programme increment, release and cross-team planning where applicable.

Use delivery metrics responsibly to identify trends and improvement opportunities. Coach team members and stakeholders in agile values, roles and effective collaboration. Support distributed teams and maintain inclusive, outcome-focused ceremonies.

Promote continuous improvement without compromising delivery transparency.

Required skills and capabilities: Scrum and agile delivery Facilitation and team coaching Backlog refinement and sprint planning Dependency and impediment management Agile metrics, flow and reporting Release and programme increment planning Retrospective design and continuous improvement Jira, Confluence or equivalent tooling Conflict resolution and stakeholder communication Value-focused delivery practices Required experience: Scrum Master or agile delivery experience with multidisciplinary technology teams.

Experience supporting product owners, analysts, engineers and testers through the delivery lifecycle. Experience working across virtual, distributed or multi-location teams. Evidence of imp