Scrum Master (Applications & Network)

Join our team as an Applications & Network Scrum Master, where you will play a crucial role in a major transformation program. In this hands-on delivery role, you will create an environment for multidisciplinary technical teams to excel.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference in society while developing your skills and experience.

Most importantly, you will be focused on outcomes rather than ceremonies. Agile processes are important, but your measure of success will be whether teams are becoming more predictable, dependencies are being managed effectively and the programme is successfully delivering its migration objectives

You will have the emotional intelligence to work effectively with different personalities, disciplines and levels of seniority, creating an environment where people feel able to raise issues and challenge assumptions

About Methods

You will also be highly organised and comfortable working across multiple workstreams. You will naturally look beyond the immediate sprint to understand how dependencies, risks and decisions could affect the wider migration programme

You will be an excellent facilitator and communicator who can bring people together around a common outcome

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with the program roadmap and migration waves.
• Your responsibilities will include facilitating agile ceremonies, maintaining prioritized backlogs, tracking delivery flow, and coaching teams in agile principles.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain prioritised backlogs, and track delivery flow.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Coach teams towards greater ownership and predictability while providing constructive challenge.
• Strong practical experience facilitating agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement
• Confidence using common agile planning, collaboration and reporting tools
• Strong experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, actions and impediments across multiple teams

Requirements

• We are looking for an experienced Scrum Master or Agile Delivery professional with a strong track record of working with multidisciplinary technical teams
• Practical understanding of how agile delivery operates alongside programme governance, project management, architecture, change and operational processes
• The ability to understand enough technical context to facilitate effectively and identify when an issue requires specialist intervention or escalation
• Experience working with architects, engineers, developers, infrastructure specialists, security teams, Product Owners, Project Managers and customer stakeholders
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or equivalent, supporting technical delivery teams
• Demonstrable experience supporting and coaching teams to improve their agile maturity, ownership and delivery effectiveness
• Experience working with applications, networks, cloud, infrastructure or other enterprise technology delivery is strongly desirable
• Experience working within a governed programme environment where agile teams are working towards fixed migration milestones or business deadlines
• Strong backlog-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product Owners and Technical Leads to establish clear priorities and delivery outcomes
• Experience using delivery metrics to identify trends, improve predictability and support evidence-based conversations about delivery
• You will be comfortable asking difficult questions and providing constructive challenge without creating unnecessary friction. You will know when to coach, when to facilitate, when to intervene and when to escalate