Scrum Master

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require a level 1 Agile qualification such as PSM1, CSM, DASM, KMP, or ICP.
• We ideally want you to be studying towards, or have achieved, a level 2 / advanced qualification in Agile.
• We value significant experience of at least one, ideally two Agile frameworks and associated methods, with preference for Scrum and Kanban.
• We expect experience of working in an Agile iterative and/or incremental environment, regularly solving problems and delivering value to customers.
• We look for the ability to communicate why Agile as well as how to do Agile to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• We value experience of adopting Lean principles with examples of positive impact on customer value delivered.
• We want a pragmatic, agnostic Agile approach, selecting methods and techniques best suited to context.
• We look for experience of scaling Agile ways of working across at least two teams using a core scaling framework such as Disciplined Agile, Nexus, LeSS and/or SAFe.
• We value knowledge of Agile practices and techniques such as Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, Event Storming and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience of working in a DevOps environment is beneficial.
• We want a self-learner who rapidly expands knowledge of Agile practices, frameworks, and techniques.
• We value strong behavioural traits including critical thinking, emotional intelligence, influence, autonomy, and a servant-leader mindset.
• Your background may come from computer science, pure science, business, military, or another field, as long as you can demonstrate agile knowledge and application in context.

Responsibilities:

• We establish Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide and help everyone understand Scrum theory and practice.
• We enable the Scrum Team to improve its practices within the Scrum framework.
• We facilitate and encourage backlog grooming and refinement, working with the Product Manager/Product Owner and the team.
• We champion early detection and removal or mitigation of cross-team dependencies.
• We typically support two teams and demonstrate the 8 Stances of the Scrum Master.
• We establish Sprint Goals and enable the team to focus on and achieve them.
• We ensure Sprint Goals are aligned to quarterly team-level Programme Increments and associated value definitions.
• We embed good Agile practices and ways of working at team level and influence the Engineering and Product departments through wider conversations.
• We discover and commit Objectives and Key Results at team level to measure the success of ways of working changes.
• We use metrics as feedback to establish a culture of evidence-based continuous improvement.
• We coach and influence the Scrum Team to improve ways of working while balancing Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.
• We proactively identify, triage, unblock, and escalate impediments impacting the Scrum Team.
• We establish a culture of preventing impediments before they occur.
• We support the team in achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.
• We support the team to discover options for improving Agile ways of working and explain why.
• We articulate and challenge ideas relating to agility and DevOps to better align outputs to outcomes delivering customer value.
• We work with a high degree of autonomy with the team to determine effective ways to deliver value in an emergent context.
• We encourage autonomy and ownership inside our team.

Technologies:

• DevOps
• Support
• Kanban
• LESS
• Nexus
• Product Manager
• Product Owner

More:

We are Edenred PayTech, a subsidiary of the Edenred group and leaders in prepaid solutions including banking, virtual cards, debit, credit, and prepaid processing. This Scrum Master II role is based in a hybrid working environment from Swindon or London, with three days per week in the office and a salary of up to £72,000 per annum plus bonus. We offer 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, life insurance, wellbeing support, a digital learning platform, in-office snacks and refreshments, volunteering opportunities, social events, a pension scheme, discretionary bonus, holiday trading, medical and international travel cover, an employee referral bonus, season ticket loan, and cycle to work scheme. We are committed to equal opportunity and an inclusive, merit-based environment where you can grow your skills in a multicultural, challenging, and dynamic setting.

last updated 34 week of 2026