Scrum Master

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master within large-scale transformation programmes
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Excellent leadership and team facilitation abilities
• Experience managing complex requirements and analysis activities
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Experience creating and managing product backlogs and user stories
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to drive teams, influence stakeholders and establish new ways of working
• Experience within large enterprise or public sector environments
• Exposure to application modernisation programmes
• Knowledge of SRE principles, DevOps practices and automation tooling
• Experience working with emerging technologies and AI-enabled delivery tools
• Scrum Master
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership
• Planning

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Agile and Scrum ceremonies across our delivery teams
• Lead the derivation and analysis of existing system requirements
• Drive the creation and management of user stories and product backlogs
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs and priorities
• Support planning activities across multiple workstreams
• Lead and mentor teams of analysts and delivery professionals
• Help establish scalable and sustainable Agile delivery practices
• Collaborate with engineering teams during analysis, design, build and testing phases
• Support the adoption of SRE best practices, automation and modern engineering approaches
• Contribute to initiatives exploring GenAI capabilities, including legacy code analysis and code conversion

Technologies:

• AI
• DevOps
• Support

More:

We are offering an exciting 6-month initial contract opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master to join a major Tax Administration Modernisation Programme based in Telford, with 2 days onsite per week. This is a PAYE-only role requiring BPSS clearance, with a rate of up to £500 per day. We are driving a large-scale transformation to modernise a critical legacy platform, disaggregate an existing solution, and shape a new modern technical platform. You will work closely with analysts, engineers and stakeholders to establish robust delivery processes and help build a sustainable capability for future development and support. The programme is expected to run for several years, giving you the chance to contribute to a high-profile and impactful modernisation initiative.

last updated 32 week of 2026