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About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Applications & Network Scrum Master to join a major transformation programme and enable effective agile delivery across our applications and network squads. This is a hands-on delivery role focused on creating the environment in which multidisciplinary technical teams can perform at their best. You will bring structure, transparency and momentum to delivery, helping teams maintain clear priorities, manage dependencies, remove blockers and deliver against agreed migration outcomes.

Responsibilities

Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and other agreed agile ceremonies.
Ensure ceremonies are purposeful, inclusive and focused on achieving clear delivery outcomes rather than simply following process.
Work with Product Owners and Technical Leads to maintain prioritised, refined, ready and outcome-focused backlogs.
Help teams break down complex technical and migration activity into achievable increments that can be planned, delivered and demonstrated.
Track delivery flow, sprint commitments, blockers, risks, dependencies and emerging issues across application and network workstreams.
Identify impediments early and work with the appropriate teams to remove or escalate them before they impact delivery.
Coordinate dependencies and interfaces with identity, infrastructure, security, testing, cutover, change and other programme teams.
Maintain visibility of cross-squad dependencies and ensure actions and decisions are clearly owned and followed through.
Support realistic sprint and release planning, ensuring commitments are based on team capacity, technical readiness and known dependencies.
Encourage clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready and definition of done so that teams understand what successful delivery looks like.
Maintain clear visibility of progress against migration waves, key milestones and programme outcomes.
Provide timely escalation of delivery risks, blockers and dependencies where they cannot be resolved within the squad.
Use appropriate agile metrics and delivery data to understand flow, predictability, capacity, throughput and emerging delivery trends.
Use team feedback, retrospectives and delivery evidence to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Coach squads in agile principles and behaviours, encouraging ownership, collaboration, transparency and continuous learning.
Help protect delivery teams from unnecessary disruption while ensuring that programme-level commitments and governance requirements remain visible and understood.
Work with Project Managers and Programme Leads to ensure agile delivery integrates effectively with wider programme planning, governance and reporting.
Support the coordination of technical and operational readiness activities leading into migration and cutover events.
Help ensure lessons learned from each delivery or migration wave are captured and used to improve subsequent waves.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or equivalent, supporting technical delivery teams.
Strong practical experience facilitating agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
Demonstrable experience supporting and coaching teams to improve their agile maturity, ownership and delivery effectiveness.
Strong backlog-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product Owners and Technical Leads to establish clear priorities and delivery outcomes.
Strong experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, actions and impediments across multiple teams.
Experience working within a governed programme environment where agile teams are working towards fixed migration milestones or business deadlines.
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.
Confidence using common agile planning, collaboration and reporting tools.
Experience using delivery metrics to identify trends, improve predictability and support evidence-based conversations about delivery.
You will be an excellent facilitator and communicator who can bring people together around a common outcome.
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.
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.
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 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.

Skills

Agile delivery
Scrum Master
Agile ceremonies facilitation
Backlog management
Dependency management
Risk management
Impediment management
Agile metrics
Agile coaching
Communication
Facilitation
Emotional intelligence
Organisational skills
Outcome-focused delivery

Location

Hybrid London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Benefits

Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience
Part of exciting project work making a difference in society
Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
Supportive and collaborative environment
LinkedIn Learning access
Management development programme
Training
24/7 confidential employee assistance programme
Flexible working options
Home working
Part time working
Office parties
Breakfast Tuesdays
Monthly pizza Thursdays
Thirsty Thursdays
Commitment to charitable causes
25 days of annual leave per year
Bank holidays
Option to buy 5 extra days of leave each year
2 paid days per year to volunteer
Salary Exchange Scheme pension with 4% employer contribution
Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
Non-contributory Private Medical Insurance (spouse and dependants included)
Non-contributory Worldwide Travel Insurance (spouse and dependants included)
Enhanced Maternity Pay
Enhanced Paternity Pay
Season ticket loan
Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK.
Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems.
At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.