Scrum Master – Applications & Network

Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and other agile ceremonies
Ensure ceremonies are purposeful, inclusive and focused on clear delivery outcomes
Maintain prioritised, refined, ready and outcome-focused backlogs with Product Owners and Technical Leads
Break down complex technical and migration activity into achievable increments
Track delivery flow, sprint commitments, blockers, risks, dependencies and emerging issues across application and network workstreams
Identify, remove or escalation impediments before they affect delivery
Coordinate dependencies with identity, infrastructure, security, testing, cutover, change and programme teams
Maintain visibility of cross-squad dependencies, actions and decisions
Support sprint and release planning based on capacity, technical readiness and dependencies
Encourage clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready and definition of done
Maintain visibility of progress against migration waves, milestones and programme outcomes
Escalate unresolved delivery risks, blockers and dependencies
Use agile metrics and delivery data to assess flow, predictability, capacity, throughput and trends
Identify continuous improvement opportunities through feedback, retrospectives and delivery evidence
Coach squads in agile principles and behaviours
Protect delivery teams from unnecessary disruption while maintaining programme commitments and governance visibility
Integrate agile delivery with programme planning, governance and reporting
Coordinate technical and operational readiness activities for migration and cutover events
Capture lessons learned from delivery and migration waves to improve subsequent waves

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or equivalent, supporting technical delivery teams
• Strong practical experience facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement
• Demonstrable experience coaching teams to improve agile maturity, ownership and delivery effectiveness
• Strong backlog-management skills, working with Product Owners and Technical Leads to establish clear priorities and outcomes
• Strong experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, actions and impediments across multiple teams
• Experience in a governed programme environment with fixed migration milestones or business deadlines
• Practical understanding of agile delivery alongside programme governance, project management, architecture, change and operational processes
• Experience with applications, networks, cloud, infrastructure or other enterprise technology delivery is strongly desirable
• Ability to understand sufficient technical context to facilitate effectively and identify when specialist intervention or escalation is required
• 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 delivery conversations
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to provide constructive challenge and know when to coach, facilitate, intervene or escalation
• Emotional intelligence to work effectively with different personalities, disciplines and levels of seniority
• Highly organised and comfortable working across multiple workstreams
• Focus on outcomes rather than ceremonies

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Delivery, facilitating sprint planning, managing backlogs, and coaching teams to enhance agile maturity and delivery effectiveness. Proficient in coordinating dependencies and risks across multiple teams while maintaining governance and visibility in a governed programme environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Scrum Master Experience
• Agile Delivery Lead
• Backlog Management
• Dependency Management
• Agile Metrics

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Sprint Planning
• Backlog Refinement
• Agile Ceremonies
• Technical Context Understanding
• Delivery Metrics Analysis
• Migration Planning
• Risk Management
• Change Management
• Programme Governance
• Technical Delivery

Soft Skills

• Excellent Communication
• Emotional Intelligence
• Facilitation Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Constructive Challenge

Industry Keywords

• Agile Delivery
• Technical Delivery Teams
• Governed Programme Environment
• Enterprise Technology Delivery
• Cloud Infrastructure

Tools & Technologies

• Agile Planning Tools
• Collaboration Tools
• Reporting Tools