Digital Scrum Master
Posted 1 week ago by Caraffi Limited
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Bradford, UK
Summary: The role of Digital Scrum Master involves leading agile delivery for a utilities client focused on digital transformation. This position requires an experienced professional to facilitate agile practices, enhance team performance, and ensure alignment with strategic goals. The Scrum Master will work in a hybrid capacity, requiring travel to the Bradford office 2-3 days per week. The contract is initially for 6 months, emphasizing the importance of delivering innovative digital solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead agile ceremonies across digital implementation teams, including stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
- Coach teams and individuals to improve agile maturity and delivery effectiveness in a digital context
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Customer Experience, and business stakeholders to prioritise digital journeys and backlog items
- Maintain visibility of progress through digital Scrum boards and shared reporting tools
- Shield teams from distractions and ensure focused delivery aligned to digital transformation milestones
- Use empirical data to forecast deliverables and optimise sprint velocity
- Drive continuous improvement across digital development, testing, and deployment cycles
- Promote agile best practices across the Scrum Master and PM community
- Identify opportunities for innovation in digital delivery and user experience
- Support the development of the Technology Blueprint and contribute to the annual Business Plan
- Collaborate across IT and the wider Kelda Group to ensure seamless digital service delivery
Key Skills:
- Proven experience delivering digital products using Scrum or Kanban in large-scale IT environments
- Strong understanding of agile delivery in digital transformation programmes
- Skilled in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and stakeholder engagement across business and technical domains
- Experience with customer-centric digital journeys and agile delivery frameworks
- Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organisational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Deep knowledge of the systems development lifecycle and enterprise digital solutions
- High integrity, customer focus, and a proactive mindset
- Familiarity with Agile techniques such as user stories, CI/CD, automated testing, and planning poker
- Experience with burndown metrics, sprint reporting, and backlog tracking
- Technical fluency and ability to bridge gaps between business needs and digital capabilities
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Bradford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We have exciting opportunity for an immediately available Scrum Master specialising in digital implementation to join our utilities client on an initial 6-month contract with hybrid working where you must be willing to travel to our Bradford office 2 - 3 days per week.
About the Role
The organisation is driving a bold digital transformation agenda, and they're seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead agile delivery across their digital implementation programmes. This role is central to enabling high-performing teams to deliver innovative, scalable digital solutions that enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and business agility.
As Scrum Master, you'll facilitate agile delivery across complex digital workstreams-ensuring alignment with strategic goals, fostering continuous improvement, and championing agile values across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead agile ceremonies across digital implementation teams, including stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
- Coach teams and individuals to improve agile maturity and delivery effectiveness in a digital context
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Customer Experience, and business stakeholders to prioritise digital journeys and backlog items
- Maintain visibility of progress through digital Scrum boards and shared reporting tools
- Shield teams from distractions and ensure focused delivery aligned to digital transformation milestones
- Use empirical data to forecast deliverables and optimise sprint velocity
- Drive continuous improvement across digital development, testing, and deployment cycles
- Promote agile best practices across the Scrum Master and PM community
- Identify opportunities for innovation in digital delivery and user experience
- Support the development of the Technology Blueprint and contribute to the annual Business Plan
- Collaborate across IT and the wider Kelda Group to ensure seamless digital service delivery
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Proven experience delivering digital products using Scrum or Kanban in large-scale IT environments
- Strong understanding of agile delivery in digital transformation programmes
- Skilled in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and stakeholder engagement across business and technical domains
- Experience with customer-centric digital journeys and agile delivery frameworks
- Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organisational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Deep knowledge of the systems development lifecycle and enterprise digital solutions
- High integrity, customer focus, and a proactive mindset
Desirable:
- Familiarity with Agile techniques such as user stories, CI/CD, automated testing, and planning poker
- Experience with burndown metrics, sprint reporting, and backlog tracking
- Technical fluency and ability to bridge gaps between business needs and digital capabilities