Scrum Master - Digital
Posted Today by Caraffi Limited
£550 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The role of Scrum Master focuses on leading agile delivery for digital implementation within a utilities client, emphasizing the need for travel to Bradford 2-3 days a week. The position is integral to driving digital transformation and enhancing operational efficiency through high-performing teams. The Scrum Master will facilitate agile ceremonies and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic goals. This is a 6-month contract with potential for extension, classified as inside IR35.
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 life cycle 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): £550 per day
City: Bradford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Scrum Master - Digital - Hybrid with travel to Bradford (2 - 3 days a week), Inside IR35, 6 months + extension - £500 - £550 per day
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 life cycle 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
Scrum Master - Digital - Hybrid with travel to Bradford (2 - 3 days a week), Inside IR35, 6 months + extension - £500 - £550 per day