Scrum Master
Posted 4 days ago by Burns Sheehan
£380 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Scrum Master / Delivery Support role involves providing hands-on support for multiple product and delivery workstreams within a major international logistics real estate business. The position focuses on maintaining organization, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and ensuring effective delivery coordination across various initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience in Agile delivery and be comfortable in a structured support capacity. This contract role is set to run until the end of 2026 and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement sessions and other core Agile ceremonies across 2-3 workstreams.
- Support Product Owners and delivery teams with the administrative side of delivery, ensuring tickets are created properly, assigned correctly and tracked through to completion.
- Maintain Jira boards, manage ticket hygiene and ensure delivery activity is clearly structured and visible.
- Help coordinate release schedules, making sure teams are prepared for upcoming changes and that the relevant documentation and evidence is in place.
- Provide consistent delivery support across multiple teams, helping create rhythm, structure and accountability.
- Keep moving parts under control across several active streams, ensuring ceremonies, actions and dependencies do not slip.
- Operate as a practical and organised junior-to-mid-level Scrum support professional rather than a highly senior Agile coach.
Key Skills:
- Around 2+ years of experience supporting Agile delivery, Scrum ceremonies or similar team coordination activity.
- A Scrum certification would be useful.
- Prior experience using Jira for board management, ticket tracking and delivery coordination is essential.
- Comfortable supporting Product Owners or delivery managers with planning, coordination and admin.
- Able to help manage release schedules and ensure teams are prepared for governance and change processes.
- Organised, dependable and happy working in a role focused on delivery support rather than high-level transformation leadership.
- This role is suited to someone junior-to-mid-level rather than a senior Scrum Master.
Salary (Rate): £380 per day
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Scrum Master / Delivery Support - £380 per day - Outside IR35 contract to end of 2026
A major international logistics real estate business, responsible for operating and optimising a large portfolio of assets across multiple markets, is seeking a contract Scrum Master / Delivery Support professional. The business is delivering a range of data and product-led initiatives and needs someone to bring structure, coordination and day-to-day delivery discipline across a number of active workstreams.
The Scrum Master / Delivery Support role: This is a hands-on contract supporting multiple product and delivery workstreams in a business going through ongoing change across its data and technology landscape. The role is less about senior stakeholder strategy and more about keeping teams organised, delivery ceremonies running properly, Jira boards in good shape and releases coordinated. It would suit someone who is comfortable working in a structured support capacity, helping Product Owners and delivery leads keep momentum across several parallel initiatives.
Scrum Master / Delivery Support Key Responsibilities:
- Ceremony Management: Run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement sessions and other core Agile ceremonies across 2-3 workstreams.
- Delivery Administration: Support Product Owners and delivery teams with the administrative side of delivery, ensuring tickets are created properly, assigned correctly and tracked through to completion.
- Jira Management: Maintain Jira boards, manage ticket hygiene and ensure delivery activity is clearly structured and visible.
- Release Coordination: Help coordinate release schedules, making sure teams are prepared for upcoming changes and that the relevant documentation and evidence is in place.
- Workstream Support: Provide consistent delivery support across multiple teams, helping create rhythm, structure and accountability.
- Team Organisation: Keep moving parts under control across several active streams, ensuring ceremonies, actions and dependencies do not slip.
- Low-Complexity Delivery Support: Operate as a practical and organised junior-to-mid-level Scrum support professional rather than a highly senior Agile coach.
Scrum Master / Delivery Support Requirements:
- Scrum Experience: Around 2+ years of experience supporting Agile delivery, Scrum ceremonies or similar team coordination activity.
- Certified Scrum Master: A Scrum certification would be useful.
- Jira Experience: Prior experience using Jira for board management, ticket tracking and delivery coordination is essential.
- Structured Delivery Support: Comfortable supporting Product Owners or delivery managers with planning, coordination and admin.
- Release Awareness: Able to help manage release schedules and ensure teams are prepared for governance and change processes.
- Practical Approach: Organised, dependable and happy working in a role focused on delivery support rather than high-level transformation leadership.
- Level Fit: This role is suited to someone junior-to-mid-level rather than a senior Scrum Master.
Additional details:
Day rate: Up to c. £380 per day
Duration: Contract running to the end of 2026
Location: Hybrid
Are you a delivery-focused Scrum Master or Agile support professional who enjoys bringing structure, organisation and momentum to busy product and technology teams? Do you want a contract role where you can support multiple workstreams inside a large international business operating at scale?
Scrum Master / Delivery Support - £380 per day - Outside IR35 contract to end of 2026