Role Description
The Scrum Master plays a pivotal role in enabling high-performing, agile delivery within Digital Information & Data teams. Acting as a servant-leader, the Scrum Master ensures that agile principles are consistently applied, fosters a culture of continuous improvement, and supports the team in delivering incremental business value. The role focuses on guiding cross-functional data teams, optimising flow, removing delivery impediments, and coaching stakeholders on agile ways of working. Within an organisation, the Scrum Master contributes to building robust digital and data capabilities that support strategic defence objectives, operating with trust, discipline, and a commitment to excellence.
Key Accountabilities
- Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies and ensure adherence to agile values, principles, and frameworks.
- Support backlog refinement, ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and alignment to business value.
- Enable high-quality sprint planning by ensuring scope, dependencies, and capacity are well understood.
- Identify and remove impediments to maintain delivery momentum and protect the team from external disruptions.
- Champion continuous improvement by promoting retrospectives, actionable insights, and measurable process enhancements.
- Act as an agile coach for the team and wider stakeholders, supporting adoption and maturity of agile practices.
- Foster collaboration across multidisciplinary digital and data teams to support iterative delivery and alignment with strategic goals.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (essential for engineering roles).
Skills and Experience
Essential
Desirable
Essential
- Scrum Master in agile delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of agile frameworks and delivery practices.
- Strong understanding of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and supporting delivery practices.
- Proven ability to facilitate ceremonies, manage team dynamics, and maintain a high-trust working environment.
- Experience working with digital and data delivery teams, ensuring iterative value creation.
- Competence in removing impediments, managing risks, and driving continuous improvement culture.
Desirable
- Experience in highly regulated environments (defense, finance).
- Familiarity with technical delivery contexts, including data engineering and digital platforms.
- Familiarity with technical delivery
- Exposure to scaled agile environments (SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale).
- Professional certifications such as PSM, CSM, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent.