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Scrum Master
Reason for Reporting
If you’re someone who loves enabling teams to reach their potential and want to build a long-term career in an evolving Agile Organisation, this is the place for you!
What will you do?
Reporting directly to the Release Train Engineer (RTE), you’ll be supporting two or more cross-functional teams within a larger value stream or product ecosystem, working alongside other experienced Scrum Masters. The Scrum Master is co-located with their teams and work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Testers, Business Stakeholders, and other Scrum Masters to drive alignment, flow, and continuous improvement. Beyond the team, you’ll contribute to the broader Agile Community of practice and help strengthen delivery maturity, coach
new team members and shape the culture of agility across the organisation.
You will also collaborate with the RTE to:
- Ensure alignment with Agile Release Train objectives.
- Escalate systemic impediments and risks.
- Support program-level ceremonies such as PI Planning, ART Syncs, and System Demos.
- Provide visibility into team progress, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
What will make you successful in this role?
- Coach and enable cross-functional teams to operate as empowered, self-managing units
- Foster a culture of trust, accountability and psychological safety
- Facilitate Scrum and flow-based cadences with clarity and purpose
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain a healthy, outcome-focused backlog
- Improve delivery flow by reducing bottlenecks and making work visible
- Surface systemic constraints and collaborate to resolve them
- Support cross-team planning, coordination and alignment forums
- Help teams deliver usable increments on a consistent, sustainable cadence
- Promote empirical learning through transparency, inspection and adaptation
- Contribute to continuous improvement beyond the team — at value stream or portfolio level
- Actively participate in PI Planning, ART Syncs, and Inspect & Adapt workshops, ensuring team alignment with program-level priorities under the guidance of the RTE
- Provide regular updates and insights to the RTE, ensuring program-level visibility and alignment
Qualifications
- Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma)
- Relevant Agile Certifications (CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, PSM I, PSM II, SSM, SASM, SA, ICP)
Experience
- 4+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach or delivery leader.
- Strong understanding of Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean and product-oriented delivery) and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
- Exceptional facilitation and coaching skills, able to create safe spaces for honest conversations, learning and accountability.
- Proven ability to influ
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