Senior Scrum Master - Agile Delivery Lead

Senior Scrum Master – Agile Delivery Manager

Remote

Permanent

People. Not just lawyers

We’re not your typical law firm – we’re people with a passion for helping our clients and each other achieve the best possible outcomes. We are leading legal advisers to the insurance and commercial sectors across the UK & Ireland, known for our innovation, client focus, and long-lasting relationships. We do things differently, with a forward-thinking approach built around our clients’ needs, supported by cutting-edge technology and a culture built around people from a wide range of backgrounds who are taking an equally wide range of routes to building their careers in law.

• Take accountability for the team's delivery against agreed Sprint, PI and wider programme commitments.
• Maintain a clear understanding of delivery progress, priorities, dependencies, risks and blockers.
• Identify when delivery is falling behind and proactively establish the underlying cause.
• Constructively challenge the team where progress, ownership or pace is below expectations.
• Drive blockers and impediments through to resolution rather than simply recording or reporting them.
• Escalate issues quickly and appropriately where resolution sits outside the team's control.
• Work closely with Product Owners, engineering, testing, business SMEs and other delivery teams to resolve cross-team dependencies.
• Maintain a strong focus on outcomes and completed work, not simply activity or ceremony.

• Lead and continuously improve the team's Agile delivery practices.
• Facilitate effective Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Refinement, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Ensure Sprint Goals are meaningful, understood and actively managed throughout the Sprint.
• Lead effective PI Planning and delivery against committed PI Objectives.
• Drive high standards around Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, estimation, capacity planning and backlog readiness.
• Use retrospectives and delivery data to identify improvements and ensure agreed actions translate into measurable change.
• Promote accountability and ownership within the team rather becoming the team's task manager.

• Maintain a clear delivery plan and understand whether upcoming milestones and commitments remain achievable.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and work streams.
• Ensure emerging delivery risks are identified early rather than becoming last-minute surprises.
• Work with the Product Owner to ensure the team has sufficient prioritised, refined and delivery-ready work.
• Balance Agile principles with the practical realities of delivery within a complex enterprise programme.

• Own accurate and transparent reporting of team delivery performance.
• Use delivery metrics to understand performance and support evidence-based conclusions.
• Translate detailed delivery information into clear executive messages covering progress, confidence, risks, impact and required decisions.
• Ensure reporting provides an honest view of delivery health rather than simply reporting that activity is taking place.

• Significant experience as a Scrum Master and/or Delivery Manager within technology environments.
• Strong practical knowledge of Scrum, Agile and preferably SAFe.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams including developers, testers, analysts, platform specialists and Product Owners.
• An understanding of software delivery and the SDLC.
• Experience managing delivery risks, dependencies, blockers and competing priorities.
• Strong delivery reporting and analytical capability.
• Experience using Jira or comparable Agile delivery tooling.
• The ability…