Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Business Agility Lead

Job Title: Business Agility Lead Location: Chester /Halifax

Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite Contract Length: 3 months

Pay rate: £400 - £550 pwd via Umbrella Hours: Full Time

About the Opportunity

We're seeking an experienced Business Agility Lead to partner with cross-functional Labs, driving effectiveness, efficiency and predictability across teams. In this role you'll support the transition to a data-led approach, helping teams deliver value faster, improve flow of work, and embed sustainable agile practices.

You'll work directly with Lab Leaders to coach, guide, and uplift capability-ensuring teams build the tools and maturity needed to self-manage over time. This position plays a key part in refining agile delivery, improving data quality, and supporting teams to use metrics and insights to make informed decisions.

What You'll Be Doing

• Supporting agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks) with coaching and continuous improvement
• Using real-time data to enhance speed-to-market, efficiency and predictability
• Ensuring high-quality use of JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
• Helping to establish new agile teams and uplift agile ways of working
• Coaching teams on problem-solving approaches such as process mapping, value hypothesis development and brainstorming
• Working with teams across varying levels of agile maturity-from early adopters to highly developed practices

What You'll Need

• Proven experience as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master (relevant certifications preferred)
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery metrics and evidence-based decision making
• Experience influencing senior leadership in agile ways of working
• Hands-on experience using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
• Ability to drive data quality and coach teams in tooling and workflow discipline
• Strong problem-solving mindset, using data and insights to support performance

Desirable

• Agile certifications (e.g., PSM I, PSM II, PK1 or similar)

If this sounds like your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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