Scrum Master
Junior Scrum Master
📍 Location: Farnborough (4 days per week on-site)
⏰ Hours: 37.5 per week
🗓️ Start Date: ASAP
(Allows time for DV clearance checks and alignment with project kick-off. Interviews and offers can take place earlier.)
📄 Contract Duration: 7 months
💷 Pay Rate: £600–£700 per day (Umbrella)
⚖️ IR35: Inside IR35
🔐 Clearance Required:
- Clearance for Role: DV
- ➡️ Candidate must already hold active DV Clearance
⭐ Top 3 Key Requirements
- 🚀 Strong Agile delivery experience — especially using SAFe
- 📊 Understanding, analysing and reporting Sprint performance
- 🗣️ Excellent communication & facilitation skills — confident running SCRUM events
📝 Job Description
We are looking for a Junior Scrum Master to support the delivery of an important IT application and infrastructure solution for a mission-critical end user. You will join a motivated, high-performing team working on one of the UK’s leading programmes.
The successful candidate will be a qualified Scrum Master with hands-on experience across the Agile lifecycle and the ability to operate effectively within demanding timeframes.
✅ Required Skills
- 🚀 Agile delivery experience, particularly using SAFe
- 📅 Competence in facilitating SCRUM ceremonies: Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives
- 📊 Strong grasp of Sprint performance metrics, including how to measure and evaluate Sprint efficiency
- 🧩 Experience partnering with Product Owners to define, prioritise and refine backlog items
- 🌍 Proven ability to work with distributed SCRUM teams, both virtually and onsite
- 🏗️ Background contributing to complex IT solutions for large government bodies or major private organisations
- 🚗 Willingness to travel to Client and customer sites as required
- ✍️ Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence working across multiple stakeholder groups
🔎 Desirable Skills
- 🏛️ Experience delivering IT services into UK government departments
- 📚 Knowledge of asset and knowledge discovery, including producing knowledge articles
- 🎯 Experience coaching Agile team members