Scrum Master/Delivery Manager

Knutsford
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Scrum Master/Delivery Manager
Location: Hybrid 60% office-40% remote Knutsford
Duration: 30/10/2026
Rate £706
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:
"Overview:
The Scrum Master / Delivery Manager is responsible for day?to?day Agile delivery, facilitating ceremonies, ensuring sprint discipline, and enabling high?performing engineering teams. This hybrid role supports both coaching responsibilities and delivery oversight of backlog, teams, and sprint execution.
Key Responsibilities:

Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand?ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
Manage sprint governance, velocity tracking, forecasting, and delivery reporting.
Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and team collaboration.
Work closely with Product Owners to prioritise and refine the backlog, ensuring clarity of user stories, acceptance criteria, and readiness for development.
Remove impediments, manage risks, and escalate blockers that impact sprint delivery.
Coach teams on Agile principles, practices, and ways of working.
Ensure alignment across cross?functional roles including developers, testers, UX, and business SMEs.
Maintain delivery tracking in tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
Support release planning, dependency management, and coordination with other teams in scaled environments.
Ensure delivery transparency through dashboards, metrics, and progress reporting.
Technical/Delivery Components:

Practical experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS).
Understanding of SDLC processes, DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance practices.
Ability to interpret technical conversations and support decision-making without needing deep engineering expertise

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