Scrum Master
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Job Description
Scrum Master improving agile delivery for uMed, a clinical research technology platform. Facilitating ceremonies, removing impediments, and coaching product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Enable one or more product and engineering teams to deliver work effectively through strong agile practices, facilitation, continuous improvement, and removal of delivery impediments
- Own the team's agile delivery process and ways of working
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Coach teams in agile principles and practices and improve agile maturity
- Establish effective delivery practices including backlog refinement, estimation, technical design discussions, dependency management, and transparent delivery planning
- Identify and remove blockers, escalating issues outside the team
- Support sprint planning, capacity management, workflow monitoring, and sustainable delivery pace
- Manage cross-team delivery dependencies and improve sprint predictability
- Track retrospective actions and delivery metrics such as velocity, cycle time, sprint predictability, and flow
- Identify recurring process challenges and address root causes with Product and Engineering leadership
- Protect team focus and foster open, constructive discussion of risks and differing viewpoints
- Encourage collaboration across Product, Engineering, and QA and support onboarding
- Provide sprint and release updates, surface delivery risks, and maintain accurate Jira reporting
- Provide visibility of upcoming changes to support operational readiness and product configuration activities
Requirements:
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master supporting cross-functional software development teams
- Demonstrated ability to improve team delivery effectiveness using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid agile practices
- Experience coaching cross-functional teams and improving agile maturity through practical guidance
- Strong facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong experience using Jira or equivalent agile delivery tooling
- Proactive problem-solving and ownership of removing delivery impediments
- Pragmatic application of agile practices focused on delivery outcomes
- Excellent communication skills and ability to challenge unhelpful behaviors constructively
- Calm, organized, highly collaborative, and able to influence without direct authority
- Understanding of, or willingness to learn, delivery considerations in regulated healthcare or medtech
- Recognized Scrum or Agile certification is desirable but not essential
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment is desirable
Benefits:
- Private Health Insurance to keep you covered
- Pension Plan to help you secure your future
- 25 days of paid time off
- Work From Home equipment budget
- Flexible Benefits platform
- Birthday Day Off
- Eye-test vouchers for Specsavers
- Coworking policy
- Enhanced Parental Leave

















