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# Scrum Master

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £58,400.0 - £74,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Scrum Methodology, Systems Integration
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/DB577C6188BC49278F422AFF55644B76/job/

## About the Role

* Scrum and agile delivery
 * Facilitation and team coaching
 * Backlog refinement and sprint planning
 * Dependency and impediment management
 * Agile metrics, flow and reporting
 * Release and programme increment planning
 * Retrospective design and continuous improvement
 * Jira, Confluence or equivalent tooling
 * Conflict resolution and stakeholder communication
 * Value-focused delivery practices

Required experience:

 * Scrum Master or agile delivery experience with multidisciplinary technology teams.
 * Experience supporting product owners, analysts, engineers and testers through the delivery lifecycle.
 * Experience working across virtual, distributed or multi-location teams.
 * Evidence of improving team delivery practices and resolving impediments.

Desired experience:

 * Multi-team or scaled agile delivery, including SAFe.
 * Enterprise transformation or complex systems integration.
 * Agile coaching or Scrum certification.

## Description

Enterprise Supply Chain Services (ESCS) is part of the Leidos UK solution responsible for sourcing and procurement, inventory, planning and order management.

The team is developing a new supply chain management system, initially as a technical demonstrator, with the aim of developing it into a production-ready solution.

Our Scrum Master is responsible for enabling one or more ESCS delivery teams to work effectively using Scrum and wider agile practices. You will facilitate planning and delivery, removes impediments, supports transparent reporting and coaches the team towards sustainable continuous improvement.

The role you will play:

 * Create an effective delivery cadence and protect team focus.
 * Connect team-level delivery with programme priorities, dependencies and release plans.
 * Use evidence and facilitation to help the team improve flow, predictability and quality., * Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
 * Work with business and technical leads to maintain a ready, prioritised and understood backlog.
 * Track impediments, dependencies, risks and actions through to resolution.
 * Support programme increment, release and cross-team planning where applicable.
 * Use delivery metrics responsibly to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
 * Coach team members and stakeholders in agile values, roles and effective collaboration.
 * Support distributed teams and maintain inclusive, outcome-focused ceremonies.
 * Promote continuous improvement without compromising delivery transparency.