{"id":203726,"url":"https://alion.io/job/methods-scrum-master-applications-network","title":"Scrum Master - Applications & Network","company":{"id":6935,"name":"Methods","domain":"methods.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/methods-business-and-digital-technology","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":33,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.364,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":42,"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":70000,"max_usd":157000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":270},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T17:46:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":55,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":55},"description":"Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited\nMethods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.\nOur human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.\nWe support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.\nPredominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.\nMethods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.\nAbout the role\nWe are looking for an experienced Applications & Network Scrum Master to join a major transformation programme and enable effective agile delivery across our applications and network squads.\nThis is a hands-on delivery role focused on creating the environment in which multidisciplinary technical teams can perform at their best. You will bring structure, transparency and momentum to delivery, helping teams maintain clear priorities, manage dependencies, remove blockers and deliver against agreed migration outcomes.\nYou will work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Project Managers and wider programme teams to ensure that application and network delivery remains aligned with the programme roadmap and migration waves.\nThe role will sit at the heart of delivery, connecting the day-to-day activity of the squads with the wider programme. You will help teams balance agile ways of working with the realities of a complex, governed transformation programme, including fixed milestones, technical dependencies, testing requirements and cutover activity.\nWe are looking for someone who can facilitate effectively without becoming overly process-driven; someone who can coach teams towards greater ownership and predictability while also providing constructive challenge when commitments, dependencies or delivery risks need to be addressed.\nWhat you will do\nAs the Applications & Network Scrum Master, you will support one or more multidisciplinary squads and help establish a consistent, effective approach to agile delivery.\nYou will:\nFacilitate sprint planning, daily coordination, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement and other agreed agile ceremonies.\nEnsure ceremonies are purposeful, inclusive and focused on achieving clear delivery outcomes rather than simply following process.\nWork with Product Owners and Technical Leads to maintain prioritised, refined, ready and outcome-focused backlogs.\nHelp teams break down complex technical and migration activity into achievable increments that can be planned, delivered and demonstrated.\nTrack delivery flow, sprint commitments, blockers, risks, dependencies and emerging issues across application and network workstreams.\nIdentify impediments early and work with the appropriate teams to remove or escalate them before they impact delivery.\nCoordinate dependencies and interfaces with identity, infrastructure, security, testing, cutover, change and other programme teams.\nMaintain visibility of cross-squad dependencies and ensure actions and decisions are clearly owned and followed through.\nSupport realistic sprint and release planning, ensuring commitments are based on team capacity, technical readiness and known dependencies.\nEncourage clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready and definition of done so that teams understand what successful delivery looks like.\nMaintain clear visibility of progress against migration waves, key milestones and programme outcomes.\nProvide timely escalation of delivery risks, blockers and dependencies where they cannot be resolved within the squad.\nUse appropriate agile metrics and delivery data to understand flow, predictability, capacity, throughput and emerging delivery trends.\nUse team feedback, retrospectives and delivery evidence to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.\nCoach squads in agile principles and behaviours, encouraging ownership, collaboration, transparency and continuous learning.\nHelp protect delivery teams from unnecessary disruption while ensuring that programme-level commitments and governance requirements remain visible and understood.\nWork with Project Managers and Programme Leads to ensure agile delivery integrates effectively with wider programme planning, governance and reporting.\nSupport the coordination of technical and operational readiness activities leading into migration and cutover events.\nHelp ensure lessons learned from each delivery or migration wave are captured and used to improve subsequent waves.\nThe delivery environment\nThis is not a pure software-development Scrum role. You will be operating within a complex technology transformation, where applications, networks, infrastructure, identity, security and operational teams need to work together to deliver migration outcomes.\nThe squads may therefore contain a mixture of technical disciplines, and delivery will often involve dependencies that sit outside the immediate team's control.\nYou will need to be comfortable working in an environment where priorities can change, technical issues can emerge unexpectedly and delivery is governed by wider programme milestones.\nThe ability to distinguish between a genuine blocker and a problem that the team can solve themselves will be important. Equally, you will need the confidence to challenge unrealistic commitments, unclear requirements or unmanaged dependencies and ensure that issues are surfaced early rather than becoming late-stage surprises.\nThe successful candidate will help create a culture where progress is visible, commitments are realistic, blockers are actively managed and teams continuously improve.\nRequirements\nSkills and experience required\nWe are looking for an experienced Scrum Master or Agile Delivery professional with a strong track record of working with multidisciplinary technical teams.\nYou will ideally have:\nProven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or equivalent, supporting technical delivery teams.\nStrong practical experience facilitating agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.\nDemonstrable experience supporting and coaching teams to improve their agile maturity, ownership and delivery effectiveness.\nStrong backlog-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product Owners and Technical Leads to establish clear priorities and delivery outcomes.\nStrong experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, actions and impediments across multiple teams.\nExperience working within a governed programme environment where agile teams are working towards fixed migration milestones or business deadlines.\nPractical understanding of how agile delivery operates alongside programme governance, project management, architecture, change and operational processes.\nExperience working with applications, networks, cloud, infrastructure or other enterprise technology delivery is strongly desirable.\nThe ability to understand enough technical context to facilitate effectively and identify when an issue requires specialist intervention or escalation.\nExperience working with architects, engineers, developers, infrastructure specialists, security teams, Product Owners, Project Managers and customer stakeholders.\nConfidence using common agile planning, collaboration and reporting tools.\nExperience using delivery metrics to identify trends, improve predictability and support evidence-based conversations about delivery.\nWhat we are looking for in you\nYou will be an excellent facilitator and communicator who can bring people together around a common outcome.\nYou will be comfortable asking difficult questions and providing constructive challenge without creating unnecessary friction. You will know when to coach, when to facilitate, when to intervene and when to escalate.\nYou will have the emotional intelligence to work effectively with different personalities, disciplines and levels of seniority, creating an environment where people feel able to raise issues and challenge assumptions.\nYou will also be highly organised and comfortable working across multiple workstreams. You will naturally look beyond the immediate sprint to understand how dependencies, risks and decisions could affect the wider migration programme.\nMost importantly, you will be focused on outcomes rather than ceremonies. Agile processes are important, but your measure of success will be whether teams are becoming more predictable, dependencies are being managed effectively and the programme is successfully delivering its migration objectives.\nLocation : Hybrid London - the role will be based in London hybrid 50/50 - At the beginning there will be more time onsite than remote and then it will become hybrid.\nBenefits\nMethods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.\nBy joining us you can expect:\n· Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience\n· Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society\n· Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership\n· A supportive and collaborative environment\nAs well as this we offer:\nDevelopment - access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training\nWellness - 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme\nFlexible Working - including home working and part time\nSocial - 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