Junior Scrum Master

📍 Location: Farnborough (4 days per week on-site)

⏰ Hours: 37.5 per week

🗓️ Start Date: February 2026

(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

1. 🚀 Strong Agile delivery experience — especially using SAFe
2. 📊 Understanding, analysing and reporting Sprint performance
3. 🗣️ 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