Scrum Master

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office 3 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Scrum Master

As the Scrum Master, you will play a key role in guiding Agile delivery within the Software Development department. You will collaborate closely with the development team to ensure that Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are met and products are successfully delivered, all while adhering to the Kanban framework.

You’ll receive a salary of up to £50,000 depending on experiece, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Lead and serve in Scrum meetings: refinements, daily stand-ups, stakeholder meetings, and retrospectives
• Oversee squad progress using JIRA Kanban boards
• Remove blockers inhibiting squad progress
• Liaise with the Product Owner to ensure clear project deliverables
• Communicate progress to business sponsors, key stakeholders, and external clients, where appropriate
• Empower the development team to deliver the required product solution

What you’ll bring to the role

You'll have experience leading or assisting in Scrum project delivery and you should also bring expertise in the following key areas:

• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisational skills
• High level of self-motivation and attention to detail.
• Scrum Certification

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!