6 Scrum jobs in Edinburgh

Our client is seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Scrum Master & Agile Coach to join their innovative digital transformation team. This role is exclusively remote, allowing you to leverage your expertise from anywhere in the UK and contribute to a fully distributed, high-performing organisation. You will be responsible for facilitating multiple agile teams, fostering an environment of continuous improvement, and driving agile adoption across the organisation. As a servant leader, you will guide teams in adopting and mastering agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and coach individuals and teams on agile principles and best practices. Your responsibilities include removing impediments, facilitating agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives), and ensuring transparency and effective communication. You will mentor Scrum Masters and team members, helping them grow their agile capabilities and overcome challenges. A significant part of this role involves coaching stakeholders at all levels, promoting an agile mindset, and supporting organisational change initiatives. You will help teams to self-organise, cross-function, and deliver high-quality value consistently. Experience with scaling agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS) is highly desirable. You will also contribute to establishing and refining agile metrics and reporting to track team progress and identify areas for improvement. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional facilitation, coaching, and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence and lead change in complex environments. A deep understanding of agile values and principles, coupled with practical experience in delivering complex projects, is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate multiple Scrum teams, ensuring adherence to agile principles and practices.
• Coach and mentor Scrum Masters and team members on agile methodologies.
• Remove impediments and blockers to team progress.
• Facilitate all agile ceremonies effectively and efficiently.
• Drive continuous improvement within teams and across the organisation.
• Coach stakeholders at various levels on agile adoption and mindset.
• Promote self-organisation, cross-functionality, and high performance within teams.
• Assist in establishing and refining agile metrics and reporting mechanisms.
• Support organisational change initiatives related to agile transformation.
• Contribute to the development of the agile community of practice.
• Ensure transparency and effective communication across all levels.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification required.
• Advanced certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) are highly desirable.
• Proven experience coaching multiple agile teams and individuals.
• Deep understanding of agile principles, values, and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in organisational change management.
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fully remote environment.
• Proficiency with agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

This is a transformative opportunity for an experienced Agile leader to significantly impact our client's agile journey and foster a culture of innovation, all from your home office near Edinburgh, Scotland, UK .

Our client is looking for an accomplished and visionary Lead Agile Scrum Master to drive best practices and foster a high-performing agile culture across multiple product teams, working entirely remotely. This senior role demands a deep understanding of Agile principles, Scrum frameworks, and various software development methodologies. You will be instrumental in coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters and development teams, facilitating complex agile events, and removing impediments at an organizational level. Your primary focus will be to guide teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement, ensuring successful delivery of high-quality software products. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills, enabling them to effectively navigate challenging team dynamics and stakeholder relationships.

As a Lead Scrum Master, you will champion Agile adoption and transformation initiatives. This includes defining and refining agile processes, metrics, and tools to enhance team productivity and product quality. You will work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on vision, roadmap, and delivery objectives. A key part of your role will involve identifying and addressing systemic impediments that hinder team velocity and organizational agility. You will also contribute to building a knowledge-sharing community of practice for Scrum Masters and Agile coaches within the organization. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead by example and make a lasting impact on our client's software development lifecycle in a fully remote setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and mentor Scrum Masters and development teams in adopting and mastering Agile and Scrum practices.
• Facilitate key Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring their effectiveness and value.
• Identify, track, and facilitate the removal of organizational impediments hindering team progress and agility.
• Promote and drive continuous improvement within teams and across the organization by introducing new agile techniques and practices.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure clear articulation and understanding of the product backlog and release goals.
• Develop and maintain agile metrics and reporting dashboards to visualize team progress, performance, and areas for improvement.
• Champion Agile principles and values, fostering a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
• Guide teams in building high-quality, shippable increments of work consistently.
• Contribute to the Agile Center of Excellence or community of practice, sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Provide guidance on scaling Agile methodologies as the organization grows.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior Scrum Master role.
• Extensive experience with Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum and Kanban, and a deep understanding of their application.
• Proven experience in coaching multiple Agile teams simultaneously.
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), or equivalent Agile certifications (e.g., SAFe Scrum Master).
• Excellent facilitation, communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and practices (CI/CD, TDD, BDD).
• Experience with Agile project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• Ability to work independently and effectively manage multiple priorities in a remote environment.
• Demonstrated experience in driving organizational change and agile transformations.

This fully remote position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and the opportunity to significantly influence our client's agile journey from anywhere in the UK.

**Job Description Summary**
The Staff Technical Product Owner is an integral member of the product engineering team. This role uses domain and business process expertise to elaborate and convey detailed product requirements in the form of epics and user stories, together with supporting artifacts (such as business process maps and use cases) to the software development teams.
**Job Description**
**Roles and Responsibilities**
In this role, the Staff Technical Product Owner will ensure that requirements for the near-term upcoming development are sufficiently elaborated, such that the delivery team is enabled to estimate, plan and commit to delivery with high confidence. In addition, the role requires leadership, coaching, mentoring and working in direct collaboration with other global BA teams for an efficient and consistent process resulting in quality deliverables from the engineering team.
+ Drives process definitions and improvements for agile development.
+ Captures the voice of the customer to drive business process definitions and product needs.
+ Work directly with engineering lead to manage the business analysis activities to meet engineering and product goals.
+ Develop positive working relationships with external customers and users.
+ Work directly with Product Managers and / or customers to define scope and value for new developments.
+ Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to prioritize scope for releases and groom the Product backlog.
+ Responsible for ensuring that non-functional requirements exist and are prioritized alongside the functions in the Product and Release Backlogs.
+ Facilitate the breakdown of the Epic User Stories into "Sprint Sized" User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the development team.
+ Ensure that the features in the User Stories / requirements are expressed in a way that all members of the team, and stakeholders, clearly understand the requirements and how they fit into the product backlog.
+ Collaborate closely with UX to ensure requirements, scenarios, business process maps and other artifacts align with User Experience designs.
+ Define requirement acceptance criteria with input from customers, product managers, and the engineering team. Generate and execute the required functional test cases.
+ Validates that test scenarios meet the feature acceptance criteria and customer expectations.
+ Responsible for the maintenance and quality of the documented user stories/requirements in the defined requirements management tool.
+ Throughout the development cycle, remain focused on the software being produced and whether it meets the requirements. Proactively provide relevant feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
+ Develop and be prepared to execute effective demonstrations of the product, to internal and external stakeholders.
+ Maintain leading edge understanding of technologies and industry trends relevant to the application via training, webinars, on-line journals, Trade Shows and User Groups.
+ Lead other business analysts, agree, and monitor objectives and undertake regular feedback.
**Education Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related major, and a minimum of 5 years of experience.
**Desired Characteristics:**
+ Relevant electrical utility industry knowledge or expertise
+ An understanding of best practice business analysis methods and tools
+ Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum)
+ Results driven person with strong interpersonal skills.
+ Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
+ Able to energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people, encouraging input from all members of the team.
+ Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility.
+ Willingness to travel both regionally and internationally.
**Business Acumen:**
+ Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
+ Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
+ Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
+ Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
**Leadership:**
+ Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
+ Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.
+ Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
+ Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
**Personal Attributes:**
+ Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
+ Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
+ Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
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**Additional Information**
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** No
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