Scrum Master | Manchester, UK

Scrum Master

Job Description

The Role

The Scrum Master is responsible for enabling high-performing, cross-functional agile teams to deliver valuable outcomes in a predictable and sustainable way. Acting as a servant-leader and coach, the Scrum Master embeds agile principles and practices, removes impediments, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency.

The role works closely with delivery teams, and stakeholders across Technology and the business to ensure effective planning, prioritisation, and delivery of change aligned to organisational objectives.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include

Agile Delivery & Team Enablement

• Act as servant-leader to one or more Scrum teams, promoting agile values, principles, and best practices.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Coach teams to become self-organising, cross-functional, and accountable for delivery outcomes.
• Support teams in estimation, refinement, sprint forecasting, and continuous improvement.

Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Guide teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders in effective agile ways of working.
• Identify and address team impediments, escalating where necessary to ensure delivery flow.
• Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and feedback.
• Actively contribute to the evolution of agile maturity across the organisation.

Stakeholder & Product Collaboration

• Partner with Product Owners to support backlog creation, refinement, prioritisation, and roadmap alignment.
• Facilitate workshops, product demos, and collaborative planning sessions.
• Support transparent communication between delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Assist stakeholders in understanding agile delivery metrics and outcomes.

Governance, Metrics & Reporting

• Track and communicate delivery metrics (e.g. velocity, throughput, flow, sprint outcomes).
• Provide insights to support planning, forecasting, and decision-making.
• Ensure agile delivery aligns with broader technology governance, risk, and control expectations.

Wider Contribution

• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and delivery professionals to improve consistency and standards.
• Support integration of third-party suppliers or delivery partners where applicable.
• Contribute to organisational change initiatives and agile communities of practice.

Qualifications

Skills

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master within agile delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of Scrum, agile principles, and software delivery lifecycles.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and communication skills.
• Experience working with Product Owners, technology teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to identify and remove impediments and manage delivery risks.
• Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of complementary frameworks (e.g. Kanban, SAFe, Lean).
• Experience supporting data, finance, or platform-based delivery teams.
• Scrum Master or Agile certification (e.g. PSM, CSM)

About Us

Our benefits

We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, non-contributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health.

About Canopius

Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd's of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.

At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results.

Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected.

We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds.

We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Please let us know if you require any information in an alternate format or any other reasonable adjustments.