Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our Internal Technology Team!
Softcat is an amazing success story and as part of our continued growth we are investing significantly more in a new technology strategy going forward. Softcat's internal Technology Team is undergoing an exciting transformation this evolution aims to provide greater opportunities for our people's professional development and prepare us to execute our more ambitious technology strategy effectively.
Success. The Softcat Way.
We're passionate about what we do, how we do it and the positive impact our technologies have on the lives of our employees and customers.
As a Scrum Master, you'll support a product or platform-led squad in delivering value through Agile ways of working. Acting as a coach and facilitator, you'll help the team stay focused on priorities, work effectively together and continuously improve, while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability and learning.
As the Scrum Master, you'll be responsible for:
- Facilitate consistent Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Guide teams in understanding roles, events and artefacts within Scrum.
- Work with the Product Owner to ensure backlog items are refined, understood and ready for development.
- Track delivery metrics and help teams understand trends or opportunities for improvement.
- Promote working agreements and estimates that improve predictability and throughput.
- Escalate blockers the team cannot resolve themselves.
We'd love you to have:
- Experience supporting Agile or Scrum teams.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills with a collaborative, coaching‑focused style.
- Understanding of Agile principles and Scrum mechanics.
- Ability to identify and escalate risks, blockers and dependencies.
- Ability to work effectively with Product Owners, technical teams and stakeholders.
We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Hybrid working – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
- Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/
Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.
