Scrum master - Lorien Impellam - #2113216

Technical Scrum Master - Banking (Contract)

London or Edinburgh (1 day per week onsite)
6-month rolling contract (strong likelihood of extension)
Large Banking Client

We're looking for an experienced Technical Scrum Master to join a high-performing technology team within a major banking client, supporting a digital mortgage platform.

This is a delivery-focused role where you'll play a critical part in driving agile best practices, enabling teams, and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across a modern tech stack.

The Role

As a Scrum Master, you will:

• Lead and facilitate 2-week sprint cycles, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
• Drive delivery across features and roadmap commitments
• Work closely with multiple Scrum teams to ensure alignment and dependencies are managed
• Act as a true Agile practitioner, embedding best practices and continuous improvement
• Balance servant leadership with delivery ownership (approx. 50/50 split)
• Support teams working on the online mortgage channel, ensuring smooth product delivery

Technology Environment

• Jira
• React (UI)
• APIs / Microservices
• Kafka
• MongoDB

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a technical environment
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks and delivery practices
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, delivery-driven environment
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams
• Exposure to banking or financial services (preferred, not essential)
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills

Working Pattern

• Hybrid model - 1 day per week onsite
  • London: flexible (often Friday availability)
  • Edinburgh: typically, Wednesdays
• Collaboration across distributed teams

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.