Scrum Master

Job title: Air - Scrum Master

Location: Warton - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role.

Salary:£52,084+ (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

Implement Agile and Scrum best practices throughout the team by offering coaching and mentoring of Agile and Scrum values and best practices

Ensure project goals, issue scope and product domains are understood by everyone on the team

Help coordinate sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives

Remove blockers to team progress and proactively help the team navigate how to make improvements to avoid similar blockers in the future

Use reliable sources to estimate how many deliverables are needed for each iteration

Help employees write effective user stories and derive the definition of done and coordinate processes and the product’s release together with other departments

Help the product owner prepare the product backlog for upcoming sprints

Monitor and fix impediments to ensure the product and its features are delivered within scope, time, budget, and expected quality guidelines as well as documenting all progress in Atlassian suite of tools

Your skills and experiences:

Hold an Agile certification or extensive experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum practices and an Agile release train

Understanding of IT systems and the principles and approaches that influence their performance

Knowledge and experience relevant to working with development teams that design specify, model data, test and validate in an agile manner

Enterprise reports and analyse data

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual leave incentive.

The Air Data and Analytics team:

BAE Systems are excited to offer an opportunity to the right individual as a Scrum Master within the Air sector business unit.You will be a key member of a high performing team ensuring our Air Data & Analytics team outputs are delivered with a keen focus on customer satisfaction

The successful candidate will be highly organised and a strong communicator in enabling the Air business to be efficient and effective through providing data and information to those that require it. There will be an opportunity to progress down the Project Manager route from this role

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.