Cyber Security Scrum Master

BT Group; Southampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BT Group is seeking a Cyber Security Scrum Master to lead a team of skilled practitioners in Southampton. The role involves delivering security enhancements, managing complex projects, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Candidates should have a strong background in IT project leadership with a focus on cyber security, along with agility in methodologies and managing substantial budgets.

Benefits

Equal family leave for 18 weeks at full pay

Enhanced women’s health support

25 days annual leave, increasing with service

24/7 private virtual GP appointments

2 weeks carer’s leave

World-class training and development opportunities

Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience leading complex IT deliveries.
• Formal training in Agile methodologies.
• Experience managing a significant budget in excess of £1m.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad delivering new security controls.
• Align delivery work with strategy and implement changes.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects.

Skills

Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Risk Management

Cyber Security

Financial Management

Reporting

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

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BT Group

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Southampton, United Kingdom

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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What you’ll be doing

• Leading a squad of skilled cyber security practitioners delivering new security controls and enhancements.
• Ensuring that delivery work is aligned with strategy and feeding outcomes and learning back into strategy.
• Developing Agile business cases in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Prioritising squad work to deliver the greatest impact for the investment.
• Mobilising and overseeing end-to-end delivery of epics (from concept to closure).
• Ensuring that all required policies and procedures are complied with.
• Setting up and maintaining accurate epic financial forecasting and tracking glide-path to budget.
• Risk/issue and management.
• Managing change.
• Working across BT Group ensuring that deliveries of changes/risk controls are embedded in the operational organisation
• Working across BT Group ensuring that the operational effectiveness of delivered changes/risk controls are measured.
• Working across BT Group ensuring that benefits are realised and measured.
• Providing reporting to Security Portfolio Board (stakeholders up to BT CISO and BT CIO) and Security governance forums e.g. Security Council, Security Forum.

Skills Required for the Role

• Leading a squad of skilled cyber security practitioners delivering new security controls and enhancements.
• Ensuring that delivery work is aligned with strategy and feeding outcomes and learning back into strategy.
• Developing Agile business cases in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Prioritising squad work to deliver the greatest impact for the investment.
• Mobilising and overseeing end-to-end delivery of epics (from concept to closure).
• Ensuring that all required policies and procedures are complied with.
• Setting up and maintaining accurate epic financial forecasting and tracking glide-path to budget.
• Risk/issue and management.
• Managing change.
• Working across BT Group ensuring that deliveries of changes/risk controls are embedded in the operational organisation
• Working across BT Group ensuring that the operational effectiveness of delivered changes/risk controls are measured.
• Working across BT Group ensuring that benefits are realised and measured.
• Providing reporting to Security Portfolio Board (stakeholders up to BT CISO and BT CIO) and Security governance forums e.g. Security Council, Security Forum.

Experience Required for the Role

MANDATORY

• 5+ years demonstrable experience of successfully leading complex, high value deliveries in an IT domain
• Self-starter and able to manage time effectively
• Able to work accurately with numbers and data
• In receipt of formal training in Agile methodologies and can apply the knowledge to specific circumstances (accreditation doesn’t need to be current)
• Demonstrable experience of successfully using Agile methodologies for delivery

PREFERRED

• Degree or equivalent qualification/experience
• Experience leading complex cyber security deliveries
• Knowledge and experience of cyber assessment frame works
• Knowledge and experience of cyber risk management
• Experience of managing a significant budget in excess of £1m
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.