Scrum Master

Babcock; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Scrum Master to enhance agile software delivery at their Bristol site. In this pivotal role, you will lead teams in adopting best practices, ensuring efficient software development and deployment. You will collaborate closely with product owners to remove obstacles and drive continuous improvement. This position offers flexible hybrid working arrangements, allowing you to balance time between the office and home. Join a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and offers generous benefits, including a matched pension scheme and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in driving Agile Software Engineering best practices.
• Ability to organize and lead Scrum events effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery teams through coaching and agile processes.
• Ensure software releases meet customer expectations efficiently.

Skills

Agile Software Engineering

Scrum Management

Continuous Improvement

DevOps Practices

Automated Testing

Team Leadership

Education

Experience in Agile Practices

Tools

Modern IDE

Job description

Job Title: Scrum Master
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64043

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Scrum Master at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As Scrum Master you will play a significant role in supporting the team to develop software, that provides sovereign communications capability for critical strategic communications, as well as help more broadly across Mission Systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll work across our portfolio of software projects. You’ll also support delivery teams both through direct support and coaching to embed effective agile processes.

• Ensuring the team is working efficiently against best agile software practices, promoting a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
• Ensure software releases, updates, and deployment activities deliver software capabilities that meet our customer’s expectations, happen in an efficient way, are monitored and managed, to meet an agreed schedule and budget.
• Ensure best practice and agile techniques are spread across multiple teams within the business to support those teams recently moving towards agile processes.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides flexible hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Scrum Master

• Working as part of a team or teams to enable and drive Agile Software Engineering best practices.
• Organising and leading Scrum events, delivering against Scrum goals, and managing a continuous improvement process.
• Working with a Product Owner or Delivery Lead to ensure targeted software delivery and identifying and removing obstacles from agile team delivery and protecting the team from external threats.
• Producing reports from gathered metrics to highlight progress against backlog, estimated schedules and any issues or blockers and supporting adoption and delivery of the implementation strategy (branching, release).
• Experience using a modern IDE, DevOps and Automated Testing.

Qualifications for the Scrum Master

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. The successful candidate may be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security check once in post.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 22/05/2025

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