Join BAE Systems Digital Intelligence as an Agile Coach based in Gloucester with hybrid working arrangements. In this role, you will help individuals, teams, and the wider organisation adopt and embrace an Agile mindset, ensuring adherence to Agile theory and practices to maximize value delivery in the UK National Security sector.
Requirements
Experience offering hands-on advice and coaching to at least one team not directly under your responsibility.
Experience leading and coaching a department or small business unit in Agile adoption.
Confidence interacting with senior stakeholders and mentoring Scrum/Agile techniques.
Understanding or experience in Agile scaling frameworks (Scrum@Scale, LeSS, SAFe, Nexus) is a plus.
Minimum requirement to achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
Skills & Responsibilities
Agile Coaching & Mentoring: Guide teams and organisations to embrace Agile ways of working and foster psychologically safe environments for continuous improvement.
Facilitation & Impediment Removal: Facilitate team events, promote self-organisation, and remove barriers between stakeholders and teams.
Framework Application: Utilize deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile frameworks to maximize team effectiveness and delivery of business value.
Community Building: Act as a change agent, leader, and active participant in wider Agile and Scrum communities.
Potential transition routes: People from Scrum Master, Project Manager, or Delivery Manager roles may bring facilitation and team leadership skills, alongside meeting strong stakeholder management requirements.
Job description
Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job Title: Agile Coach Requisition ID: 123271
Location: Gloucester Grade: GG10
Referral Bonus: £5,000
Job Title: Agile Coach
About the role We are looking for a passionate Agile Coach to join our team following continuous growth and success in the UK National Security sector. Behind great solutions are great teams, and our Agile Coaches are there to help support, guide, and coach them to success. In BAE Systems we don’t believe in constraining ambition, and therefore view Scrum Masters as Agile Coaches.
For this role you will be based in our Gloucester office with hybrid working arrangements available.
What you could be doing for us:
Our Agile Coaches help individuals, teams and the wider organisation to understand what it means to implement, adopt and embrace an Agile mindset. Agile Coaches come armed with a deep knowledge and understanding of various Agile tools, techniques and frameworks to guide a team or organisation on its journey to unlock and achieve its full potential using Agile methodologies.
Our Agile Coaches guide, coach and mentor teams and organisations to embrace Agile ways of working to help them thrive in a complex world. Agile Coaches extol the virtues of an Agile mindset by being Agile, not just doing Agile.
Our Agile Coaches ensure that teams and organisations understands and adheres to Agile theory and practices. The Agile Coach facilitates stakeholder collaboration, removing barriers between stakeholders and the team and/or organisation. The Agile Coach helps everyone to understand and enact an empirical approach for complex work to maximize the value created by the team.
At a team-level, our Agile Coaches are accountable for the team’s effectiveness. The Agile Coach helps the team to perform at its highest level as a whole team and supporting the process to enable it to successfully deliver value. They do this by promoting self-organisation within the team, causing the removal of any impediments to the team’s progress and facilitating the team’s events and ceremonies.
Our Agile Coaches support healthy team dynamics by creating psychologically safe environments where transparency and trust are catalysts for change and continuous improvement.
Our Agile Coaches have a people-centric outlook using their emotional Intelligence and soft-skills to uncover and explore issues impacting the delivery of business value
Our Agile Coaches are comfortable in navigating complexity and happy to operate in a range of Agile capacities, including Scrum Master, Kanban facilitator/coach, as well as roles specific to Scaled Agile frameworks.
Above all, our Agile Coaches are more than a 2-day certificate Scrum Master – they are change agents, community builders, and leaders in their own right. They are passionate to grow their craft, attend conferences and local meet-ups, and participate in the businesses wider Agile and Scrum communities.
About you
Experience in offering hands-on advice and coaching to at least one team which you are not directly responsible for;
You have lead and coached a department or small business-unit in Agile adoption and implementation;
Facilitated the wider Agile/Scrum community within your organisation;
You have confidence in interacting with senior stakeholders and mentoring different Scrum/Agile techniques
You might have understanding or experience in Agile scaling frameworks such as Scrum@Scale, LeSS, SAFe and Nexus;
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 under represented 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks
This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
