Scrum Master

Job Description

Job Title: Scrum Master

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

Salary: £49,400

What you’ll be doing

• Championing agile ways of working across the team, ensuring ceremonies are engaging, productive, and continuously improved
• Facilitating sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand‑ups, helping the team stay aligned, focused, and motivated
• Removing impediments and blockers quickly, enabling the team to deliver high‑quality work without disruption
• Coaching and mentoring team members on agile principles, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning
• Working closely with Product Owners to refine backlogs, prioritise work, and ensure clarity of requirements
• Driving team performance through data, using metrics such as velocity, burn‑down charts, and flow analysis to identify improvements
• Promoting a positive, high‑performing team environment, encouraging innovation, transparency, and open communication

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or similar role within a cross‑functional delivery team
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) with hands‑on experience applying them in complex environments
• Ability to use appropriate toolsets, such as the Atlassian suite (jira), SharePoint, Microsoft Office applications and develop and act on appropriate metrics
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence and build strong relationships

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Next Generation Training team:

The Next Generation Training team develops and delivers cutting‑edge training products for new and existing customers and partners across the BAE Systems portfolio. We work in a collaborative, fast‑moving environment, using modern technologies to shape the future of training capability. In this role, you’ll contribute to innovative projects across the full product lifecycle, offering a rare opportunity to broaden your skills while helping create next‑generation solutions for real‑world users.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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.

Closing Date: 12th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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