Agile Coach

Job Description

Location(s): London

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.

Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an Agile Coach.

You will be working within a Software Engineering team, working with our National Security Customers to build and run systems that support their core mission capabilities. You will be:

1. Helping individuals, teams and the wider organisation to understand what it means to implement, adopt and embrace an Agile mindset.
2. Guiding, coaching and mentoring teams and organisations to embrace Agile ways of working to help them thrive in a complex world.
3. Ensuring that teams and organisations understand and adhere to Agile theory and practices.
4. Facilitating stakeholder collaboration, removing barriers between stakeholders and the team and/or organisation.
5. Accountable for the team’s effectiveness and helping the team to perform at its highest level.
6. Supporting the process to enable the team to successfully deliver value.
7. Promoting self-organisation within the team and removing impediments to the team’s progress.
8. Facilitating the team’s events and ceremonies.
9. Supporting healthy team dynamics by creating psychologically safe environments where transparency and trust are catalysts for change and continuous improvement.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

1. Enthusiastic about Agile – must have a passion for Agile ways of working;
2. Communicative and Personable – must be personable, approachable and comfortable communicating with team members and stakeholders;
3. Situationally Aware – must be able to utilise Emotional Intelligence to best effect;
4. A Coach and a Mentor – must be an active listener, use powerful questions and know when to switch between stances;
5. Facilitative – must be able to both lead and support the team;
6. Competent in conflict management and resolution – must be able to facilitate discussion and consider alternatives or different approaches;
7. Assertive – must be able to ensure Agile practices, values and ways of working are adhered to;
8. Focused on the delivery of value – through the lens of team effectiveness, working with other stakeholders to maximise the delivery of value from the team’s endeavours;
9. Seeking Continual improvement – must strive to be a high-performing team, continually looking for opportunities to learn new tools and techniques;
10. Promoting team empowerment – encourages and demands self-organisation from the team;
11. Promoting team transparency – must promote a culture of disclosure and transparency both within the team and to the wider business about development and progress.

Please note that it is essential that you currently hold high level UK security clearance.

How we will support you

Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working, and many of our roles include hybrid working enabling a mix of working from home and in the office.

You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before.

Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more.

You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE.

You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme.

You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.

About our team

Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success.

We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting edge, high quality solutions.

Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

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.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions.

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.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward.