Scrum Master/Senior Scrum Master Ref. 3393

Salar:
£55,667 (Scrum Master) and £67,862 (Senior Scrum Master), dependent on skills and experience, with an opportunity to qualify for additional allowances and a skills-related payment under the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framework (DDaT).

Flexible Working:
We support full-time, part-time, compressed and other flexible working patterns. However, this is an office-based role, and therefore, opportunities for remote working and/or working from home cannot be accommodated due to the nature of our work.

About Us:
MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people, and its way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing, and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners, including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. A role in MI5 means you'll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security.

Senior Scrum Master:
As a Senior Scrum Master within our organisation, you'll work with multiple teams to deliver our most complex products. Your responsibilities will include ensuring cohesive delivery across teams, coaching them in Agile best practices, and removing impediments that affect multiple teams. Additionally, you'll manage multiple Scrum Masters, providing them with the support they need to excel in their roles.

Scrum Master:
In the role of Scrum Master, you'll collaborate with teams to deliver products for our customers. This involves ensuring the team performs to the best of their ability, works effectively together, and overcomes any issues or dependencies. Additionally, you may be expected to line manage one Junior Scrum Master, sharing these responsibilities as needed.

Our people thrive under pressure, attending to urgent business needs. Therefore, it's critical that our Scrum Masters think quickly and are effective when responding to issues that occur within our live operational IT systems. With strong organisation and problem-solving skills, you'll be full of ideas about how we can implement agile methodologies into the business.

Collaborative and communicative, you'll support the team to engage, coordinate, and cooperate in resolving issues effectively in an ever-evolving environment, coaching them as you help to implement the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You'll promote Agile technical practices, removing barriers to your team's progress, and support them in finding the best ways to refine their backlog and create stories.

You'll share a collective responsibility in keeping the country safe, striving to develop your team, enabling departments to work together, and ensuring outputs meet customer standards.

About You:
As a Scrum Master or Senior Scrum Master you'll focus on the needs of the team. Emphasising collaboration and mutual support, you'll listen to and assist your team, helping them to discover their potential. Whether you already have a Scrum Master certification, experience as a Scrum Master, or are in a role within an Agile framework, this might be the role for you. You'll possess strong organisation skills and will be comfortable planning your own and others' time. Additionally, you'll be empathetic, a persuasive communicator, and a strategic long-term thinker.

With experience negotiating complexity and uncertainty in an Agile environment, you'll have a good understanding of Scrum and Agile working practices such as SAFe, drawing on your proactive attitude to adapt to new circumstances. Most importantly, you'll be motivated, collaborative, and have a passion for learning with an eagerness to develop yourself and others.

A capable problem-solver, you'll be comfortable with numbers, data, and technology, using your expertise to supportively challenge the status quo while guiding your team.

Training and Development:
When you start, you'll have a full induction to our organisation, which will give you knowledge of how we operate. You'll then have a team induction, working as part of the project team to give you a rounded understanding of your new role. If you're not already a Certified Scrum Master, we'll help you train toward this qualification.

We're committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We'll use the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framework as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you, there'll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring, alongside opportunities to gain qualifications and pursue specialist Agile Delivery pathways.

As you develop, grow, and maintain your technical skills, you'll progress through the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framework pay points. You'll need to regularly demonstrate and accredit your skills based on the framework. If you don't maintain the required skills, you'll be given the opportunity and support to rectify this; otherwise, you could revert to a lower level of capability and pay.

You'll be enrolled in our training pathway, allowing you to develop your skills in Agile Delivery Management. You'll also have the opportunity to attend Agile-related training such as ICAgile and ICP-ACC Agile Coaching, plus other relevant courses. In addition to one-to-one on-the-job training and support, you'll have access to buddy schemes where you can benefit from the expertise of experienced colleagues.

Continued professional development is also encouraged and supported by our CPD framework. You'll benefit from reviews where your skills will be assessed, and you'll be supported to move up the pay scale as you thrive in your role.

Rewards and Benefits:
You'll receive a starting salary of between £55,667 as a Scrum Master and £67,862 as a Senior Scrum Master, dependent on skills and experience, plus other benefits including:
• 25 days annual leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays.
• Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme.
• Personal learning budget.
• Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel).
• Excellent pension scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations).
• Paid parental and adoption leave.

Equal Opportunities:
At MI5, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce, such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.

We're Disability Confident:
MI5 is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP's Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people.

What to Expect:
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
• Paper sift - You are advised to make full use of the word allowance for each question.
• Competency and Technical interview.
• Interview.
• Drugs test.
• Vetting interview.

Before You Apply:
To work at MI5, you need to be a British citizen or hold dual British nationality. This role requires the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It's something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community undertakes.

Right to Withdraw Statement:
Please be aware that we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.