Scrum Master

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Role overview:

Enable one or more ESCS delivery teams to work effectively using Scrum and wider agile practices. The Scrum Master facilitates planning and delivery, removes impediments, supports transparent reporting and coaches the team towards sustainable continuous improvement.

The role you will play:

• Create an effective delivery cadence and protect team focus.
• Connect team-level delivery with programme priorities, dependencies and release plans.
• Use evidence and facilitation to help the team improve flow, predictability and quality.

Primary responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
• Work with business and technical leads to maintain a ready, prioritised and understood backlog.
• Track impediments, dependencies, risks and actions through to resolution.
• Support programme increment, release and cross-team planning where applicable.
• Use delivery metrics responsibly to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Coach team members and stakeholders in agile values, roles and effective collaboration.
• Support distributed teams and maintain inclusive, outcome-focused ceremonies.
• Promote continuous improvement without compromising delivery transparency.

Required skills and capabilities:

• Scrum and agile delivery
• Facilitation and team coaching
• Backlog refinement and sprint planning
• Dependency and impediment management
• Agile metrics, flow and reporting
• Release and programme increment planning
• Retrospective design and continuous improvement
• Jira, Confluence or equivalent tooling
• Conflict resolution and stakeholder communication
• Value-focused delivery practices

Required experience:

• Scrum Master or agile delivery experience with multidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience supporting product owners, analysts, engineers and testers through the delivery lifecycle.
• Experience working across virtual, distributed or multi-location teams.
• Evidence of improving team delivery practices and resolving impediments.

Desired experience:

• Multi-team or scaled agile delivery, including SAFe.
• Enterprise transformation or complex systems integration.
• Agile coaching or Scrum certification.

Clearance requirements:

• SC required to start
• SC required for the role

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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.