Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Ultra Electronics Communication & Integrated Systems

About Ultra Group

Ultra is transforming. Our mission is to innovate today for a safer tomorrow. We are investigators, problem solvers, brilliant thinkers, relentless explorers. We are Ultra.

We provide innovative, mission-specific, bespoke technological solutions to our customers' most complex problems. We provide systems for the maritime, C4ISTAR-EW (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, acquisition and reconnaissance - electronic warfare), military and commercial aerospace, nuclear, and industrial sensors markets.

With 4,000 employees, we span the globe and are listed on the London Stock Exchange

About Ultra CIS

Our engineers work on the most difficult cybersecurity challenges in order to protect our national security and critical infrastructure; we strive to protect what matters. It's why we come to work. It's what we are good at. We pride ourselves on providing state of the art development tools, an excellent working environment and career development opportunities.

Location:

Greenford

Job purpose:

ULTRA are recruiting a Scrum Master to be responsible for leading the change for engineering teams to adopt Scrum and provide ongoing servant-leadership and coaching to all members of the organization.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading Scrum adoption across the business and coaching teams to ensure a consistent approach to running projects across the business
• Being an evangelist on the benefits of Scrum and working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of the adoption of Scrum.

• Responsible for Scrum artefacts in order to track and a facilitate Scrum events.
• Discovering techniques for effective engineering backlog management
• Implementing change that creates value to the product and processes.
• Work closely with the change community to develop strategy and drive continuous improvement activities.
• Work with Product Owners and Project Management to continually improve the quality if the backlog and work done.
• Any other duties as and when required
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual.

Personal attributes:
Essential:

• Relevant qualification in Scrum, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• A strong understanding of Software / Firmware or other Engineering development processes.
• A strong understanding of Continuous Integration.
• Practical understanding of Atlassian's toolset & Jenkins.

Desirable:

• Experience working in the defense industry.
• Experience in Embedded Systems

Role requirements

For this role, you are required to:

• Be able to attain and maintain Security Clearance to Security Check (SC) level .
• You may be required for some travel to other Ultra sites around the UK (pending COVID-19 restrictions).

Benefits

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities for motivated and dedicated employees.

The Greenford office has an onsite restaurant and local transport links. In addition you will receive:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 4x your annual salary in life assurance
• Flexible benefits package (retail vouchers, gym discounts, employee share scheme, ability to buy or sell annual leave and more!)
• Pension Scheme

Please be aware that many roles working for Ultra will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we cannot acknowledge or respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 14 days, please assume you have, unfortunately, not been successful.