About Us
 
We are MI5, we protect the UK from threats to national security such as terrorism and espionage. We gather intelligence and work closely with the police and law enforcement to detect threats and work out ways to stop them.
 
The Role        
 
As a Scrum Master, you’ll work on some truly unique projects across the whole organisation. Collaborating with customers in our investigative and analysis teams, you’ll gain an insight into the important work that protects our country.

About You

To join, you’ll have an understanding of Scrum and other Agile Delivery Methodologies. Plus, you’ll have experience of working with delivery tools to support these methodologies and drive effectiveness. It would be ideal if you would be a Certified Scrum Master, but we can provide relevant training if not.

An empathetic but confident communicator, you’ll work well with various teams and customers. Building great relationships, you’ll understand different opinions and be able to influence key-decision makers. And with sound planning and organisational skills, you’ll think beyond day-to-day activities and be able to think ahead.

Keen to help others, you’ll also support everyone’s development. Your passion means you’ll facilitate wider programme events and promote a collaborative atmosphere where everyone feels valued. Thanks to this, there will be a culture of continuous improvement that allows for constructive feedback.   

As a senior leader and team player, you’ll enjoy being part of our community and improving our practices. Passionate and future-focused, you’ll be keen to get the best of youself - and your team.

 Training and Development
 
You’ll take advantage of some amazing learning and development opportunities. Whether you want to broaden your technical expertise, build other professional skills or become a future leader, we have lots of dedicated communities to help you grow in different directions. Through our training partners and mentoring scheme, you’ll have pathways in place to become a Release Train Engineer and/or Senior Scrum Master. We’ll also encourage you to gain relevant certifications and qualifications.
 

Rewards and Benefits

You’ll receive a starting salary of Greater Manchester £47,545  - London £49,266  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.
-    Opportunities to work flexibly, subject to business needs
-    Interest-free season ticket loan
-    Excellent pension scheme
-    Cycle to work scheme
-    Paid parental and adoption leave

Culture and Working Environment 
 
As part of our team, you’ll discover an inclusive workplace that’s welcoming, supportive and encouraging. You’ll be part of an organisation where people want to support one another and make a difference. Aside from fostering an open culture, we’ve got a range of growing affinity groups. For example:  
 
•    Ethnic Minority and gender equality networks
•    Groups supporting wellbeing, mental health, neurodiversity and disability
•    Faith/No Faith communities for staff to come together
•    LGBTQ+ support networks

You’ll also find a variety of sports, activity, interest and social groups to help you settle in and connect with people with similar interests.
 
Before You Apply

 To work at MI5, you need to be a British citizen. We do have a strict drugs policy, so once you start your application, you can’t take any recreational drugs and you’ll need to declare your previous drug usage at the relevant stage.

Honesty and integrity are really important if you want to work at MI5. Take some time to read about the vetting process and make sure you meet the criteria in the vetting pages of the ‘How to Apply’ section. The process can take some time, but this is just because it’s thorough. Giving misleading information and omitting or concealing information during the recruitment and vetting process is viewed very seriously.

The role is based in London or Greater Manchester, so you’ll need to live within a commutable distance. Please consider any financial implications and practicalities before submitting an application.

Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application.


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, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, 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.


We’re Disability Confident
 

MI5 are 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.  Being Disability Confident, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview where practicable; this is known as ‘Offer of an Interview’. To secure an interview for this vacancy, the minimum criteria (in order of application process) are:
•    Knowledge of a number of Agile framework (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), and understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) by being able to explain the key roles and ceremonies in the following agile frameworks – Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
•    Built high performing lean-agile teams and allowed those teams to excel by removing impediments and improving team velocity.
•    Lead one or more cross functional teams ensuring alignment where required and interdependencies are fully understood and managed

 
Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. One of your parents must be a British Citizen or must have one of the nationalities or citizenships from one of the following: British Overseas Territory, British Subject, British National (Overseas), British Overseas Citizen, British Protected Person, citizenship of a country in the Commonwealth, citizenship of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), or citizenship of the United States of America (USA). If deceased, they should have had such citizenship or nationality before death. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. If successful, you will not normally be required to give up your non-British citizenship but, as a condition of your employment or secondment, MI5 may impose restrictions on your postings, work travel and/or general use of that nationality. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. Each case will be carefully considered on its own facts. You can apply at the age of 17 years and 6 months, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Discretion is vital. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member. Please note, you should only launch your application from within the UK. If you are based overseas, you should wait until you visit the UK to launch an application. Applying from outside of the UK will impact on our ability to progress your application. Further information on our eligibility criteria can be found on the Applying section.


What to Expect

Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
Initial chat with recruiter to deem suitability;
Application sift; if pass
Technical interview; if pass
Invited to Assessment Centre; if pass
Vetting

Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process in order to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.


Our Vetting

To work in this role you will need the highest security clearance, known as Developed Vetting (DV). It’s something everyone in the UK Intelligence Community has to go through and it can take some time. As part of the DV process you will be asked to fill in a detailed questionnaire and attend an interview with a vetting officer. In your interview the vetting officer will have a thorough, compassionate and honest discussion with you about you as a person and your life experiences, to ensure holding a DV clearance is right for you. You don’t need to do any preparation for your vetting interview, just be honest and be yourself. All applicants for DV are treated impartially and consistently, irrespective of gender, race, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics.