Scrum Master

Job Description:

Scrum Master

Salary: From £65,900 DOE

Location :  Hybrid working – 1 day per week at a Brighton BN1 4FY or Staines TW18 3DZ office.  

Contract type: Permanent

Shift pattern: Full-time – 37.5 hours per week

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re not just a health insurer – we’re a health partner. With no shareholders, our focus is always on our customers. We’re here to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives – and make a better world.

As a Scrum Master you will build capability within the Bupa Global permanent teams; to evolve our ways of working in 2026, and to support being able to deliver at scale, whilst focusing on improving agile processes, improved productivity and quality.

As a Scrum Master you will manage and facilitate your team to improve agile ways of working; helping to remove waste and improve productivity, quality and engagement.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Being accountable for the continual development and improvement across multiple scrums for agile processes and ways of working, helping to remove waste and improve productivity and engagement.

• Facilitate all agile ceremonies assisting the scrums to meet their iteration goals (includes sprint pre-planning and planning, daily stand up’s, sprint retrospective and sprint demos).

• Act as an agile coach to the scrums, effectively support each scrum member to ‘be the best that they can be’.

• Work with the Product Managers to develop and maintain high quality user-stories, backlogs and drive the adoption of better tooling and processes.

• Work to remove impediments and protect the scrum from distractions.

• Work to appropriate the appropriate standards, development methodologies and strategic architecture frameworks

• Act as a bridge between the business, architecture, and development communities

• Contribute to the wider community of Scrum Masters.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Proven commercial experience as a Scrum Master.

• You have insurance industry domain knowledge.

• Proven experience working in an Agile environment and the using agile methods, such as Scrum and Kanban.

• Experience of working with Product teams preferred.

• Strong, proven leadership skills

• Technical knowledge or some familiarity with tooling and languages preferred (examples could include PLSQL, .net, Python, R, C#,  test automation frameworks, Azure Dev Ops, Snowflake etc)

• Certified Scrum Master accreditation preferred.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa Global in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”. We champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role.

We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: emma.stockwell-sykes@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Staines - Willow House, Victory House, Brighton