Scrum Master

1 week ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Aegon Full time
Job Description Summary

Job Description:

Scrum Master


We have an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master to join our IT Delivery department as we undergo our Agile Transformation Journey, and we change the way we work in Aegon.

If you are looking for a role where you will have the chance to shape the future direction and put new processes into place, using your positive attitude and passionate for change, then this could be the ideal opportunity for you

People are living longer than ever before, and we're excited by the opportunities this brings.

As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter.

We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it - however grand or humble their ambitions.

Working at Aegon, you'll play an important part in helping achieve this.

We have three behaviors that are central to how we operate as a team and a business:
we step up, we tune in and we're a force for good.

The Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Scrum Master to join our IT Delivery department.

Reporting to the Scrum Master Capability Development Manager, the Scrum Master will play a vital role in delivering initiatives designed to transform and elevate change in Aegon.

The Role


In this role, you will be empowered, trusted, and supported in bringing in your ideas and expertise around Agile Transformation.

You will coach and guide your team to perform at their highest level and at a sustainable pace.

You will remove any impediments to progress, facilitate meetings, protect the team from outside influences or distractions and work with the Feature Team to make sure the Product Backlog is in good shape and ready for the next Sprint.

Key responsibilities

  • Ensure the Feature Team understand Aegon's approach to Agile, the Scrum framework and values, and how this is used to successfully deliver our products to our customers, reacting to their needs quickly.
  • Responsible for coaching the Feature Teams to become selfmanaging and selforganising.
  • Enable and assist the Feature Team to remove impediments and manage dependencies through enhanced facilitation skills.
  • Schedule and facilitate Scrum events, such as; Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews; Sprint Retrospectives and Daily Scrums
  • Drive a culture of transparency, inspection and adaptation throughout the Sprints and planning.
  • Assist the Feature Team with the preparation of the Sprint reports and ensure they are forwarded to stakeholders.
  • Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged.
  • Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Be comfortable working with a varying range of Agile experience
  • Supporting the business with its Agile Transformation by sharing ideas, acting as a champion, driving improvement, and defining best practice

Skills:

  • Effective influencing and motivation skills
  • Being resilient and staying calm under pressure; conflict resolution techniques
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Mindset of continuous improvement
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
Knowledge

  • Experience of working in Agile methodologies as a Scrum Master
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification, or similar, would be expected.
  • Knowledge and understanding of Agile Frameworks including Scrum
  • Working knowledge and hands on experience of Jira & Confluence
  • Coaching and mentoring experience
  • Experience in working with multiple teams
  • Experience with Agile Transformation preferred
How we look after you

Outside of a competitive salary, working with us comes with a range of benefits that you can access from day one, including:

  • Non-contributary pension between 8-12% dependant on age
  • Life assurance cover
  • Private medical cover and health assessments
  • Access to
  • Peppy
- a digital health app that supports employees with men and women's health, menopause, fertility and baby support

  • Critical Illness cover
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental pay packages to support you in the moments that matter
  • Holiday trading
  • Private GP appointments with Doctor at Hand
  • Cycle2Work scheme
  • 2 paid days per year for charitable volunteering
  • Employee wellbeing is key to our culture. We offer a range of online classes to support this, including yoga and meditation


We champion a collaborative, supportive working environment where you'll have the opportunity to develop yourself and your career in a way that works for you.

Our reward programmes encourage peer-to-peer recognition, and we offer a discretionary annual bonus dependent on company and individual performance.

Flexible working

We're transitioning to our new normal and we're welcoming everyone back to working in new, collaborative, and exciting ways. We've adopted a hybrid environment o

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