Scrum Master

Your role at a glance
Are you a Scrum Master looking for your next move?

We’re currently looking to hire a Scrum Master to join Legal and General Group Technology.

What you'll be doing
- **Scrum Master services to the Product Owner**:

- Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are well understood by the team. Use effective techniques for product backlog management to help the team understand the need for clear and concise product backlog item
- **Scrum Master services to the Development Team**:

- Coaching the team in self-organisation and cross-functionality, helping the team to create high value, high-quality products, removing impediments to the team’s progress and facilitating Scrum events as requested
- **Scrum Master services to the Group/Organisation**:

- Leading and coaching the group in its adoption of Scrum by helping people understand Scrum and product development
- Being responsible for managing the Scrum Framework, facilitate Scrum events making sure that they take place and that attendees understand the purpose and outcomes of the events
- Providing transparency and visibility by tracking and reporting team-level delivery metrics. Radiate Information
- Driving the adoption of engineering practices such as test-driven development, pair-programming and continuous delivery to improve quality and reliability of the team’s outputs and outcomes
- Striving for continuous improvement across engineering processes and practices

What we're looking for
- Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master in a development environment.
- You’ll have the ability to provide Scrum Mastery services for product ownership, team and group.
- Having the ability to influence decisions, change and priorities through data-driven evidence.
- It will be nice to have Knowledge of general software engineering good practices
- Knowledge of how to lead and improve highly effective teams
- The ability to educate and challenge interactions which prevent the team from focusing on their work

**Benefits**:
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

About the business area
Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in **L&G Group functions** - which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Our commitments to you
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexu