Scrum Master

**Scrum Master - 12-Month Fixed Term Contract**:

- ** Development opportunities in an exciting team.**:

- ** Based at our Head office in Stratford-upon-Avon with excellent facilities and surroundings.**:

- ** Hybrid 80% homeworking available and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon.**

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Scrum Master to join the Shared Data Platform Team within the IT Division on a 12-month fixed term contract. Our Shared Data Platform team look after our Azure Data Factory. As a Scrum Master, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the needs of the teams via servant leadership, including all the Agile ceremonies for the team. You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of products which keep many of our internal corporate customers up and running across the business.

You will be accountable for the effective delivery and oversight of key products and services delivered in the Shared Data Platform team, providing delivery leadership to your workstream, acting as the key point of engagement with several teams and business areas.

The Scrum Master is part of the delivery team and is responsible for the quality and optimisation of software development and technical delivery. You’ll be ensuring that the planned releases are appropriately tested, delivered to the release timeline whilst meeting quality expectations and protecting the integrity of the live environments.

You’ll lead Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Reviews, Daily Scrums, Refinements, Retrospectives) and optimise the backlog and the squad’s throughput. You’ll play a key role in resolving blockers and managing risks, issues, and interdependencies, fostering a collaborative, conflict-free environment. You’ll manage internal and external relationships for delivery teams and align releases with product and delivery managers, stakeholders, and project timelines.

**About you**:
As a Scrum Master, you’ll have a passion for energising and inspiring people to work collaboratively to deliver solutions, demonstrating excellent teamwork. You’re pro-active and have a mindset to promote continuous improvement from both you and your team.

You’re a strong facilitator and can work in ambiguous situations, demonstrating the ability to work with agility. You thrive off providing excellent customer service, and you enjoy using your stakeholder management and interpersonal skills to both lead and work as part of a team.

To join the team, you must also have:

- Clear and concise verbal communication skills.
- Understanding of Agile development principles.
- Knowledge of software development processes.

You'll have knowledge of Scaled Agile ways of working, and experience in an insurance, investments or pensions environment would also be advantageous.
- At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees._-
**Benefits and Rewards**:
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

- £45,000 - £55,000 annual salary
- Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

**Working at NFU Mutual**:
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are s