Scrum Master

3 weeks ago

London UK, UK, United Kingdom Legal & General Full time

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

Join our innovative and high-performing cloud product team as a Scrum Master, where we leverage the power of AWS to deliver exceptional solutions. We are dedicated to creating a collaborative environment that drives success and maximizes value for our customers.

As a Scrum Master, you will utilize your expertise to manage the application of the Scrum Framework, promoting and supporting Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide. You will play a pivotal role in helping the team understand and implement the theory, principles, practices, rules, and values of Scrum within a cloud-based environment.

What you'll be doing:

  • Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are well understood by the team. Using effective techniques for product backlog management to help the team understand the need for clear and concise product backlog items. Understanding product planning and prioritisation in an empirical environment to maximise value
  • 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
  • Leading and coaching the group in its adoption of Scrum by helping people understand Scrum and product development. Working with other Scrum Masters to identify improvements and cause change that helps teams improve in productivity of value delivery and effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the Group
  • Managing the Scrum Framework and facilitating Scrum events making sure that they take place and that attendees understand the purpose and outcomes of the events
  • Identifying, managing, and removing team-level impediments, preventing distractions that interfere with sprint goals. Developing clear and concise escalation points
  • Providing transparency and visibility by tracking and reporting team-level delivery metrics
  • 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

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

  • Naturally, you’ll be well versed in working as a Scrum Master in a product development environment
  • Knowledge of applying Scrum, Kanban and XP engineering practices
  • Strong influencing skills through data-driven evidence
  • Knowledge of how product management works
  • The ability to lead and improve highly effective teams

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
  • There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.

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