Scrum Master Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
48784 - 60980 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 31 May 2023
Salary Range
£48,784 - £60,980Agile Working Options
Job Description
Scrum Master
Economic Crime Prevention – Customer Lab
Location: Edinburgh based, hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office.
Salary & Benefits: £57,078 to £63,420 base salary based on experience and grade, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We offer flexible working hours, to give you a good work life balance, agile working practices and are a very family friendly company.
Lloyds Banking Group:
Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We’re revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!
LBG Labs:
In the Economic Crime Prevention Platform we’re evolving our technology and data landscape to have the best systems and controls in place to detect and disrupt criminal activity - Delivering at pace and being able to adjust our focus and looking at how we can relentlessly improve is key to this and we strive to do this in a safe and inclusive environment where colleagues can be their absolute best.
About the role:
We believe that people don't always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you unique!
As a Scrum Master you’ll operate at Team level as a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them reach their best and deliver their best for customers and the group. You’ll encourage your team’s understanding of Agile frameworks, Transformation Principles and Practices, and support them to establish their ways of working, to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering change and value safely.
Here’s where you’ll make a difference:
- Serve & Support the Team and Lab to utilise Agile frameworks (Scaling, Scrum, Kanban etc) and Agile events (Scrum of Scrums, PI planning, retrospectives etc) to understand the value and purpose of them.
- Help the Product Owner to manage an effective Product Backlog
- Promotes best practices in refinement, prioritisation, customer engagement and introducing tools and techniques.
- Coach and empower your team to self-manage, utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery.
- Enable the team to understand and visualise the optimal sequence of work, measure and understand their performance through metrics (throughput, cycle time, happiness etc) and use this as the basis for their improvement activity.
- Learning/curious mentality, energy, and enthusiasm for creative disruption and to continuously strive to improve the organisation, team, and your knowledge and skills
What we need from you:
- Experienced in Agile Frameworks (such as Scrum, Kanban & SaFE).
- Experience working in agile environments (preferably in a software engineering environment and /or large-scale complex programmes).
- Knowledge and some experience of other techniques that support Agile working, such as Dev Ops, Lean, System Thinking, Queueing Theory, Complex Adaptive systems, Theory of Constraints / Critical Chain.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience working with the Transformation Principles and Practices (TP&Ps).
What will be desirable:
- Scrum Master Certification – PSM1 or equivalent is desirable however support will be available to achieve this.
What’s in it for you?
Whatever your aspirations, you can expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.
We promote an inclusive and diverse environment - it is one of the many things our colleagues love about working with us! As part of this we encourage colleagues to be flexible in their approach to working – including where and when you work – so you can balance your personal commitments with the needs of the business.
We'd also like to reassure applicants that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
So, are you looking for a rewarding, exciting and stretching role in which you can contribute to our purpose of helping Britain prosper and make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities?
If so, apply today and join our inclusive, purpose-led team that celebrates diversity. Together we make it possible!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
