Scrum Master Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
57078 - 63420 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 08 September 2023
Salary Range
£71,577 - £79,530Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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 bank.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. In summary a scrum master is there to help the team deliver more value, more quickly at a sustainable pace.
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Scrum Master
SALARY: £61,641 - £71,914,
LOCATION: Edinburgh or London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
Are you looking for your next challenge in an exciting forward-thinking area bringing energy and passion to the Scrum Master role, motivating and coaching your team, using your skills and expertise to make changes and drive improvements?
About this Opportunity
We’re looking to recruit a Scrum Master in our Domestic Payments Lab who is passionate about working with people and teams to help them reach their best and deliver the best outcomes for our customers and the bank. We continuously strive to improve your knowledge and skills in the role. You'll receive support from your chapter lead and will support less experienced scrum masters in the lab. You’re encouraged to contribute to the community, sharing knowledge and great practice.
The Domestic Payments Lab sits within the Payments Services Platform where our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.
In joining us you'll focus on the following:
- Support the Team and Lab to understand and 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.
- Guide the team to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning.
- Promotes best practices in refinement, prioritisation, collaboration, and introducing tools and techniques.
- Coach and empower the 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.
- Coach and support the team to identify blockers / barriers to effective delivery and remove these.
- Promote psychological safety and wellbeing creating a safe, trusting, and open environment for the team.
What You’ll Need
- Learning/curious mindset, energy and enthusiasm for creative disruption and to continuously strive to lead improving the organisation, team, and your knowledge and skills in the role.
- Knowledge, understanding and practical experience working and evolving into Agile Frameworks.
- Knowledge and some experience of other techniques that support Agile working, such as DevOps, System Thinking, Queueing Theory.
- Scrum Master Certification – PSM1 or equivalent is desirable however support will be available to achieve this.
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Any generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
