Scrum Master Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
61641 - 68490 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 13 September 2023
Salary Range
£0 - £0Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Scrum Master
SALARY: £61,641 - £68,490
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
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
Do you want to use your skill and passion as a Scrum Master to inspire teams to grow and improve in an organisation which is committed to empowering its people?
About this opportunity
The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market.
The Digital & Ways to Pay Lab, enabled by The Everyday Banking Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group.
As a Scrum Master, you'll grow and learn in an environment where our people are passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers.
Day to day, you'll be expected to:
- encourage your team’s understanding of Agile frameworks and support them to establish their ways of working.
- teach your team to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering change and value safely.
- Actively participate, share ideas and drive improvement in our Scrum Master community.
About this opportunity
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!
As an experienced Scrum Master, you’ll bring a learning and curious mind set along with energy and enthusiasm for creative disruption.
Specifically, we’re looking for:
- Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship and leadership, both individually and at team/squad levels. A phenomenal teammate!
- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Ability to facilitate organisation-wide adoption of best practices and lessons learned.
- Experience of working independently and finding opportunities to provide guidance and training to less experienced Scrum Masters
- Use of Confluence / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working
- Experience of collecting and using data to drive team improvement.
- Experience in coaching a Product Owner in effective Product Backlog management
- Passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across the organisation.
- Confident delivering formal and informal training.
- A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain why.
- A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding new ways of working.
- Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without having formal organisational hierarchy.
- Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Recognised Professional Scrum Master qualification (e.g. PSM1/Scrum Alliance).
- Working with a software engineering team.
- Facilitating sessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work.
- Use of tracking/reporting tools (EazyBI / PowerBI / equivalents).
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. 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:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- 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.
