Scrum Master London, England
Simply Business
Full Time
London, England
63496 - 97813 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
We’re Simply Business
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 800,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords, and more than 1,000 other trades.
We harness cutting-edge data ability, believe in experimentation, and build our own technology to deliver better experiences for our customers and employees. This means we’re as much a technology company as one that sells insurance. We build, we fail, we learn, we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.
If Simply Business sounds like the kind of place you’ll thrive, we’d love to hear from you.
Here's what you'll be doing:
- guiding teams towards self-organisation and building a reflective, collaborative culture that embraces problem-solving and open communication
- enabling your product team to deliver business value at pace by removing blockers and minimising disruptions and distractions
- facilitating scrum events to be purposeful and effective
- creating an environment for teams to experiment and learn
- providing coaching and support to enable teams to be high performing and continuously improving
- making sure there is clarity amongst your team to enable quick decision making
- building and nurturing relationships with engineering managers, engineering leads, and business owners
- working closely with the team’s product managers and where appropriate, assisting with backlog management
- promoting confidence and transparency across teams through delivery metrics
- partnering with our agile coaches to help embed and continuously improve your team’s agile values, mindset, and practices
- collaborating with fellow scrum masters and our agile coaches to maintain a consistent approach to scrum practices and metrics
As a team we're responsible for:
- delivering end-to-end, complex initiatives across our digital portfolio of work in line with Simply Business's strategic objectives
- continuously simplifying, managing, and guiding delivery across the organisation
- As a Scrum Master, you'll work closely with our engineering teams to deliver our ambitious strategic goals. You'll be:
- self-motivated, action-oriented, and have a desire to lead teams to positive outcomes
- naturally organised, with the ability to plan and align
- able to manage complexity and simplify challenges
- a proactive and dynamic problem-solver
- able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
- commercially aware and have the ability to drive the early realisation of business value
- able to support the wider organisation to understand and work effectively with agile engineering teams
- keeping up to date with emerging practices and ideas and be able to propose improvement and innovation
What we're looking for:
- 3 years + experience as a scrum master working with a software engineering team
- in-depth knowledge and application of agile principles and practices
- significant experience of working with teams from inception through to maturity and demonstrable experience of ability to build and develop teams
- skills and knowledge of servant leadership, coaching, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and empowerment
- ability to build effective working relationships, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- passionate about agile software delivery and associated practices
- preferably hold a recognised scrum master/agile delivery qualification e.g. CSM, A-CSM, PSM I, PMI-ACP or similar
- preferably experienced in working in an insurance or fintech environment
- any experience in scaling agile practices is desirable e.g. SAFe, Scrum@Scale, Spotify etc
Our culture is inclusive and diverse
We Embrace Individuality We value what’s important to each and every SBer. Whether that be providing access to cutting edge wellbeing support, or being part of one of our many diversity networks and communities. We also take personal development seriously - we’re all about enabling big dreams.
We Trust Who We Hire We empower SBers with choice and flexibility to make the right decisions based on the needs of their roles and we’ve been working this way long before Covid19.
There’s no one-size-fits all solution when it comes to how often we get together in person, so all of our people and teams find the rhythm that suits them best when it comes to working from home or hub.
We’re innovative We've created a place for people to be curious, experience new things, and bring unique ideas to the table. If you want to learn how we do all this - head over to our Careers page where you’ll see us walk the talk
Our mission is to make Simply Business synonymous with fairness, belonging and inclusivity. We won’t be happy until we’ve created a truly inclusive culture – where every employee, whatever their background, role, or location, feels comfortable being their authentic self at work.
We all have a part to play – to learn more, to do more and to go further – in building this new reality that’ll be befitting of the diversity of the customers we serve. At Simply Business, we’re all in.
What are the benefits?
At Simply Business, our benefits let you balance life and work properly:
flexible parental leave – you can choose to take shared parental leave, plus we offer full pay for the first six months of your maternity leave and four-week fully paid paternity leave, subject to meeting the qualifying criteria- remote working – more of us are currently working remotely than usual, but longer-term you can balance working remotely with working in the office, giving you the opportunity to connect with colleagues
- mental health and wellbeing resources – we take your wellbeing seriously, giving you access to counselling (through our Employee Assistance Programme) as well as technology to support your mental health (through the Unmind app)
- paid sabbatical – two weeks off when you’ve been here for five years and four weeks off when you’ve been here for 10, 15 & 20 years
- a dedicated learning platform – including a management and leadership programme – the platform lets you balance both work and life goals
- life event leave – where every UK SBer has an extra day of leave, every two years, to use for whatever purpose they want, whether that be for moving house, welcoming a new pet to your household or celebrating your Birthday.
And we compensate you fairly:
a competitive salary that reflects your experience, our pay policy and the market we’re in from your first day- the potential to earn an annual bonus based on business performance (those on commission-led roles will be rewarded monthly)
- we match what you put into your pension up to five per cent
- a health cash plan reimburses your everyday medical expenses (with the opportunity to increase the level of your plan in your flexible benefits)
- a generous holiday entitlement of 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and an extra day of holiday every two years to use however you wish
- life assurance of four times of your basic salary
- Smart Health services including unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP
- a flexible benefits scheme with an allocated allowance each year to choose from benefits including private medical insurance, dental insurance, travel insurance, up to five days extra holiday, and gym membership
These values are important to us and our people
- Learning
- Empowerment
- Authenticity
- Pioneering
- Simplicity
These all mean something unique to every person at Simply Business, but if you’re thinking about working here, give them some thought. They’re at the heart of our story.
