Scrum Master - Communications Lab London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
85208 - 106510 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 21 June 2023
Salary Range
£85,208 - £106,510Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for an Scrum Master. As the Scrum Master you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Job Description
Who are Lloyds Banking Group?
We're the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data strategy to build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.
About the platform
Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships. Which plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Groups strategic priority to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. We enable & deliver personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the Retail & Commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as achieving our paper-free sustainable ambitions.
Key Objectives for the Platform
- Simplify and modernise our technology estate to enable internal flexibility and increase responsiveness to evolving customer needs.
- Improve customer experience and support the Bank’s sustainability ambitions by delivering compelling, reliable, safe paperless communications.
- Enable two-way, seamless, multi-channel customer experiences that are differentiated, data-led and personalised - in line with the broader Group Conversational Banking and Channel strategies.
- Deliver engaging, empathetic communications that are tailored to individual customer needs and provided via their preferred channel.
As a Scrum Master Chapter Lead you’ll operate at Lab level as a change agent with a passion for coaching colleagues and teams to help them reach their best and deliver their best for customers and the bank. You’ll encourage your Lab’s understanding of Agile frameworks, metrics, principles and practices, and support them to establish their ways of working, to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering value safely. In summary your role as a scrum master is to help the team improve how they deliver, and flow at a sustainable pace.
Here’s where you’ll make a difference:
- Drive the Lab’s usage of relevant Agile frameworks (Scaling, Scrum, Kanban etc) to fit the work
- Drive a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement
- Coach and empower the Lab to self-manage, utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery
- Coach Lab leads and team members in cross functional teams to increase visibility of the Lab’s workGuide the lab to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning.
- Promote best practices in areas including refinement, metrics, prioritisation, stakeholder engagement and tools and techniques. Drive their implementation where appropriate
- 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
- Work alongside other Lab representatives to ensure that the flow of the true end-to-end value delivery cycle is understood and appropriately managed
- Coach and support the lab to identify blockers/barriers to effective delivery and champion their removal as a priority activity
- Lead Scrum Master community within Lab and participate in cross lab improvements to their ways of working to help improve efficiency. Share best practice across these groups
- Line management of the Scrum Masters, including helping them increase their capability to achieve their best and provide other line management support as required
What we need from you:
- Learning/curious mindset, energy, and enthusiasm for creative disruption and to continuously strive to improve the organisation, platform lab, the quality of deliverables, and your knowledge and skills
- Strength in creating, presenting and utilising flow metrics, especially through JIRA
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of Agile frameworks (such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and practical experience of working in a variety of Agile environments
- Extensive practical experience of techniques to improve teams’ ways of working
- Knowledge and experience of other techniques that support Agile working such as Devops, Lean, System Thinking, Queueing Theory, Complex Adaptive systems, Theory of Constraints/Critical Chain
Why come to work with us?
We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential! As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued. We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.
You'll also receive;
- A competitive salary.
- A discretionary bonus.
- Private medical insurance.
- Pension contributions up to a maximum of 15% of your salary.
- Share plans.
- 30 days paid holiday each year, plus Bank Holidays.
If you're excited by this role but your skills and experience don’t quite fit the job description, please apply anyway as we'd love to hear from you.
Together we’ll 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.
