Scrum Master - Decision Focus London, England
Liberty Specialty Markets
Full Time
London, England
72275 - 90000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
General information
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Creation Date: 15-Feb-2023
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Type: Full time
Ref #: 5445
Description & Requirements
Role Title: Scrum Master
Division: Digital Transformation
Department: Regulatory, Risk and Business Process portfolio
Location: London/Hybrid working
Type (Permanent/FTC/Contract): Permanent
About the Department & Team
The LSM Digital Transformation Team reports into the Chief Digital Transformation Officer and
works closely with the Global Risk Solution (GRS) technology teams to deliver innovative
solutions and capabilities that leverage our technical expertise and business understanding and
partnerships to enable market-leading performance world-wide.
The Regulatory, Risk and Business Process portfolio, deliver major initiatives, small
enhancements and business as usual support to the Regulatory and Risk function and also
delivery support to Operating Model initiatives that touch on cross functional areas.
A key area of focus is to support our Regulatory and Compliance function in delivering
capabilities that enables us to have effective Risk Management across the organisation,
including operational and to deliver tools that provide our compliance tools to support their
policies and frameworks.
LSM are progressively implementing Agile practices and seeks to recruit an Advanced Scrum
master to support the portfolio, ensuring they work with the team to ensure business needs are
understood and met.
Key Responsibilities
- Works with Product Owner to establish a vision and road map to deliver the outcomes of
- the programme of work, facilitate the breaking down of initiatives and Epics in to regular
- cycles of delivery and improve the predictability of delivery
- Supports team in the facilitation of the sessions that take the team from goals to story
- creation and implementation
- Works with Product Owner to ensure the relevant stakeholders are aligned with the vision,
- delivery and progress of delivery
- Facilitates team level ceremonies using scrum facilitation methods and techniques
- Supports the removal of blockers/impediments in the delivery of outcomes, including
- collaboration with teams outside of delivery teams, across technology and all areas of the
- business
- Ensures the change management components are part of the delivery in addition to the
- product and business change delivery
- Works as a team in ensuring risk and dependency management is used is integrated as
- a component of the ongoing and successful delivery of the backlog
- Uses retrospectives and other Lean-Agile techniques to implement small changes that
- lead to demonstrable improvement for the team
- Understands the importance of establishing trust and the need to remain neutral when
- facilitating
- Assesses the Agile/Scrum maturity of the team and helps identify areas where coaching
- may be needed to foster improvement
- Builds knowledge and understanding of the product being delivered and seeks
- opportunities to contribute towards the business goals and outcomes
- Develops skills to observe and provide consistent and impactful feedback
- Seeks to understand the current mindset and practices and how that aligns or deviates
- from the desired change
- Helps team internalize fundamentals of relevant Agile values, principles, and practices
- Guides and coaches the team on how to use Agile/Scrum values and practices to delight
- customers and achieve business outcomes
Skills and Experience
Extensive experience in acting as a scrum master within a team- Scrum Master certification
- Experience of working with delivery teams aligned to agile ways of working and creation
- of business value through business and technical change initiatives
- Strong problem solver with ability to work with a team to maximize progress, potential
- and overall effectiveness
- Delivering API's
- Awareness of risk and regulation space
- Experience of working with global users
- Excellent stakeholder management
Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration
of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to LSM's
commitment to placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity.
LSM expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal
requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and
behaviours at all times. These requirements include the Senior Managers and Certification
Regime Conduct Rules, Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data
Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.
About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)
Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a leading global insurer. We
offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all
major markets.
Our people are key to our success. That is why “Put People First” is one of the five Liberty
values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:
- Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career
- development.
- Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and
- employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive
- environment.
- Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make
- better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
- A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working
- flexibly.
For more information, please follow the links below:
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/diversityand-inclusion
