Evelyn Partners
Scrum Master
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Company Description
Evelyn Partners is a UK leader in wealth management, providing personalised, expert investment management and financial planning advice to support clients in embracing what’s next.
Our success hinges on our people and that’s our secret for longevity. We are a team of passionate professionals and everything we do is guided by our purpose – placing the power of good advice into more hands, we go further to understand the needs of our clients and what matters most to them. We’re here to help them make significant decisions with confidence, provide strong foundations for the future and guide them towards their goals.
Job Description
What will you be doing?
We’re seeking a talented individual to join our team in Bracknell. Working within the Digital Delivery team, and reporting into our Senior Scrum Master, this role will be involved in a range of digital product outcomes. As part of our investment in the future, we are building our digital capability within our Bracknell office. Our strategy is to put the power of good advice into more hands and to deliver on this promise we are building a new wealth management service for next generation clients; to help them plan and manage their financial future.
This service will combine the best of great digital product design and wealth management expertise, helping our team communicate, coordinate, and cooperate to assist cross functional teams in meeting their delivery goals.
As Scrum Master, your responsibilities will include among others:
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- Create an environment which moves teams towards high performing, and helping teams understand customer needs and outcomes, ensuring delivery remains aligned to client and business value
- Coach the Agile team in applying Agile and Scrum to achieve business value and facilitate Agile Team ceremonies & practices
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve team effectiveness, delivery flow, ways of working and organisational processes
- Facilitate productive conversations across teams and stakeholders, helping surface issues, resolve conflict and build effective working relationships
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Operations and Business teams, helping align priorities and delivery outcomes
- Support effective backlog management and refinement activities, working with the Product Owner and team, to ensure the backlog remains visible, clearly understood and ready for delivery
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role, you should:
- Qualified Scrum Master with 3 to 5 years Scrum Master experience with knowledge of multiple agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle
- Ability to lead, coach and influence team in adopting Agile principles, using metrics and data to support decision-making, identify trends and drive improvements within the team
- Ability to operate effectively in complex environments, with multiple teams, stakeholders and competing priorities
- Excellent communication, influencing, collaboration, analytical and facilitation skills with an ability to foster strong collaboration among team members and help teams remove impediments
- Strong JIRA & Confluence experience, including backlog management, reporting, workflow awareness and team collaboration practices
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Desired:
- Financial Services experience
Additional Information
As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contribution
- Hybrid working model (role dependant)
- Generous holiday package
- Option to purchase additional holiday
- Shared parental leave
We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.
We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.
Office Location: Bracknell : Bracknell (Maxis 2)
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