Royal London
Scrum Master
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Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home / 50% office based
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Scrum Master to play a crucial role in building digital solutions for our customers and business users. Our team is focused on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years. As Scrum Master, working with one or more squads you will contribute to the success of the squad through effective leadership and coaching of the team to deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from.
About you:
- Expert knowledge of agile principles, practices, and how these are best applied, including the ability to train, coach, and work alongside senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of one or more of the following:
- Experience of people leadership, building team performance through coaching for performance, driving delivery, and facilitating collaboration.
- Technical – background in agile scaling, scrum mastering, working in an Agile matrix, or product innovation techniques.
- Architecture – designing, coding, test engineering, or dev ops with the knowledge to promote technical craftsmanship and to support the teams in solving technical challenges through example and thought leadership.
- Transformation – ability to facilitate, leading organizational change and transformation, change management capabilities, systems thinking, and/or behavioural science.
- Enthusiastic and passionate about business outcomes and agility, looking to improve processes with a continuous improvement mindset, and to seek ways to improve individual performance.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate others, and bring calmness as and when required. Focussed on continuous improvement of both your own skills and capabilities, those of the team, and seek to use external best practice to support this.
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About the Role:
- Own the Scrum process in the team and have ownership for the success of this in the team.
- Support the Product Owner to organise and manage their backlog, implement and support best practices in backlog refinement & prioritization through different tools and techniques.
- Support the team in the visualization of their work and processes including the use of metrics to understand their performance and where to focus time on improvements.
- Support the team to be self-managing and to develop a mindset of delivering value incrementally and support the team to resolve blockers.
- Drive Scrum teams to successful delivery by focusing on the goal, leveraging agile practices, processes, tools, and techniques.
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If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply!
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognized and respected – whatever their background.
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