Scrum Master

Job Title - Scrum Master

Location - London

Contact Type - Permanent

At Royal London we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most trusted and recommended financial company in the UK.
 

We are the largest mutual life, pensions and Investment Company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £118.9 billion and latest ProfitShare pay out to members of £142 million.  Group businesses provide around 9.0 million policies and employ 3,976 people (figures as of 05 Feb 2019). 

The main purpose of the role is for each Scrum team to deliver business outcomes and associated solutions incrementally, focusing on delivery, while continuously improving teams collaborate with Product Owners and business stakeholders to ensure business benefits are realised on time, or early, within budget and to agreed quality standards.
 

What will you be doing

• Responsible for ensuring Agile is understood. 
• Coordinate agile teams’ work and interactions with stakeholders.
• Facilitate improvement activities, external reporting, and the removal of obstacles. 
• Ensure the Agile Teams adheres to agile theory, practices, and rules
• Ensure obstacles are overcome.
• Ensure adherence to development practice standards (e.g. design governance, code reviews etc.).
• Ensure the team and product owner are working in an Agile way, and constantly improving.
• Use Value Stream Mapping to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Coach the development team
• Support the Product Owner
   

What we’re looking for
 

• Excellent understanding of software development, the software development roles and how they work together.
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills
• Good understanding of stakeholders and team members’ objectives, challenges, concerns and needs.
• Excellent leadership skills and “can do” attitude - can inspire and energise people by gaining respect and trust

Skills that will help you in the role
 

• Active ScrumMastering experience, typically gained over 1 or 2 years. 
• Flexible and adaptable to different business and technical environments. 
• Strong delivery focus

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What we offer
 

• We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits
  such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 
• Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It’s what makes Royal London a great place to work.
• Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.
• Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10