Scrum Master

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension match up to 14%

Private medical insurance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Royal London in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to lead agile squads for a long-term investments platform project. This hybrid role combines 50% home and 50% office-based work, with emphasis on coaching, collaboration, and delivering customer value.

You will train and support teams, facilitate product ownership, and promote continuous improvement through effective use of metrics and agile practices. A strong focus on stakeholders and team performance is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of agile principles and practices, including coaching senior stakeholders.
• Experience in agile scaling, scrum mastery, and working in an Agile matrix.
• Ability to train others and promote continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own the Scrum process in the team and ensure its success.
• Support Product Owner with backlog refinement and prioritisation.
• Help the team visualise work with metrics to drive improvements.
• Encourage self-management and incremental value delivery; remove blockers.
• Drive delivery using agile practices, processes, tools and techniques.

Skills

Agile principles

Backlog management

Stakeholder coaching

Team facilitation

Communication

Job description

“It feels good to have a career with real purpose.”

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 focussed 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 delivergreat outcomes that our customers and members benefit from.

About you:

• Expert knowledge of agile principles, and practices and how these are best applied, including ability to train and 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 organisational 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 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.

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 & prioritisation through different tools and techniques.
• Support the team in the visualisation 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.

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 recognised and respected – whatever their background.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.