Scrum Master

Tesco Bank; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Edinburgh seeks a Scrum Master to join their Agile team. In this role, you will facilitate collaboration across teams, ensuring Agile practices are implemented effectively. Ideal candidates will have experience in product delivery and a strong understanding of Agile methods. This position offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Performance-related annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Colleague Clubcard discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale agile environments (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
• Background in retail, banking, or customer-facing digital products

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration
• Ensure agile principles are embedded and evolving
• Collaborate with Product Owners to maintain a healthy backlog
• Track and report on delivery metrics to support decision making

Skills

Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a technology or product delivery environment

Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.)

Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills

Ability to use data to drive decisions and improvements

Education

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PSM I/II, SSM or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

General information

Job Title: Scrum Master

Ref #: 9356

Location: Edinburgh

Department: BAR - Lean Portfolio Management

Business Area: Lean Portfolio Management

Working time: Full-Time

Date Published: 05-08-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - Between £51,280-76,920 + annual bonus

Location – Edinburgh, Permanent

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close 12th August at 5pm

A chance to thrive

We’re looking for a Scrum Master to join our Agile team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Scrum Master at Tesco, you will be a servant leader and agile champion, enabling one or more cross-functional teams to deliver value effectively and sustainably.

• You’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centricity while ensuring agile principles and practices are embedded and evolving.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure a healthy and prioritised backlog, track and report on delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time, Defect density) to support informed decision making.
• Engage with our agile community to work with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to help scale agile practices across the organisation
  
  

We need you to have

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a technology or product delivery environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to use data to drive decisions and improvements.
  
  

And if you have any of these, even better

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PSM I/II, SSM or equivalent.
• Experience in large-scale agile environments (e.g., SAFe, LeSS).
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence.
• Background in retail, banking, or customer-facing digital products.
  
  

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s In It For You

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
  
  

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that’s right for you. It’s about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers.

We’ve created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time.

Lovely.

Say hello to life in Tesco Bank.