Scrum Master

Are you a passionate and experienced Scrum Master looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic and innovative environment? Join our team at Legal & General Retail within IT & Change and lead our scrum teams to success! As a Scrum Master, you will be accountable for delivering scrum outcomes that meet business objectives, guiding and mentoring teams through complex and diverse projects. If you thrive in a collaborative setting and are eager to drive Agile excellence, we want to hear from you! What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring scrum teams in a range of complex and diverse projects
• Reviewing Agile project deliveries and guiding the team to ensure timely, successful delivery of requirements
• Building a constructive working environment to resolve issues as a team
• Leading team communication, focusing on improving transparency and ensuring the right information reaches the right people
• Collaborating closely with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Supporting the team to deliver complex Agile projects, removing impediments to their work whenever encountered
• Working closely with IT Technical Architects and IT Cloud Infra Architect to build and maintain applications in Azure cloud environments
• Creating and maintaining documentation for knowledge sharing and training

• Experience or familiar with automated testing, pair programming and continuous delivery
• Knowing Test-Driven / Behaviour-Driven Development methods and frameworks
• Using CI / CT / DevOps tools and technologies
• Ideally SAFE qualified however others are acceptable dependent on your level of capability, it is essential to have experience in a methodology, whether working within or implementing
• Understanding established and emerging technologies and their contribution to delivering successful business outcomes
• Understanding the Business Change cycle from inception to implementation, including the organization of Change initiatives, e.g., Sponsors and Steering Committees
• Working in a professional IT environment, ideally in the insurance or financial services sector

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in-person experience