Scrum Master

There couldn't be a better time to join us as a Scrum Master!

It's the role of our Chief Information Office, Group Services and Security, to provide the backbone and infrastructure upon which this future organisation will sit.

Our team provides automated and insightful enterprise technology management tooling for the Group. We're enabling and supporting the infrastructure of a number of strategic transformational initiatives.

As a Scrum Master, you’ll operate at Team level and work with teams with varying experience in agile delivery. You'll join a newly formed Technology Data Lab, and receive support and coaching from the Scrum Master Chapter Lead and other Scrum Masters in the team.

As a Scrum Master, you'll:

• Support the team to understand and utilise Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, helping to establish their ways of working, to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering value
• Help to shape and guide adoption product mindset & agile new ways of working, which is key to deliver our vision
• Facilitate Agile events (such as Sprint planning, Stand-ups, Retrospective, etc.)
• Help the team to manage the Product Backlog effectively
• Promote best practices in areas including refinement, prioritisation and stakeholder engagement
• Encourage and empower the team to self-manage, utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery
• Enable the team to understand and visualise the optimal sequence of work, measure and understand their performance through metrics (such as throughput and cycle time) and use this as the basis for their improvement activity
• Support the identification of blockers, dependencies and barriers to effective delivery and help to remove or escalate these where appropriate

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

You may be new to a career as a Scrum Master, or only just started your journey...but having awareness of, exposure to, and passion for Agile techniques and methodology is essential.

You're driven, dynamic and innovative and:

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum and Kanban
• Proven working knowledge of Agile workflow management tools (such as Jira and Confluence)
• Demonstrate a learning/curious mindset, energy, and enthusiasm for creative disruption, and to continuously strive to improve the organisation, team, and your knowledge and skills
• You're a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams, and the ability to help them deliver their best work

And any experience of these would be really useful

• An awareness of other techniques that support Agile working, such as DevOps, Systems Thinking, Scaled Agile, Theory of Constraints / Critical Chain

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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