Scrum Master | 12 months fixed term contract

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.

We are seeking a Technical Scrum Master to lead and support cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of agility and continuous improvement. This role involves embedding agile methodologies, coaching teams on the effective application of agile values, principles, and practices, and driving alignment with business objectives to ensure the successful delivery of outcomes.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of delivery, combining technical acumen with hands-on experience in applying Scrum across diverse scenarios. They will be responsible for the leadership, management, and performance of a multidisciplinary engineering team, including software engineers, testers, and business analysts. Additionally, the role will contribute to building team capability and capacity within their area of technical expertise.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading a cross-functional team in delivering key products and platforms, applying the Scrum framework to foster collaboration and value-driven outcomes
• Facilitating essential Scrum ceremonies, including release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews (show & tell), backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Identifying and managing team-level impediments, minimizing distractions and establishing clear escalation paths to support the achievement of sprint goals.
• Ensuring transparency and visibility by tracking, reporting, and radiating delivery metrics to relevant stakeholders
• Advocating for modern engineering practices such as test-driven development, pair programming, automated testing, and continuous delivery to enhance quality and reliability
• Supporting and promoting agile development methodologies, actively contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes and practices
• Coaching and mentoring team members on agile values, principles, and practices to cultivate a high-performing, collaborative environment
• Collaborating effectively with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment across technical and business domains
  
  

Who we're looking for:

• An experienced professionally certified Scrum Master who has helped transition and coach teams in applying the Scrum framework, and agile practices
• Experience on leading and shaping agile teams operating in a scaled Agile environment (e.g. SAFE)
• Desirable to have experience working with a mix of fully dedicated and partially aligned resource in engineering teams. Experience as an agile evangelist helping to evolve the culture of an organisation.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring diverse teams and senior stakeholders in the Scrum framework and desirable to have experience of other agile tools, practices and systems such as Kanban
• Experience in motivating high performing teams, fostering and culture of continuous improvement, failing forwards and learning to improve future success
• Experience of working with remote, virtual and cross functional teams, conducting virtual ceremonies (events) using digital collaboration tools

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 the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
  
  

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.