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.
