Scrum Master: Core Platforms, Aligned to Insurance - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

End Date

Monday 12 June 2023

Salary Range

£57,078 - £63,420

Agile Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours

Job Description Summary

Job Description:

Lloyds Banking Group

Edinburgh or Bristol - For many of our office based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

Salary & Benefits:

The base salary banding for this role is £66,861 to £74,290 plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.

Core Platforms is a horizontal function that supports all of the CIOs and Platform teams.

Our purpose is to enable the bank to achieve higher levels of operational efficiency, business performance and customer centricity. This is done by providing leading technologies, innovative solutions and specialist capabilities across the entire customer journey lifecycle.

The Insurance & Wealth Lab is comprised of PEGA feature teams that deliver business changes for Insurance & Wealth Transformation.

These changes include both ongoing business priorities and major core programmes.

Our multi-faceted technology team take immense pride in delivering the best-in-breed solutions to keep I&W business up to date and competitive.

We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it

Specific activities which you'll be responsible for include things like;- Improve facilitation of change using agile methodology and support the team to understand Scrum theory and standard methodologies in refinement, prioritisation, customer engagement and introducing tools and techniques.- Working with the Team Product Owner to support the prioritisation of the backlog.

The scrum master will mentor and train to help maximise the value created by the Team.- Guiding the scrum to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning,- Encourage your team's understanding of Agile frameworks, Transformation Principles and Practices.

Support them to establish their ways of working, to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering change and value safely.- Enable those around you to understand and visualise the optimal sequence of work, measure and understand their performance through metrics- Coach and empower colleagues to self-manage, utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery

What do we need to see from applicants- Operating collaboratively at Team level as a change agent with a passion for working with people and teams to help them reach their best and deliver their best for customers and the bank.- Great communicator, articulate and clear ensuring everyone understands their role, whilst also being engaging, able to use story telling so all are focused on a common objective- Whilst we strive to operate in an Agile way, a background in traditional project management would be of benefit.

- Experience of defining, delivering, and adapting specialized products/services to meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems would be beneficial

Desirable skills to have- We'd love it if you also had knowledge and some experience of other techniques that support Agile working, such as Dev Ops, Lean, System Thinking, Queueing Theory, Complex Adaptive systems, Theory of Constraints / Critical Chain.

What can I expect in Return?

We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential

As a new colleague to the team, you'll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.

Together we'll make it possible

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.

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