Scrum Master - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Admiral

Admiral

Verified Company

Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Closing date

05/03/2024

About Admiral Money
Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group.

We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral.

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some exciting plans for the future.

We're looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

The Role

The different teams part of the change delivery landscape in Admiral Money aspire to be best-in-class change delivery functions, with a customer centric approach, contributing to our strategy and our product expansion, while collaborating closely with internal stakeholders/areas.

Admiral Money's technology stack is modern and mainly centred around AWS, with a forward-looking service-driven approach.

In 2023 we have undergone a re-platforming effort that has allowed us to move forward our platform and architecture towards our ambitions.

The Role's Objective

The Scrum Masters are part of a delivery Squad within a Tribe, with the Product Owner and Tech Lead are part of the leadership of the Squad.

The Scrum Masters are expected to work closely with all squad members and other relevant stakeholders to ensure successful and high quality delivery on a sprint-to-sprint basis.

The Scrum Master has overall accountability for the success of the squad, ensuring delivery of value, continuous improvement of processes to achieve best-in-class performance, acting as a servant leader, delivery manager and coach, whilst embedding Agile ways of working into our squads.

The main responsibilities of the role are to make the squads/teams successful and ensure they perform to the best of their abilities, ensuring they focus on the right activities, while managing all the Agile ceremonies and artifacts, as well as managing/removing dependencies, impediments and handling generic tasks to shelter the team from distractions and also shelter them from outside interference.

Also, the Scrum Master has responsibility for upskilling the Squad in Agile ways of working that enable the team to self-organise, manage, and deliver value for our customers and company.

You will not be alone; we have Scrum Masters in Admiral Money and in Admiral Group, while also having an experienced team of colleagues that will work with you to achieve success.

Key Contribution Areas

Accountable for maximizing Squads/teams ability to deliver value, hit Sprint goals, and contribute to Strategic Objectives. Ensure the squads/teams focus on value adding activities and not getting sidetracked, while handling generic tasks to shelter the team from distractions.
Accountability for the overall process the squad/team follows to deliver value acting as a servant leader, delivery manager and coach. Coaches the squads/teams on Agile ways of working and how to use Agile in the most effective manner.
Understands what standard activities are required for delivery and help us get ahead of the curve on possible upcoming blockers and being proactive about them i.e. technical decisions, compliance sign off, pen testing booking, etc.
Identifies, manages, tracks, removes, and escalates blockers/impediments at squad level to maintain flow of value, ensuring squads/teams' progress, calling in for support from management and stakeholders where required.
Owns and manages risks, issues, and dependencies at Squad level. Manages and resolves squadtosquad dependencies working with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
Facilitates Squad level ceremonies like Daily Huddles/Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, Sprint Review, etc. Embed best practices and experience to improve in each of those ceremonies.
Tracks and reports on Squad's performance, progress on goals, and value delivery. Uses visual management tools to report on Squad performance.
Manages squads/team's capacity, utilization, and velocity. Actively engages with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners in Admiral Money to discuss resourcing and utilization strategies. Shelters the team from outside interference.
Build a safe environment for continuous improvement: Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problemsolving. Drive collaboration and continuous improvement mindset in the squads/teams. Drives transparency and openness of communication in the squads/teams.
Build a close relationship with all the squad, including the Product Owner to support each other with your roles. Specifically support the Product Owner and Tech Lead by helping with techniques for effective Product