Scrum Master Chapter Lead - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

End Date

Sunday 26 March 2023

Salary Range

£65,288 - £81,610

Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

At Lloyds Banking Group we're embracing collaborative, more agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers, and businesses.

Join us and discover how this could work for you.

Job Description:

At Lloyds Banking Group we're embracing collaborative, more agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers, and businesses.

Join us and discover how this could work for you.

About the team:

The Pensions Core Lab delivers a complex portfolio of legal, regulatory, and critical improvements across a wide range of customers and stakeholders with a focus on Pension & Longstanding products.

We ensure our customers are kept safe and informed, and no breaches are logged, or fines received by IP&I.

We understand policy, shape solutions, and engage directly with 3rd parties, or other Labs and Platforms, to deliver improvements in customer outcomes.

Within the Pensions Core Lab, we follow the Fastpath methodology, and our initiatives are typically led by Product Owners (PO) and Engineering Leads (EL), who work with their Project/Programme Managers, Business and Data Analysts (BA/DA) and various Engineering colleagues to deliver our agreed outcomes.

About the role:

As a Scrum Master you'll operate across our 3 initiative teams 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.

You'll encourage the team's understanding of Agile ways of working, Transformation Principles and Practices, and support them to establish their ways of working whilst also working in a Fastpath environment, and to self-manage and continuously improve in delivering change and value safely.

In summary, a scrum master is there to help the team deliver more value, more quickly at a sustainable pace.

At Pension Core Lab a learning culture is important. We continuously strive to improve your knowledge and skills in the role. You'll receive support from your chapter lead. You'll be encouraged to contribute to the wider community, sharing knowledge and great practice.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

Support the lab to understand and utilise Agile frameworks (Scaling, Scrum, Kanban etc) and events (scrum of scrums, PI planning, retrospectives etc) to understand the value and purpose of them.
Coach and teach teams/POs/Delivery Leads/ Programme Leads in developing OKRs/product visions and roadmaps, lagging and leading measures and promoting teams in self organisation.
Guide the team to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning.
Promotes best practices in areas including refinement, prioritisation, stakeholder engagement and introducing tools and techniques.
Encourage and empower the lab 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 (throughput, cycle time, happiness etc) and use this as the basis for their improvement activity.
Promote psychological safety and wellbeing creating a safe, trusting, and open environment for the team.
Coach and support the lab to identify blockers/barriers to effective delivery and remove
Learning/curious mindset, energy, and enthusiasm for creative disruption and to continuously strive to improve the organisation, team, and your knowledge and skills.
Helping the lab team increase their capability to achieve their best and provide support as required.

What we need from you:

Familiarity with the Fastpath delivery framework to be able to support the team as they develop new Ways of Working
Knowledge, and practical experience of Agile Frameworks (such as the Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SaFE) and how elements of these can be applied to build an efficient hybrid Lab in LBG
Demonstrates knowledge, understanding and experience working with the Transformation Principles and Practices (TP&Ps).
Scrum Master Certification
PSM1 or PSM2 or equivalents
Desirable to show 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 do I get in return?

On top of our Group ethos, we're genuine about both equal opportunity and our colleagues representing the communities we serve.

We support colleagues by advancing the best in our people through personal development, training, qualifications, and upskilling on the job.

Our continued dedication to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

We're focused on creating a values-led c