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Job Description

We currently have exciting opportunity for an experienced Edinburgh based Scrum Master to join our team. We're looking for someone who is not afraid to challenge and try new ways of working to help us shape our ‘Bank of the Future as part of a £3billion transformation programme’.

Our team

We're the Payments and Economic Crime prevention (PECP) team and our vision is to promote social wellbeing for our customers by enabling them to make and receive payments and protect them from fraud and financial crime.

As part of our key strategic priorities, our PECP Value Stream labs are collectively building next generation solutions for payments and fraud and financial crime protection, embracing the latest technology and regulations across open banking and Fintech ecosystem frontiers combining our deep domain and technology capability. We do this by building a modern, efficient, and resilient payments capability which addresses rising threats, we'll continue to ensure improved customer experience and meet our customers changing customer needs.

About the opportunity

We currently have demand for experienced Scrum Masters with a range of complexities, Scrum sizes, delivery interdependencies, products, and service components. As a Scrum Master you’ll operate 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.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference:

• Serve & support the team and Lab to understand and utilise Agile frameworks (Scaling, Scrum, Kanban etc) and Agile events (Scrum of Scrums, PI planning, retrospectives etc)
• Help the Product Owner to manage an effective Product Backlog
• Guide the team to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning; coach and support team to identify blockers/barriers
• Promote best practices in refinement, prioritisation, stakeholder engagement and introducing tools and techniques.
• Coach and empower the team 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.

What we need from you:

• Knowledge and understanding of Agile Frameworks (such as the Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SaFE).
• Practical experience of working in agile environments (preferably in a software engineering environment and /or large-scale complex programmes).
• Demonstrable knowledge and 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.
• Knowledge, understanding, and experience working with the Transformation Principles and Practices (TP&Ps).

We'd also welcome someone with a Scrum Master Certification – PSM1 or equivalent, however support will be available to achieve this.

About our culture and workplace

Our learning culture is important, and we’ll continuously strive to improve your knowledge and skills in the role. You'll receive support from your chapter lead and you may support less experienced scrum masters in the lab. You’ll also be encouraged to contribute to the community, sharing knowledge and great practice.

We'll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that focuses on equal opportunity and supports career progression. A role within our team will provide the chance to work flexibly and collaboratively. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission.

Together we make it possible! Furthermore, we'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

You can expect a career that's full of opportunity and a package that includes:

• Base salary: £48,784 - £60,980
• A 4% Flexible benefit cash pot you can shape to fit your lifestyle
• A performance related variable discretionary bonus
• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Health cover
• Access to share scheme and staff discounts!

Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today; we'd love to hear from you...

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.