Skills

Kanban Scrum Agile

Job Specifications

Scrum Master role driving agile delivery processes across two teams
Support our Internal Business Systems Technical Services Train
A role focused at constant improvement, performance, co-ordination and planning
Great Base salary + up to 20% annual performance bonus & great corporate benefits.
Country’s largest non-bank lender
Friendly team, great career opportunities
26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays
Free access to company holiday homes
Buy & sell holidays
Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
Matched pension contribution
Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
Life assurance and Critical illness cover
Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
Free local gym access
Local bar / restaurant discounts
Role based from great modern offices in Cheadle (South Manchester)

Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book.

Job Description

Job Description

In this role, you will be supporting both our Platform Engineering and Database Teams. Working alongside a Senior Product Owner in our internal Technical Services train, you will play a critical role ensuring we continue to deliver the necessary infrastructure and services that support our business and product delivery teams. This is an exciting Scrum Master role, which will see you working on the latest tech during a time of tech transformation and investment.

Beyond the usual mechanics of the Scrum Master role of i.e. planning in the work and unblocking issues etc. you will be keeping the team focused on the right priorities and protecting them from interruptions. Alongside strategic delivery these teams field a large volume of support requests and BAU activities, so managing competing priorities and conflicts between short term requests and long term objectives is key. There is real depth to this role and you will be supporting aspects of Delivery and capacity planning as you create short and longer term team plans and the necessary resource allocations to support the Product Owner.

You will ideally be an experienced Change professional with a strong grasp of Agile principles, and with proven ability to incorporate and improve Agile ways of working (often) against some more traditional Project delivery.

Working with Product Owners and Product Managers to secure Project Commitments and Resource is key. So too is the ability to speak to stakeholders in the business and foster support from your Development Teams. As such, an outgoing personality and natural ability to develop and drive personal relationships within professional parameters will be highly regarded.

Typical duties include:

Sets up and facilitates the ceremonies for the team. These would include Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Planning, Demo and Retrospectives
Continuously evaluates the effectiveness of the team’s delivery process and looks for ways to improve, working closely with the Product Owner and the team to realise these
Understands the principles of "Flow" and getting work items "done". Values this and embeds this thinking in the team
Removes impediments quickly and seen as a member of the team that can help address these issues, as well as helping the team try and address issues on their own where appropriate - maintaining a view on flow
Support the team during horizon planning sessions and ensure the flow of the session works for the team to achieve the right outcomes
Prepares the team ahead of the session so they know what to expect and appropriate pre-work is done (establishing delivery objectives, sprint goals, priority support tickets)

Qualifications

Candidates with a blend of the following skills will be very highly regarded:

Agile and Scrum Certifications
Good working knowledge of Agile concepts and agile tooling that facilitates it
Comfortable blending Agile and Waterfall methodologies and be comfortable using KANBAN
Strong communicator with the ability to influence across a broad stakeholder group
Experience working with teams delivering infrastructure level changes
Proven capability to assess and keep assessing what is important at any given time in order to prioritise and effectively manage expectations
Energises the team, keeps spirits and momentum high

Additional Information

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

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About the Company

When the door to your property ambitions seems closed, ours is always open. Whether it's a house to make a home, a business step in the right direction or your next big investment, we have the keys to unlock the doors to your property ambitions. Together, opening doors since 1974. Know more