Scrum Master

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

Are you a passionate and experienced Scrum Master looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic and innovative environment? Join our team at Legal & General Retail within IT & Change and lead our scrum teams to success! As a Scrum Master, you will be accountable for delivering scrum outcomes that meet business objectives, guiding and mentoring teams through complex and diverse projects. If you thrive in a collaborative setting and are eager to drive Agile excellence, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring scrum teams in a range of complex and diverse projects
• Reviewing Agile project deliveries and guiding the team to ensure timely, successful delivery of requirements
• Building a constructive working environment to resolve issues as a team
• Leading team communication, focusing on improving transparency and ensuring the right information reaches the right people
• Collaborating closely with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Supporting the team to deliver complex Agile projects, removing impediments to their work whenever encountered
• Working closely with IT Technical Architects and IT Cloud Infra Architect to build and maintain applications in Azure cloud environments
• Creating and maintaining documentation for knowledge sharing and training

Who we're looking for:

• Experience or familiar with automated testing, pair programming and continuous delivery
• Knowing Test-Driven / Behaviour-Driven Development methods and frameworks
• Using CI / CT / DevOps tools and technologies
• Ideally SAFE qualified however others are acceptable dependent on your level of capability, it is essential to have experience in a methodology, whether working within or implementing
• Understanding established and emerging technologies and their contribution to delivering successful business outcomes
• Understanding the Business Change cycle from inception to implementation, including the organization of Change initiatives, e.g., Sponsors and Steering Committees
• Working in a professional IT environment, ideally in the insurance or financial services sector

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.