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 passionate about agile methodologies and eager to lead cross-functional teams to success? Join our dynamic Legal & General Retail IT team as a Scrum Master, where you'll embed agile thinking and coach teams on applying agile values, principles, and practices. You'll play a crucial role in driving the delivery of key products and platforms, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring transparency and collaboration across all levels. If you're ready to make a significant impact and help us achieve our business goals, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Leading cross-functional teams utilizing the Scrum framework for the delivery of key products/platforms
• Facilitating Scrum events; release and sprint planning, daily stand-up, show & tell, refinement, and retrospective
• Identifying, managing, and removing team-level impediments, preventing distractions that interfere with sprint goals, and developing clear and concise escalation points
• Providing transparency and visibility by tracking and reporting team-level delivery metrics and radiating information
• Driving the adoption of engineering practices such as test-driven development, pair-programming, automated testing, and continuous delivery to improve the quality and reliability of the team’s deliverables
• Promoting and supporting the engineering team’s agile development methodologies and actively participating in the continual improvement of these
• Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution, empowering the team to self-organize and manage
• Taking responsibility for coaching and mentoring team members on agile values, principles, and practices

Who we're looking for:

• Holding a Certified Scrum Master certification (PSM1 and/or 2 or equivalent)
• Ideally a SAFe Agile accreditation/experience or other Lean delivery approaches (desirable)
• A strong understanding of agile values, principles, and practices
• A detailed knowledge of the full software delivery lifecycle and KPIs using agile methodologies
• Experience as a Scrum Master and in applying Scrum or XP engineering practices
• Demonstrable leadership and the ability to lead people of varying capabilities and backgrounds
• An understanding of architectural design principles and patterns, and software development in a DevOps/CI/CD environment

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.