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. 

We’ve got a great new role for a Scrum Master to join us in either London, Hove or Cardiff!

As a key member of L&G Retail’s Agile Practice you will be working with cross-functional teams and specialist areas within L&G’s Retail business, embedding agile thinking and supporting them in applying agile values, principles and practices to help achieve business goals and deliver successful outcomes. You’ll support all aspects of the delivery process, combining technical excellence and your understanding and practical experience of how Agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban etc) can be applied in a variety of scenarios.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading, coaching and developing Agile teams utilising Scrum and other appropriate frameworks to achieve the successful delivery of key business products and outcomes
• Facilitating Agile events and ceremonies; ensuring release and sprint planning, daily stand-up, show & tell, refinement and retrospectives are effective and drive a continuous improvement culture
• Identifying, managing, and removing team-level impediments, preventing distractions that interfere with sprint goals. Developn clear and concise escalation points.
• Providing transparency and visibility by tracking and reporting team-level delivery metrics. Radiating information back to the business
• Striving for continuous improvement across Agile processes and practices, supporting teams in understanding how to measure success and what metrics they need to measure
• Facilitating discussion and enable swift conflict resolution, empowering the team to self-organise and manage
• Taking responsibility for coaching and mentoring team members on Agile values, principles and practices
• Effectively collaborating and communicating with your team as well as key development and business stakeholders

Who we're looking for:

• Practical, demonstrable experience of supporting Agile teams to deliver business outcomes
• An understanding of applying Agile values and principles
• Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
• It would be great if you also have experience in applying Scrum to non-technical teams or blended teams
• An understanding of digital/web development and/or product delivery

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.