Job Description

Job Title: Scrum Master Chapter Lead

Salary: \xc2\xa378,634 to \xc2\xa397,135

Location: Bristol

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of our time in at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Scrum Master Chapter Lead operates at Lab level and is 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.

We encourage the lab\'s understanding of Agile frameworks, Transformation Principles and Practices (TP&Ps), and support them to establish their ways of working, self-manage and continuously improve in delivering change and value safely. In summary a scrum master is there to help the team deliver more value, more quickly at a sustainable pace.

At the Lending Lab, a learning culture is important. We continuously strive to improve your knowledge and skills in the role. As chapter lead you\'ll lead a Chapter of Scrum Masters which will include line management, supporting and developing the capability and learning of the chapter.

Day to day, you\'ll be expected to:

Support the lab to understand and utilise Agile frameworks (Scaling, Scrum, Kanban etc) and events (scrum of scrums, PI planning, retrospectives etc) to understand the value and purpose of them.

Coach and teach teams/POs/Delivery Leads/ Programme Leads in developing OKRs/product visions and roadmaps, lagging and leading measures and promoting teams in self organisation.

Guide the team to break work into small, discrete pieces of value or learning.

Promotes best practices in areas including refinement, prioritisation, stakeholder engagement and introducing tools and techniques.

Encourage and empower the lab 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 (throughput, cycle time, happiness etc) and use this as the basis for their improvement activity.

Promote psychological safety and wellbeing creating a safe, trusting, and open environment for the team.

Coach and support the lab to identify blockers/barriers to effective delivery and remove

Learning/curious mindset, energy, and enthusiasm for creative disruption and to continuously strive to improve the organisation, team, and your knowledge and skills.

Lead Scrum Master community, Value Stream, Lab and Chapter improvements to their ways of working to help improve efficiency. Share great practice across these groups.

Line management of the chapter scrum masters, including helping them increase their capability to achieve their best and provide other line management support as required.

What you\'ll need

Extensive knowledge and understanding of Agile frameworks (such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFE, Nexus), and practical experience of working in a variety of Agile environments.

Extensive understanding and experience of change delivery lifecycles.

Extensive practical experience working with the Transformation principles and Practices (TP&Ps).

Knowledge and experience of other techniques that support Agile working such as Devops, Lean, System Thinking, Queueing Theory, Complex Adaptive systems, Theory of Constraints/Critical Chain.

Scrum Master Certification - PSM1 and PSM2 or equivalents

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that we\'re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background identity or culture.

We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it\'s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We\'re disability confident. So, if you\'d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes. Just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

An annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

30 days holiday with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

Lloyds Banking Group