Scrum Master

This role comes at a fantastic time for an established yet growing part of the business. Our staff put the customer first, and we encourage your suggestions on how we can continue to exceed their expectations while providing a market leading service.

About Admiral Money

Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral. 

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some exciting plans for the future.

We’re looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

The Role

The different Domains part of the Change delivery landscape in Admiral Money aspire to be best-in-class change delivery functions, with a customer centric approach, contributing to our strategy and our product expansion, while collaborating closely with internal stakeholders/areas.

Admiral Money’s technology stack is modern and mainly centred around AWS, with a forward-looking service-driven approach. We have undergone a re-platforming effort that has allowed us to move forward our platform and architecture towards our ambitions.

The Scrum Masters are part of a delivery squad within a Domain. With the Product Owner and Tech Lead are part of the leadership of the Squad. The Scrum Masters are expected to work closely with all squad members to ensure successful and high quality delivery on a sprint-to-sprint basis.

The Scrum Master has overall accountability for the success of the squad, ensuring delivery of value, continuous improvement of processes to achieve best-in-class performance, acting as a servant leader, delivery manager and coach, whilst embedding Agile ways of working into our squads.

You will not be alone; we have Scrum Masters in Admiral Money and in Admiral Group, while also having an experienced team of colleagues that will work with you to achieve success.

Key Duties

• Accountable for maximizing squads/teams ability to deliver value, hit Sprint goals, and contribute to Strategic Objectives. Ensure the squads/teams focus on value adding activities, while handling generic tasks to shelter the team from distractions.
• Accountability for the overall process the squad/team follows to deliver value – acting as a servant leader, delivery manager and coach.
• Understand what standard activities are required for delivery and help us get ahead of the curve on possible upcoming blockers e.g. technical decisions, compliance sign off, pen testing booking, etc.
• Identify, manage, track, remove, and escalate blockers/impediments at squad level to maintain flow of value, ensuring squads/teams’ progress, calling in for support from management and stakeholders where required.
• Own and manage risks, issues, and dependencies at Squad level. Manage and resolve squad-to-squad dependencies working with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Facilitate Squad level ceremonies like Daily Huddles/Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, Sprint Review, etc. Embed best practices and experience to improve in each of those ceremonies.
• Track and report on Squad’s performance, progress on goals, and value delivery. Use visual management tools to report on Squad performance.
• Manage squads/team’s capacity, utilization, and velocity. Actively engage with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners in Admiral Money to discuss resourcing and utilization strategies. 
• Coach the squads/teams on Agile ways of working and how to use Agile in the most effective manner.
• Support the Product Owner by helping with techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management and refinement.

Essential Skills

• Proven work experience and/or certification as a Scrum Master, with expertise and deep knowledge of Agile practices and ways of working. 
• Strong skills and experience with using Agile working tools (i.e. Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Good understanding of typical Agile roles and the required skills and capabilities within a scaled agile framework of Tribes and Squads.
• Passionate about creating an Agile environment that puts customers at the heart of what we do. 

Desirables 

• Coaching, group leadership and team building experience/skills (and/or qualifications).
• Experience or understanding of Cloud-based technology solutions and delivery, including concepts like containerization, API management gateways, CI/CD Pipelines etc.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration

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