Scrum Master, Cloud Services

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Salary: £48,784 to £79,274 plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health. Location: Halifax; Bristol; Edinburgh; Leeds; Manchester or London Who?Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future! Cloud Services - Platform Engineering team are looking for an agile Scrum Master. Our teams offer a range of DevOps products, tools and services to consumers of our cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure). Our strategic roadmap includes delivering new platforms, products and services and continually improving our existing ones. This Scrum Master role supports the Platform Engineering teams to manage E2E delivery of change releases for the 3 public clouds operated by LBG (GCP, Azure, AWS) as well as any BAU / operational tasks. Taking ownership for coordination of day-to-day tasks and delivery activities within a Product Team, release management cycles, ensuring delivery is managed smoothly and effectively with processes, resource and MI in place as needed.

The Role

As a Scrum Master you'll be working on across the Group's flagship platforms to improve and enhance the strategic platforms (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS) that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision for 2022 and beyond. The role will have end-to-end accountabilities including:Working with Agile frameworks like Scrum/KanbanCoaching teams through transformation journeysIdentifying shortcomings or inefficiencies: proposing improvements to existing processes, systems and proceduresBring passion to role: inspiring and motivating team members What you'll get involved with:Delivery of enterprise-class automated solutionsArranging and facilitating team ceremonies/meetingsPlanning work with the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Leads and Squad LeadsReporting on progress of work itemsIdentify shortcomings and opportunities, then suggest and implement improvements to existing team practicesDriving platform onboarding activities + enhancementsForming a team, including limited line management activities for partner colleagues. What's needed to be considered for this job?Essential:Hands on experience working with Agile frameworks like Scrum/KanbanProven experience as a Scrum MasterExperience and understanding of Lean and Agile principles and their applications in a complex technical / structural environmentUse of Confluence / Jira work management toolsExperience in coaching teams through transformation journeysAble to manage challenges, workloads and support necessary for engineers in a Product Team to deliver to the team's vision Desirable:Exposure to Public Clouds - Azure, GCP or AWSScrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or equivalent), or equivalentWorked within a Cyber Security or an Engineering function previouslyExpertise in MI + reporting (EazyBI / PowerBI / equivalents) What can I expect in Return?We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential!As a new colleague to the team, you'll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and equal opportunity and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Together we'll make it possible!