Scrum Master (12 months)

Coventry Building Society have a rewarding new opportunity for a Scrum Master to join our CIDO function. This role will showcase demonstratable knowledge on agile theory and its practical application through frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum and Kanban. This role will require 1 – 2 days per week on site at the CBS Binley campus.

This role will support one of our delivery teams, coaching the team to become self-managing, high performing and cross-functional to ensure high-value and quality outcomes for our members and colleagues. Playing a key role in building inclusive, safe, collaborative, and commercially productive environments and taking a proactive approach to resolving issues, removing blockers and impediments so the teams can progress whilst resolving conflicts as required.

This role requires you to be on-site in Coventry 1 – 2 days per week for collaboration with peers and other CIDO events.

You’ll be an effective and self-aware servant leader to dynamic agile teams, with great resilience, you will need to maintain energy and enthusiasm and be able to work well in high-pressure situations collaborating with senior stakeholders to advise and influence key decisions on ways of working, scrum maturity and agile adoption.       

To be successful in this role, it’s essential that you’re able to demonstrate:

• Planning and scoping of the required work to act as the framework for delivery. Working with the PMO and Release Train Engineer to manage budget expenditure
• RAID management – management of risks and issues and dependencies through the PI and scrum processes
• Matrix management: ability to bridge the gap between technical teams, the project, and the wider business
• Utilising principles of servant leadership to enact tracking, escalation, and blocker removal for risk modelling teams
• Delivery governance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement/management and 3rd party supplier management.
• Coach and mentor Product Owner and Development Team to deliver business value more efficiently.
• Live by the values and practices of Scrum and embed the Agile culture at all levels.
• Assesses the Scrum maturity and act upon it.

Desirable skills for this role are:

• Strong 3rd party supplier management.
• Experience in PowerBI delivery with a mixed onshore/offshore model
• Cloud data platform experience
• Rapid delivery for data products with conceptions to MVP release

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the

Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)