Scrum Master

As a Scrum Master, you will work as a member of the Agile Team who acts as the lead communicator with the Product Owner for the Development Team. You will coach and support the team, facilitating the removal of impediments and ensuring the team ceremonies happen and are consistent to drive the adoption of Agile. This role also works closely with the Release Train Engineer (RTE), to support the coordination and delivery of change across their relevant Train.

As a Scrum Master, we are looking for someone to:

• Sets up and facilitates the ceremonies for the team. These would include Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Planning, Demo and Retro


• Continuously evaluates the effectiveness of the ceremonies and looks for ways to improve these, working closely with the Product Owner and the team to realise these improvements


• Understands the principles of "Flow" and getting work items "done". Values this and embeds this thinking in the team


• Removes impediments quickly and seen as a member of the team that can help address these issues, as well as helping the team try and address issues on their own where appropriate - maintaining a view on flow


• Support the team during BRP and ensure the flow of the session works for the team to achieve the right outcomes. Prepares the team ahead of the session so they know what to expect and appropriate pre-work is done
  
  Good working knowledge of Agile concepts and agile tooling that facilitates it. Can talk about the value of the methodology versus other approaches at a basic level.


• Strong influencer with the ability to influence across Together Agile Cycle (TAC) and into broader stakeholder groups


• Practised in 'servant style' leadership (serving the Team, Product Owner and Organisation), helping everyone understand Agile concepts and ways of working; able to encourage and enable others


• Strong communicator capable of creating a culture of listening, consistency of understanding, building energy in teams, simplifying, critiquing constructively, suggesting, asserting and clearly presenting


• Proven capability to assess and keep assessing what is important at any given time in order to prioritise and effectively manage expectations


• Energises the team, keeps spirits and momentum high
  
  We're Together - the market leading property finance experts with an entrepreneurial spirit. Based in Cheadle, South Manchester, we've been established since in 1974 and have built a team of over 750 colleagues, who are passionate about supporting individuals and businesses achieve their property ambitions by making finance work for them.


We pride ourselves on our common-sense approach to lending and offer a range of mortgage and secured loan products to individuals and businesses who are typically underserved by mainstream lenders. Our customers are central to everything we do and we work hard to support them to turn challenges into opportunities which make our customers' property ambitions a reality.

We're looking for great people from all backgrounds and experiences who love working together and putting our customers at the heart of everything we do - and that starts with our brilliantly different team of people.


• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays


• Buy & sell holidays


• Discretionary annual bonus


• Matched pension contribution


• Life assurance


• Critical illness cover


• Health cash plan


• Private medical insurance


• Free access to company holiday homes


• Travel season ticket loans


• Ride to work scheme


• Free local gym access


• Local bar / restaurant discounts


Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference - we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

We care that you have a great experience with us at Together, if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience easier, please let us know and we'll do all we can.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.