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Scrum
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22 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh
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Job Title: Scrum Master
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park or Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 11th Feb 2026
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Scrum Master to play a crucial role in building digital solutions for our customers and business users. Our team is focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years. As Scrum Master, working with one or more squads you will contribute to the success of the squad through effective leadership and coaching of the team to deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from.
About you
Expert knowledge of agile principles, and practices and how these are best applied, including ability to train and coach and work alongside senior stakeholders
Knowledge and experience of one or more of the following:
Experience of people leadership, building team performance through coaching for performance, driving delivery and facilitating collaboration.
Technical – background in agile scaling, scrum mastering, working in an Agile matrix or product innovation techniques.
Architecture – designing, coding, test engineering or dev ops with the knowledge to promote technical craftsmanship and to support the teams in solving technical challenges through example and thought leadership.
Transformation – ability to facilitate, leading organisational change and transformation, change management capabilities, systems thinking and or behavioural science.
Enthusiastic and passionate about business outcomes and agility, looking to improve processes with a continuous improvement mindset, and to seek ways to improve individual performance.
Excellent communication skills and ability to motivate others, and bring calmness as and when required. Focussed on continuous improvement of both your own skills and capabilities, those of the team and seek to use external best practice to support this.
About the Role
Own the Scrum process in the team and have ownership for the success of this in the team.
Support the Product Owner to organise and manage their backlog, implement and support best practices in backlog refinement & prioritisation through different tools and techniques.
Support the team in the visualisation of their work and processes including the use of metrics to understand their performance and where to focus time on improvements.
Support the team to be self-managing and to develop a mindset of delivering value incrementally and support the team to resolve blockers.
Drive Scrum teams to successful delivery by focusing on the goal, leveraging agile practices, processes, tools and techniques.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
Scrum
Leadership
DevOps
+ show more
Do you have experience in Scrum?
Job details
Here’s how the job details align with your profile.
Job type
Permanent
Location
22 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh
Benefits
Pulled from the full job description
Annual leave
Company pension
Private medical insurance
Full job description
Job Title: Scrum Master
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park or Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 11th Feb 2026
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Scrum Master to play a crucial role in building digital solutions for our customers and business users. Our team is focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years. As Scrum Master, working with one or more squads you will contribute to the success of the squad through effective leadership and coaching of the team to deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from.
About you
Expert knowledge of agile principles, and practices and how these are best applied, including ability to train and coach and work alongside senior stakeholders
Knowledge and experience of one or more of the following:
Experience of people leadership, building team performance through coaching for performance, driving delivery and facilitating collaboration.
Technical – background in agile scaling, scrum mastering, working in an Agile matrix or product innovation techniques.
Architecture – designing, coding, test engineering or dev ops with the knowledge to promote technical craftsmanship and to support the teams in solving technical challenges through example and thought leadership.
Transformation – ability to facilitate, leading organisational change and transformation, change management capabilities, systems thinking and or behavioural science.
Enthusiastic and passionate about business outcomes and agility, looking to improve processes with a continuous improvement mindset, and to seek ways to improve individual performance.
Excellent communication skills and ability to motivate others, and bring calmness as and when required. Focussed on continuous improvement of both your own skills and capabilities, those of the team and seek to use external best practice to support this.
About the Role
Own the Scrum process in the team and have ownership for the success of this in the team.
Support the Product Owner to organise and manage their backlog, implement and support best practices in backlog refinement & prioritisation through different tools and techniques.
Support the team in the visualisation of their work and processes including the use of metrics to understand their performance and where to focus time on improvements.
Support the team to be self-managing and to develop a mindset of delivering value incrementally and support the team to resolve blockers.
Drive Scrum teams to successful delivery by focusing on the goal, leveraging agile practices, processes, tools and techniques.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The ScrumMaster position is now open for candidates interested in the MIS Executive sector. This role in Edinburgh offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in MIS Executive is a plus.