Scrum Master

Who we are

Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture.

Role Description

Allianz Speciality have an excellent opportunity for a Scrum Master who is passionate about change and transformation and is looking to further develop their Agile ways of working.

As a Scrum Master (SM) you will act as a servant leader to one or more Scrum teams, normally within a wider scaled agile model. You'll use agile values, principles, and practices to help the team reach expected outcomes and continuously improve.  

Your Focus:

• Facilitate the agile teams to deliver their prioritised outcomes and follow the chosen agile methods and frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).

• Ensure Agile events happen on agreed cadence, meet their designed purpose, are well planned, timeboxed and effective and identify early and support the removal of blockers and impediments that may affect the Agile team's progress and distract them from delivering their committed outcomes.

• Support Product Owners to provide Product and sprint goals, maintain the Product Backlog and help ensure that each Product Backlog Item is clearly articulated according to agile best practice.

• Facilitate agile teams and individuals to understand the importance of metrics, to become self-managing and cross-functional and help them demonstrate their values (i.e. Commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect).

• Support teams in assessing their agile maturity and ultimately provide coaching for the team to higher maturity levels at a sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and organisation.

• Foster a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, emphasising healing and problem-solving.

• Help to create a high energy, motivating environment for the Agile team making use of the team charter and retrospective ceremonies to identify how to continuously improve the teams enjoyment and effectiveness of ways of working

• Set up and encourage the use of Agile tooling to allow teams to thrive and collaborate wherever they may be situated.

About You

You will have previous history working in a Financial Services environment with knowledge of General insurance an advantage.

You will have previous experience/ Knowledge of :

• Agile values, principles and practices and an understanding of and evidence of application of Scrum in practice

• Delivering quality end to end with excellent eye for detail.

• Problem-solving and removing blockers to progress.

• Handling conflict and competing demands from stakeholders

• In-depth Scrum, Kanban and DevOps experience and knowledge of the key concepts of TDD/BDD.

• Working with distributed teams

• leadership and management of people with the willingness to lead, motivate and inspire others to achieve their full potential.  

• Skills mapping and cross skilling experience to encourage T-Shaped teams

• Agile product, project or change delivery and experience of agile tooling and work management tools such as Jira, Miro & Confluence

• Experience working across a portfolio of large-scale projects in an international organisational environment.

• Experience of different approaches to change delivery aligned to business outcomes such as Agile, Kanban, and new approaches System Thinking Critical Chain’.

• Financial and budget management for change initiatives

• Resource management – requesting, evaluating and dealing with resource disruption

Qualifications: 

• Educated to degree level or relevant demonstrable business experience

• Scrum Master certification (PSM/CSM or equivalent) 

Our Ways of Working

The role will be based at Allianz Ditton Park, Riding Court Road, Datchet SL3 9LL.

Our office with flex model means that you will have the opportunity to work from home as well as the office. As a hybrid worker you will be in the office between 2 and 16 days per month depending on individual and business need. This will be discussed at interview stage.

Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. 

Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

What We Will Offer You 

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• 24 days holiday

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options

• Annual performance related bonus

• Contributory pension scheme

• Development days

• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet

• Retail discounts

Our Purpose and Values

We secure your future

Be Brave | With Heart | Everyone Counts | Inspiring Trust

Our purpose and values are more than just words on a website - they are the why and how of Allianz.  They influence everything we do and guide us how to do it.

Created by our people, for our people, they shape our culture, bring us together, and inspire us to be the best.  Building on inclusive culture for us all to succeed.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations, Allianz is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, a Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion members, signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. 

We recognise the strength of neurodiversity in the workplace, and the far-reaching benefits of embracing a spectrum of thinking styles and innovative capabilities. We proudly welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, and can offer tailored adjustments to remove barriers and set you up for success in your career.
At Allianz, we encourage our people to advocate for what they need, we listen, and we act – this could include providing assistive technology, ergonomic specialist equipment, mentoring and coaching, or flexibility in the way you work, among a wide range other adjustments.

Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow.