Senior Scrum Master

Job Title: Senior Scrum Master

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:Edinburgh or Alderley Edge

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 12th December 2025

We are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Senior Scrum Master to play a lead role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

COO (Chief Operating Office)aims to be a catalyst for change to drive innovation and operational excellence within Royal London.

We work across Royal London to deliver the Groups strategic partnership with the different business areas we work toembed agility adaptability and customer/colleague focus to deliver sustainable growth. We make sure that we deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from and we also make sure we get the best value from all of our procurement interactions.

As Senior Scrum Master you will be part of the senior team driving new ways of working in Workplace pensions. Alongside other colleagues you will help shape the work and metrics to improve the team performance to drive up self-organisation and self-management.

About the role

• Champion the agile values principles and tools and strive to build organisational agility
• Take responsibility for the Scrum Masters in the portfolio to ensure that they deliver the business outcomes and follow the agile best practice and standards
• Enable the coordination of agility at scale involving the work of multiple teams to ensure the initiative delivery is optimised
• Drive Scrum teams to successful delivery by focusing on the goal leveraging agile practices processes tools and techniques
• Ability to influence coach and train others on agile adoption and best practice

About you

• Experience of agile values principles and practices and how these are best applied against the organisational context
• Experience of leading teams
• Experienced in people management and development
• Highly competent in using tools such as ADO Jira Confluence to aid planning reporting and experienced in implementing metrics reporting
• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and team performance
• Mastery in one of the following areas of agility:
• Technical background in agile scaling patterns or structures
• 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
• Business ability to apply business strategy and management frameworks to employ agile as a competitive business advantage such as Lean Start-up product innovation techniques flow-based business process management approaches and other techniques that relate to innovating in the business domain

Transformation ability to facilitate catalyse and (as appropriate) lead organisational change and transformation.

About Royal London

Were the UKs largest mutual life pensions and investment company offering protection long-term savings and asset management products and services.

OurPeople Promiseto 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.

Weve 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

Were anInclusiveemployer. 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.