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NEXUS Scrum Master

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
1 to 3 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Deadline
30 Sep 2019 21:59

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Company Info

  • Working in Legal & General is about being there for our customers. We’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK.

  • Being a part of L&G team is also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We will help your talent thrive in a supported environment with flexible working and autonomy, sharing our success and being rewarded for your performance with a generous benefits package.

Department Info

  • In 2018 LGIM took an ambitious decision to create an integrated investment management and client portfolio platform. Rather than creating something new, the aim was to leverage the existing investments in technology and people and enhance with new functionality to create a single cohesive platform. Nexus is a 21st century, scalable solution that manages investments, IT and data demand centrally. It is not a project, it is an integrated “Solutions” platform underpinned by a suite of shared services and data infrastructure. Setup as an enduring Agile value stream with sustained investment, Nexus is fundamentally transforming the way Legal and General Investment Management operates.

  • A permanent team was created with colleagues from LGIM Investment (led by Michael Kovacs in Chicago) and LGIM Technology (lead by Stuart Campbell in London). Scrum teams use Agile working methodologies enabling functional enhancements and features to be deployed rapidly and frequently, quickly delivering value to our clients. Nexus is set up in a flexible structure meaning quarterly pivots on priorities can be handled with minimal disruption. Working across four core domains (Control, Portfolio Management, Data and Risk Analytics) the team have already delivered a number of solutions.

  • The combined team is an integral part of the Investments team and has dual reporting lines into both the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Digital & Technology Officer. The blueprint for the next stage of the Nexus development programme has just been cut with build due to start in Q3. Nexus will be cutting-edge, cloud-native, built for now and tomorrow as our first truly global, dashboard-driven, scalable platform with a consistent-user experience from any office across the globe.

Job Duties

  • This is an opportunity to join an exciting global team combining both Technology and Investments professionals. Our new area is set up to be a collaborative, open space environment where people can interact and thrive. Our culture is highly team-based--celebrating our collective successes—as well as focused on learning and generating ideas. Whether through our “Investment 101” learning sessions, our regular “hackathons”, or general support of continued investment in training and development you will have an opportunity to be a key member of the core team driving LGIM’s future.
  • Beyond the usual benefits we place great emphasis on personal development with each team member given 10% of their time to use. We have a relaxed dress code, a very flat hierarchy and run a number of team events throughout the year to reflect, inform and have a bit of fun. You don’t need to be an expert in Investment Management to work with us just a desire to learn, get involved and be part of a successful team making a real difference.
  • Responsible for management and prioritisation of the product backlog with the Product Owner/Feature Analyst including working with product owner and end consumers to ensure the current highest priority items are being addressed
  • Work with the business and development team to deliver the agreed work within the agreed timescales through timely planning of sprints and releases to ensure that the team are focussed on the right things at the right time emphasising the importance of regular deliveries and a minimal shippable viable product
  • Provide 3rd line support, as appropriate, principally to applications within Investments
  • Lead by example using agile best practices, seeking new ways of working and improving the velocity and quality of the teams' outputs whilst coaching the team to encourage self-organisation and flat structure and empower the team to own the sprint goals and backlog
  • Ensure that all customers/stakeholders are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s principles on Customer Experience, Everyday Matters, Our Strategy, Employee Engagement, Continuous Improvement and TCF policy
  • To manage the team in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, so that the team’s business objectives are achieved consistently

Skills Required

  • Scrum Master Certification
  • Product Owner Certification
  • Broad range of product management knowledge and working for and within a scrum team
  • Demonstrated ability to help develop product backlogs from high level design at feature level to detailed user stories with acceptance criteria
  • Demonstrated ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Must be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach with developers and subject matter experts to establish the approach to features and ensure good communication of requirements
  • Must have experience of release and sprint planning
  • Experience and knowledge of velocity improvement through continuous improvement
  • Must have experience of running a scrum team, facilitating ceremonies and coaching the team
  • Must be able to demonstrate the ability to lead and coach the whole team to improve how change is delivered and unite a team with a clear, common purpose

Benefits

  • Whatever your role, Legal & General rewards ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after things that matter to you.

  • Our employees have a wide range of benefits including:

  • Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

  • A generous pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • 27 holiday days
  • Private medical insurance
  • Performance related bonuses
  • A variety of share schemes

Discounts on high street and our own great products

We’re one of the world’s largest insurance and investment management groups, with assets under management of £983bn (around $1.3 trillion) at 31 December 2017.
Established in London in 1836, we have been providing insurance for our customers for over 180 years. We now offer much more than just insurance and are one of the world’s top 20 asset managers.
With around…


We’re one of the world’s largest insurance and investment management groups, with assets under management of £983bn (around $1.3 trillion) at 31 December 2017.

Established in London in 1836, we have been providing insurance for our customers for over 180 years. We now offer much more than just insurance and are one of the world’s top 20 asset managers.

With around 7,000 employees we look after the financial security of over 10 million customers in the UK and US and manage investments for around 3,000 institutional clients.

Insurance
London
7,000 employees