Allstate Northern Ireland Looking for Scrum Master (hybrid) at Northern Ireland Full Time

About Us

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight). Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance. 

Location

Belfast/ Derry-Londonderry/ Strabane

Your role in the team

We are excited to announce a new Scrum Master role opening within Allstate Business Insurance (ABI) at Allstate Northern Ireland to join our rapidly expanding team.

The successful candidate will work on the new ABI Transformative Growth product, CAP (Commercial Auto Product).   ABI has created CAP to focus on small businesses with less than five vehicles, creating a new and modern user experience for customers and agents on a new Duck Creek Technology platform.  The vision is to enable customers and agents to quote, bind and service commercial policies in a simple yet engaging way.

The Role

As a member of the ABI CAP Product Team, you’ll play a central role in making sure the entire team is enabled and empowered to get things done. The successful candidate will relish change, demonstrate drive to implement relentless improvement and enjoy working closely both with their own team and other Scrum Masters in the ART to overcome hurdles to meeting goals.  You’ll play a vital role in understanding the big picture, communicating dependencies, and ensuring impediments are addressed.

The Scrum Master is the facilitator and team level coach, a server leader in supporting teams to embrace, implement and adhere to Agile principles.  In this role, they will work across two teams on an ART, instilling and promoting Scrum processes and fostering an environment to build high performance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the teams in adoption and adherence to Agile principles, scrum events and team rules.
• Coach the teams in scrum values, empiricism, self-organization, cross functionality, and continuous improvement. Identify and act on opportunities for team growth.
• Exhibit servant leadership, supporting the teams to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.
• Facilitate team events, ensuring they are productive and kept within the timebox.
• Collaborate and partner within and beyond one’s teams, building productive relationships across the platform including with DevOps and Release Management.
• Understand the big picture, co-ordinate cross team dependencies and foster program collaboration.
• Undertake preparation and ensure team readiness for ART events including PI Planning, System Demos and the Inspect & Adapt.
• Fulfil responsibilities on the ART, coordinate inter team co-operation, including vendor teams, and help teams operate well on the train.
• Support the Product Owner in effective backlog management and ensure they know how to arrange the product backlog to maximize value.
• Support the teams in creating high value products by addressing and eliminating impediments blocking iteration goals
• Lead efforts in relentless improvement by using your knowledge of Agile anti patterns and problem-solving techniques to continually develop the teams.

So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

• All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK’
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a technical role,
• A minimum of 2+ years Scrum Master experience
• Has level of experience to effectively support 2 teams at the start of their Agile journey
• Demonstrated ability to influence and coach teams towards high performance in an Agile environment
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles, methodologies, reporting tools and techniques and the flexibility to adapt previous experience to new and evolving environments

We also have some desirable criteria

• Scrum Master certification; PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner
• Experience on an Agile Release Train
• Prior experience in software development.
• Experience with Agile concepts such as User Experience and Design Thinking.
• Experience in working with Software Vendors & Releases.
• Great interpersonal skills working in a team environment

What we offer

As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants.  This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 13th May 2022