Foundation Scrum Master
Guildford, ENG, GB, GU2 8XG London, ENG, GB, SE1 9LQ
Foundation Scrum Master
Role Description
The purpose of the Foundation Scrum Master (FSM) role is to act as a servant leader to one Scrum team, normally within a wider scaled agile model. The FSM will use agile values, principles and practices to help the team to reach expected outcomes and continuously improve. The FSM role is often the first step in an agile professional’s journey and therefore the role works collaboratively with other change professionals. To support their development, the FSM will receive coaching from other Agile professionals.
This will be a hybrid role based in either our Guildford or London office, with occasional travel to meet clients expected.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £45,000 per year.
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
- Increase knowledge of and use agile methods and frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to support your Agile team and create a high energy, motivating environment to deliver their prioritised outcomes
- Ensure Agile events happen on agreed cadence, meet their designed purpose, are well planned, timeboxed and effective.
- Coach the Agile team to continuously demonstrate Agile values, align to principles and practices and improve their maturity, reaching out to other Scrum Masters for regular support to enhance your coaching ability. Help them understand the importance of metrics and ensure they capture and update core agile metrics (e.g. velocity, burndown) regularly. This will support with identifying issues and potential improvements.
- Seek to identify quickly and collaborate with others to remove the blockers and impediments that may affect the Agile teams’ progress and distract them from delivering their committed outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with the Product Owner assigned to the Agile team to ensure they are maintaining the backlog through refinement and visualising it effectively for the team and wider organisation
- Communicate effectively and be transparent with key stakeholders to support them in understanding the progress and challenges experienced by the team and help protect teams from uncontrolled expansion of work
- Encourage cross functional working and reduce silos by building strong relationships with other Scrum Masters to look for opportunities to identify dependencies, share best practices and identify support that can be shared across Agile teams and foster a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, emphasising problem-solving and continuous improvement.
Essential Skills
- Passion for and self-learned knowledge of Agile (Scrum, Kanban and SAFe)
- Experience within product, project or change delivery, preferably Agile
- May be new to team management but will have good experience and visibility of working within small teams across multiple locations and be competent in communicating with the team and day to day support
- Experience of resource management – requesting, evaluating and dealing with resource disruption on a small scale (up to 10 resources from one or two suppliers)
- Experience of financial and budget management for small change initiatives
- Experience within Financial Services, preferable Insurance.
- Passion for and working knowledge of Agile values, principles and practices
- Basic experience or knowledge of Agile tooling such as Jira and Confluence
- Strong relationship and trust building skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders.
- Highly organised with an eye for detail
- A self-starter with a thirst for knowledge and commitment to growth of themselves and others
We support the government scheme “Access to Work” please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.
Desirable Skills
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage
- Educated to degree level or relevant demonstrable business experience
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:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- 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
- Volunteering days
Our Ways of Working
Do you need 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.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Irvine
Closing date 14/4/2026
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
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