Agile Delivery Executive

This role comes at a fantastic time for an established yet growing part of the business. Our staff put the customer first, and we encourage your suggestions on how we can continue to exceed their expectations while providing a market leading service.

About Admiral Money

Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral. 

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some exciting plans for the future.

We’re looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

The Role

At Admiral Money, we believe that understanding and engaging with our customers is central to everything we do. The way we gather, analyse and understand our customer data will be critical to the launch and success of our propositions. We believe that the right way to scale our business is to intelligently automate so that our amazing colleagues can focus on the value-add interactions with our customers and other stakeholders.

Analytics and Data sits within the Chief Lending Office and is comprised of four squads with seven disciplines; we're a big team with even bigger aspirations to evolve all of the capabilities in Data.  We are also asking this Scrum Master to take on the challenge of ensuring we create sustainable processes across the data disciplines that adhere to agile principles.  

The Scrum Master will be responsible for embedding and continuously improving our adoption of Agile across the Analytics and Data team.

Key Duties

• Your role will be to embed Agile ways of working into all squads across the Analytics and Data team.
• You will be responsible for managing all of the Agile ceremonies and artefacts as well as ensuring that blockers are cleared for the team
• A lot of colleagues are new to the business and new to Agile therefore, you will be there to upskill everyone.
• You'll not be alone, we have scrum masters in Admiral Money and in Admiral Group and you will also play a role in promoting Agile ways of working across Admiral Money.

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of Agile techniques and principles
• Good understanding of data and data technologies
• Good skills in Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of either direct line management or agile or waterfall project management 
• Experience of stakeholder management and communication - the ideal candidate will be able to speak to all levels of the organisation with concise and coherent progress updates that drive understanding of what we do.

Desirables

• Experience with working with Data teams
• Experience with leveraging cloud technologies and how we break down delivery in an Agile framework

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration

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