At Barclays, we don't just adapt to the future we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as Scrum Delivery Assistant Vice President, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our team. Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.
To be successful as a
Scrum Delivery Assistant Vice President
, you should have experience with:
- Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
- Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions.
- Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputies in the moment leadership, and drive high-performing team attributes.
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
- Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable and participating wider team initiatives on Change delivery and Jira metrics.
- Support Technology in whichever possible ways to keep delivery on track and constant connect to keep team motivation and participation in task completion and possible explosion to participate in technical guidance in Data pipeline using ETL and other tools,
- Cloud technology and data analytics is preferred for candidates.
Should keep Tech delivery commitments , pro-active communication , Right planning and replanning with agreed approaches , flexibility to support and ready to accept challenges to keep delivery on track .
- Change Request supports and LCT and approval to get delivery commitment met and ensure hygiene is maintained.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Good communications skills.
- Agile certifications.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.This role will be based in our Pune, India office.
Purpose of the role
Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.
Accountabilities
- Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
- Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
- Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
- Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise in the moment leadership, and drive high-performing team attributes
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
- Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomesIf the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others.OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
