Scrum Master

Join us as a Scrum Master at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders.To be successful as a Scrum Master you should have experience with:

Essential Skills

• Well versed with the Agile methodologies and scaled agile concepts
• Managing Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies closely, across all aspects of the project. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, together with well-developed collaborative mindset.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively.
• Participate and skilled to run the releases.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
  

Desired Skills

• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Excellent communication skills.
  

You may be assessed on 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 is based out of Pune location.

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 outcomes