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. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Join Company Barclays as a Scrum Master and play a pivotal role in driving agile delivery across complex technology and business initiatives. You will enable high-performing teams, foster collaboration, and ensure the successful execution of key programmes by removing obstacles and supporting continuous improvement.
To be successful as a Scrum Master, you should have experience with:
- Sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and release planning activities – ensuring effective delivery cadence and continuous team improvement
- Identify and remove delivery impediments – enabling teams to maintain productivity and achieve delivery objectives
- Workflow solution like jBPM/ BAMOE, knowledge of Java, knowledge of API and microservices and database SQL – supporting technical discussions and improving delivery outcomes
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Knowledge of Payment domain
- Knowledge of Deposit domain
- Coordinate dependencies across technology teams, business stakeholders, and supporting functions
