Scrum Master

Job Title : Scrum Master
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:
As a Barclays Scrum Master you will have overall responsibility for coordinating and leading technology delivery teams to success; managing team backlog, removing impediments, facilitating scrum ceremonies and enabling the scrum teams to deliver through pace and quality metrics.

What will you be doing?
- Coaching teams to become self-organised and cross-functional
- Maximising the sustained output and quality of the teams
- Assisting the teams to continually improve and demonstrate tangible performance improvements through the use and interpretation of team metrics
- Maintaining and enhance team’s motivation
- Managing relationships and communication with all project stakeholders
- Coaching Product Owners and Teams in Agile values, practices, and rules
- Educating others outside the teams about how the Teams are working
- Removal of impediments to the teams’ progress; working with peers and colleagues across other teams and or functions, to leverage support
- Interlocking with project manager(s) to ensure delivery to plan and implications of any delay to dependent changes, sharing this holistic understanding with the rest of the scrum team
- Identifying, quantifying and defining mitigations for risks and issues that could impact delivery and ensure these are reported effectively

What we’re looking for:

- Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional or equivalent (i.e. Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance qualifications)
- Minimum 2-years’ experience of using Scrum, Kanban or a combination of both
- Experience of effecting organisational change to achieve agility
- A passion for learning - both yourself and see others grow
- Very strong interpersonal skills including facilitation

Skills that will help you in the role:
Preferred experience of software delivery within the e-commerce domain
- Technical knowledge, development experience
- Experience of changing governance models

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.