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

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

Hybrid Working
BUK & BX - All locations

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:

- The Scrum master/PM will be responsible for the day to day activities of Agile feature teams to ensure each sprint is successfully managed from a time and quality perspective.
Championing agile ways of working, growing and promoting cultural best practices, such as backlog management, stories sizing

What will you be doing?
- Leading an agile feature team to deliver business value in a timely manner
- Run the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement and showcase sessions, retrosepctive
- Use continuous improvement techniques, tools and metrics to measure productivity and quality
- Maintain strong working relationships with internal business stakeholders, product owners, designers, dependent technology teams, Solution Architecture teams, test manager and release managers
- Focusing on improving and tracking feature team velocity and instil Agile best practice in the team working closely with agile coaches and engineering managers to achieve this
- Focus on scrum team efficiency and making sure tracking of key metrics is utilised correctly within the team
- Communicate directly with business analysts, project managers, and users understanding detailed business requirements at all stages of the SDLC
- Stakeholder management and Communication
- Communicate effectively with the internal IT development teams and the local development manager.
- Work closely with global team members in US, London, Prague, Glasgow, Chennai, Pune

What we’re looking for:

- 10+ years experience working in technology Change management area with minimum of 3-4 years as a

Scrum Master
- Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master
- Strong understanding of Agile, scrum and related methodologies
- Experience in working in an end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Strong analytical skills with data driven approach and ability to grasp technical design
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable presenting to large/senior

audiences
- Attention to detail and strong organisational skills
- Proactive and persistent in delating with impediments and seeking improvements
- Excellent understanding of Atlassian and issue management tooling such as Jira
- Strong Project Management skills (e.g. Planning, RAIDs, Stakeholder Management)
- Understanding of Agile, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies
- Ability to drive and facilitate workshops, working groups and forums with cross-functional people across the board
- Proven experience of operating in a matrix management framework
- 10+ years experience working in technology Change management area with minimum of 3-4 years as a

Scrum Master
- Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master
- Strong understanding of Agile, scrum and related methodologies
- Experience in working in an end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Strong analytical skills with data driven approach and ability to grasp technical design
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable presenting to large/senior

audiences
- Attention to detail and strong organisational skills
- Proactive and persistent in delating with impediments and seeking improvements
- Excellent understanding of Atlassian and issue management tooling such as Jira
- Strong Project Management skills (e.g. Planning, RAIDs, Stakeholder Management)
- Understanding of Agile, Kanban, Waterfall methodologies
- Ability to drive and facilitate workshops, working groups and forums with cross-functional people across the boar