Scrum Master

**Date live**:
07/01/2025
**Business Area**:
Private Bank Processing
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000032611
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
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/Basic Qualifications**:
Facilitating Scrum events such as sprints, daily scrums, and retrospectives.
Coaching team members in agile and scrum principles.
Working with product owners to manage the product backlog.
Assigning resources, planning projects, and setting milestones.
Removing roadblocks and obstacles that hinder the team's progress
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
**Coaching and Mentoring**: A Scrum Master needs to coach the Development Team, the Product Owner, and the organization. This involves active listening, empathy, and the ability to ask powerful questions that encourage self-discovery. They should also mentor team members in Agile practices and principles
**Communication Skills**: Excellent communication is fundamental for a Scrum Master. This includes being able to articulate ideas clearly, listen actively, and ensure that there is a shared understanding among team members and stakeholders
**Leadership and Empowerment**: Effective Scrum Masters lead by example and by service, promoting self-management within the team. They should empower the team to take ownership of their processes and decisions
**Continuous Improvement Mindset**: A Scrum Master should have a mindset focused on continuous improvement for the team and personal development.
They should lead by example and encourage the team to regularly reflect on their work practices and careers
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
To develop scrum principles and sprint goals aligned to industry best practices, and the banks objectives, to foster a high-performing technology team and support the successful progression on scrum projects.
Accountabilities
Management and fostering of a high performing engineering team, by providing high quality technical guidance and support to resolve complex challenges aligned to the banks technology practices, industry best practice and the banks business objectives.
Identification and implementation of process improvement initiatives to enhance the technology development process in an efficient and effect manner.
Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and innovations, actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.
Collaboration with business stakeholders, developers and other technology teams to ensure technology initiatives align with business objectives, security policies and regulatory requirements.
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
If 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.
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