Scrum Master

Join us as Scrum Master at Barclays, where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. Youll harness cutting-edge technology to evolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Scrum Master you should have experience with:

• Experience as Scrum Master or Technical Delivery manager

• Prior hands-on working experience in Oracle database & Unix projects.

• Strong understanding of agile frameworks, including scrum & kanban.

• Strong experience working with Jira & confluence.

• Ability to facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Certified Scrum Master(CSM), professional scrum master(PSM) or equivalent certification required.

• Collections & Recovery knowledge or other Functional Banking knowledge

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.

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.

• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.

• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.

• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.

• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.

• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively.

• Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.