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
1.Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
2.Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
3.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
4.Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
5.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
6.Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
7.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 – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Join us as a Platform Scrum Master at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of location strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
To be successful as a Platform Scrum Master you should have experience with:
Proven experience as a Scrum Master in Agile delivery environments.
Strong understanding of Scrum framework, Agile principles, and servant leadership.
Demonstrable experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching delivery teams.
Strong ability to identify and remove impediments and manage delivery risks and dependencies.
Hands‑on experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
Ability to apply Agile metrics to drive transparency and continuous improvement.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Experience working within large‑scale enterprise or regulated environments, preferably financial services.
Exposure to Scaled Agile (e.g. SAFe) or multi‑team delivery models.
Experience supporting technology, data, or platform engineering teams.
Agile certification(s) such as CSM, PSM, or SAFe Scrum Master.
Experience engaging with programme‑level governance, delivery, and risk forums.
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.