Scrum Master

Barclays

About 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. The role is based out of Pune.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
• Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback.
• 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.
• Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions.
• 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.
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders.
• Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong understanding of Scaled Agile and Scrum practices
• Excellent Communication & Stakeholder Facilitation
• Familiarity with Agile Tooling (JIRA) & Reporting Practices

Qualifications

• Ability to Drive Agile Mindset & Team Culture
• Understanding of Payments, Core banking, Liquidity / Corporate Banking Domain
• Experience working on programs with blockchain or distributed ledger technology.
• Ability to Work Across Multi‑disciplinary, Distributed POD Structures

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.