Scrum Master (Lending Tribe)

Join us at Barclays as a Scrum Master (Lending Tribe), where you’ll champion Agile principles to foster collaboration and drive continuous delivery. You'll facilitate Scrum events, clear blockers, and connect teams with key stakeholders to keep progress on track. 

To be successful as a Business Response Resilience Lead should have experience with:

 - A well-established background in Agile delivery, with a deep understanding of frameworks such as Scrum
 - Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master, ideally across multiple teams and complex delivery environments

 - Solid knowledge of financial services, with familiarity in areas such as banking, payments, or credit

Some other highly valued skills may include:

- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to guide productive discussions and foster collaboration 

 - Strong stakeholder engagement capabilities, building trusted relationships across technical and business teams

You may be assessed on the 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 in Glasgow.

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

• 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